Their violence and knavery Leave not a church or living free.
And Tapsters wherever you be, Be sure you be ready to come at my call, And your Knavery here you shall see.
Wherein is Expressed their Villanous Out-rages to poor Men; With a true Description of their Knavery and their Debauch'd Actions; Prescribed and Presented to the view of all People.
You played to enable a friend to get back from a knave what he lost as a fool, and to punish the knavery that he could not well hope to reform.
I advise you to practise no suchknavery while waiting upon me," said Tressilian.
There is ever knavery in that laugh of thine, Varney.
He must surely know by this time that indulgences were sheer knavery and trickery.
The piece of arch-knavery practised by the Pope in himself announcing a Council against Emperor and Empire was, in fact, nothing new.
And knaveryis not the less knavery because it involves large interests, nor theft the less theft because it is countenanced by usage, or accompanied by failure in undertaken duty.
A contagion of knaveryran through the official life of the colony; and to resist it demanded no common share of moral robustness.
Knavery makes strange companions; and at the tables of high civil officials and colony officers of rank sat guests as boorish in manners as they were worthless in character.
Returning to Ireland and Mr. Moran, the vicious driver of vicious horses, the immediate consequence to him of this unexpected limitation to a pair of horses was, that all his knavery in one hour recoiled upon himself.
How many times,' said Edith, bending her darkest glance upon him' 'has your bold knavery assailed me with outrage and insult?
To have his confidence in his own knavery so shattered at a blow--to be within his own knowledge such a miserable tool--was like being paralysed.
The ease with which a rogue invites a gentleman to share in a knavery is astonishing; he must think his confidence confers an honour.
Paddy's oaths in his amours are generally rich specimens of humorous knavery and cunning.
The lawyer reminded me of my youth, and warned me against the knavery of mankind, who he affirmed are universally prone to prey upon one another.
Thus, when speaking of one of these imposters, Dante was right when he said[677] "he knew all the trickery and knavery of the magic art.
Add to those things all the knavery and artifice which the charlatans put in practice to deceive and delude the people, and then can we be surprised that they succeeded in imposing on them and gaining their belief?
With a knavery on my conscience, and a giddy-pated girl on my hands, and the doors of the London world open to me, I should scarcely have been capable of serious work.
I have gotten one of Doctor Faustus' conjuring-books; and now we'll have such knavery as't passes.
I thought 'twas your knavery to take it away: come, give it me again.
They have generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame.
When once the Chinese has got hold of the Tartar, he employs over him all the resources of the skilful and utterly unprincipled knavery of the Chinese character.
And the excellent creature threw up his eyes as he denounced the knavery of his townsmen.
The face was without any decisive character: it exhibited neither the mischievous knavery of the Chinese, nor the frank good-nature of the Tartar, nor the courageous energy of the Thibetian; but was made up of a mixture of all three.
The Dchiahours possess all the knavery and cunning of the Chinese, without any of their courtesy, and without their polished form of language, and they are accordingly feared and disliked by all their neighbours.
He seems quite to forget that in every country the traveller is, and must be, a mark for knavery and cheating.
Then I went into the markets, where I saw petty knavery In false-measuring corn, and in scales, That wanted no less than two ounces in the pound.
But the world is so full of knavery now, That we know not whom to trust, I may say to you.
As who should say his knavery and my policy did agree.
But there is deceit, and knavery too, in thy fellow that is called Usury.
The stars above us twinkle and the dews beneath us blink, All the eyes of Nature sparkle, and from merriment do not shrink, The Language of the Eye of Cynic Knavery is--the Wink!
After such a vision, it is useless to relate any others: they are all a species either ofknavery or folly.
But the priest Samuel was irritated at having wrested from him the sceptre which his knavery had obtained.
On the other hand, might it not have been the priests of Dagon, who resorted to this knavery from the motive already pointed out?
If he had possessed more faith and less sense, he would have seen the piety and completely overlooked the knavery of the transaction.
He was the power of public opinion, making itself felt in this place of knavery and fear!
So far from allaying Fraeulein Milch's anxieties, he rather increased them by the satisfaction with which he dwelt upon the consummate knavery of this Adams.
Eric was incensed that Knopf should have brought Adams at all; but Knopf told how he had met the negro on the way to the Villa, and, with an air of triumph, went on to tell what a model of knavery the fellow was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knavery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
