Bruised and bleeding, but still defying, I turned in wrath on that dastardly rabble; they slunk away from my path.
Years have passed since the time of that dastardly crime, But the victim's intangible shade Can be seen to this day, so the villagers say, In diaphanous garments arrayed.
An' what air ole Santy hisself but a robber o' the meanest an' most dastardly sort?
So, for the time, Carlos Santander had escaped the brand of infamy due to his dastardly act.
There was something eminently mean and dastardly in the deed.
On a certain afternoon in the expiring year, just when it was growing dusk, St. Just received instructions to repair to the appointed spot, and perform his part in the dastardly conspiracy.
The man who committed this dastardly crime is still at large, and, for all we know, may be in our midst.
Here is a great chance for some of our detectives to render themselves famous, and we feel sure that they will do their utmost to trace the author of this cowardly and dastardly murder.
To desert you would be flagitious and dastardlybeyond all former acts; yet to stay with you is to contract the disease, and to perish after you.
To shut this spectacle from my view was the first impulse; but to desert this man, in a time of so much need, appeared a thankless and dastardly deportment.
The very people he had imagined to be so stupidly wanting in astuteness, who had failed to suspect him, had defeated his dastardly attempt with surprising ease.
In five minutes those bombs with which the dastardly Carl hoped to wreck the vessel would explode.
Show him that you clearly apprehend that all this warfare means peace, and that a dastardly peace would pave the way for speedy, incessant, and more appalling warfare.
It is the very spirit of the slaveholder, a dastardly and detestable, a tyrannical and cruel spirit.
I can scarcely believe such dastardly cowards are alive.
Though British officers, not a few, have been victims to fanaticism in India, no Englishwoman had ever been shot at before, and the strong feeling aroused by so dastardly a crime had been long in subsiding.
That the Rebel authorities were cognizant of, and encouraged, this dastardly plot, cannot be distinctly proven.
You are a dastardly liar, sir,' responded Hartley.
In fact the innocent victim of this dastardly plot was completely deserted, and the little party of her friends was by no means a match for the large and godly hosts who charitably combined to establish her guilt.
Be then his Love accurst, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe.
This was but the first of a series of dastardly outrages.
The annihilation of the dastardly plot to wreck the city was complete.
If you will send some one to assist me, and allow me to act as I think fit, I will frustrate their dastardly design, and the city shall be saved.
Not only do the anarchists and nihilists look upon Paris as their Mecca; but other scoundrels working out nefarious plans for wicked governments also meet here to lay their dastardly plots.
Yet surely the plotters must know that, between good friends like Britain and America, it would take more than the mere sinking of a British ship to make the English suspect us, as a nation, of being involved in such a dastardly plot.
The events of the past hours had prepared him for this scene, and he had had only a brief vision in semi-darkness, whilst everything had been carefully prepared to blind him completely by this dastardly trick.
Jealousy and hatred, which had raged within her, had readily fastened on Ursula Glynde as the cause, if not the actual perpetrator of the dastardly crime.
Matthew the while, still the ringleader of this dastardly crew, was directing these gruesome operations.
From behind a bank of clouds the pale, crescent moon suddenly emerged and threw a faint silvery light on the now deserted scene of the dastardly outrage.
Pray, my lord, what is your definition of a dastardly trick?
I have to call the guard and have you all whipped for a set of dastardly cowards, eh?
I'll not allow a pure woman's reputation to be sullied by any dastardly trick .
Meseems that some dastardly trick hath been played upon us all.
To open and read another's letters is a low and dastardly act, but she believed that Lady Caroline would do it like a shot.
A deep, dangerous, dastardlystripling this, who fought to win and only to win.
It seemed to them that it was now clearly their duty to assist in the running down of a criminal who had made such a dastardly attack upon one of their best friends.
Our destruction is to be accomplished, not by open warfare, but by the delusive and dastardly pretence of neutrality.
No one apparently had seen Chapin’s dastardly play, so that the cause of the defeat was very generally ascribed to Tony’s fumbling.
He clenched his fists and drove them into the pillows, longing that his fingers were about Chapin’s throat and that he might choke out of him a confession of his dastardly betrayal.
He died before I was born, I suppose, but I have always thought that perhaps he was not so much to blame--not in any dastardly way, I mean.
What would be, at least, generosity and courage in you, would be selfish and dastardly in me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dastardly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
