Mayhap it would have been better to have brained the knave on the spot--but a man can but do his best.
Absolutely Oriental as his outlook was, so far as marriage was concerned, he yet wondered, vaguely, if he were fool or knave in acting as he did.
What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale Make a woman believe?
I forgot to tell you, the knave gardener, Only to raise his profit by them the sooner, Did ripen them in horse-dung.
Could it be that he should suppose that one whom he had a few days since described as the biggest knave he knew should be so changed by a few words well written and well pronounced?
On the contrary, the more he raved, denouncing the brig as a humbug, and the man who sold her to him as a knave and a swindler, the more the brig leaked.
One night an unprincipledknave undertook to rob us while we slept.
My knave tells me," said the knight, "that you are a servant of the King's.
Trust to Him: and if this knave does but support his charge, perhaps your lance may be the avenging instrument of Heaven.
I have often fancied, indeed, that the knave had learned more than he divulged to me.
Sir Philip Beauchamp, with the blood coming up into his withered cheek; and the next moment, in the midst of an insolent reply, he struck the knave in the face with his clenched fist, knocking him backwards all bloody on the ground.
Have him watched night and day; for I now know who he is; and a more dangerousknave there does not live.
The villain will doubtless deny all, for he is a hardened knave as ever lived; but we can convict him notwithstanding.
It cannot be shown that a man is a knave merely for owning that stock.
Fraud is the clubbish knave, and Usury the hard-hearted knave, And Simony the diamon' dainty knave, And Dissimulation the spiteful knave of spade.
Why, and I am not bound to thee so far as knave go, And therefore, in despite of thee and thy cousin, there thy letters be.
And you deal with him, sirs, you shall find him a knave full of spite.
I like such a knave so can tickle them all, To set noblemen at brabble and brawl.
Usury, of all old fellowship, let this poor knave pack, if the matter be not too heinous.
Nay, you will scant fare well By that time I have done: but I must about my business, To find some knack to know this knave at large.
I am afraid yon foolish knavehave belaid the streets for us.
The next knave is a priest, call'd John the precise, That with counterfeit holiness blinds the people's eyes.
Not that there wants company, but honest company, I mean; Yet Honesty can clap a knave on the shoulder for all his bravery.
I not a knave for the nonce, That can despatch two errands at once?
What's the matter, Usury, that this poor knavecries so?
Some outlander--some Greek--they call the knave George the Slavonian.
With Walter things be far different: he might be stopped and searched by any suspicious knave who saw him pushing forth into the river.
Seest thou not that if gold were my desire I have but to discover the place where the treasure lies to some stalwart knave sworn to do my bidding, and all would be mine?
An ill-conditioned knave as ever I did see," growled Blunt, glaring after him.
Thou art a hare-brained knave as ever drew breath of life," quoth Gascoyne, "and will cause me to come to grief some of these fine days.
He's but a dull-brained dolt; though knave enough for that, or anything else.
By the time we should get our vagabonds in their saddles, and ride back, every knave of them would be gone.
You mind that knave boatswain who still scoffed and swore at thy prayers, Elder, and so grievously flouted the first who fell sick among you?
Thou hast no right to avow that, Will, and I were but a sorry knave to believe it.
It must then have been the milksop himself in some puling fit of pain or illness; and ably must the beggarly knave have managed it when he succeeded in changing the stern and flinty heart of such a she-devil.
Not in the parlor," said his mistress; "a strolling knavelike him.
In former times Rome was generous, and then justice had either to be bought or else suppressed with money, but now she has become exorbitant, and no one dare be a knaveunless with a great sum he has first bought the right.
Do you call an author a knave or a cheat who records them?
I suppose that we are to think every man a knave till he is proved not to be such.
He says that I am either a knave or a fool, and (as we shall see by and by) he is not quite sure which, probably both.
Knave I am, andknave I must be to the end of the chapter!
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove;[41-2] that is, more knave than fool.
And ye shall understand, that Mahomet was born in Arabia, that was first a poor knave that kept camels, that went with merchants for merchandise.
And if they have any knave child they keep it a certain time, and then send it to the father when he can go alone and eat by himself; or else they slay it.
The knave yonder said that fire from heaven had fallen upon them; I hope that they be burned to ashes, as were the dwellers in Sodom.
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