Napoleon thought him a " shifty Byzantine," and called him the Talma of the North, as ready to play any conspicuous part.

Louis of Francis was succeeded by the active, warlike and shifty ~~1i 1.

Charles Emmanuel achieved a great reputation as a statesman and warrior, and increased the prestige of Savoy, but he was too shifty and ingenious, and his schemes ended in disaster.

The more loyal William Douglas, in 1353, slew his kinsman, the shifty Knight of Liddesdale, on the braes of Yarrow, and a fragment of one of the oldest Scottish ballads deplores his fall.

Bruce, previously so shifty, had never wavered or turned back since he smote the Red Comyn at Dumfries.