A wily survivor spots its trick and addresses it from a distance.

At that point, Mr. Weill had essentially outmaneuvered Mr. Reed, a view held by many at the company and on Wall Street, although one that Mr. Reed, a wily corporate survivor, might not have shared.

Walter did not actually realize what was happening until very late in the game, but he was a wily old survivor, tell ya true, and when understanding came, it came entire.

More than anything else, La Poncia is a wily survivor.

And Blunt the wily survivor, keenly sensitive to the slightest ripples of trouble.

When Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco, the wily survivor of dozens of electoral contests, heard the other day that Bob Dole had decided to campaign extensively in California despite the long odds against him here, he knew it could mean only one thing.

The answers Mr. Putin provided appeared intended to dispel his image as a wily survivor who is determined to rebuild Russia's influence and might.

According to Dr. James Earl Kennamer, a biologist in Edgefield, S.C., these wary and wily survivors took refuge in remote and largely inaccessible areas, like the swamps near Mobile, Ala., and the mountains of Pennsylvania.

She is only 16, and the laughter and the tears come bubbling out of her, but she is also a survivor, wily enough to know that nearly four minutes of skating were not quite enough.

Janeway suspected that Neelix probably had a weapon concealed on his person as well; the little Talaxian was too much of a wily survivor to go into an unknown environment unarmed.