It is in interesting relation to the knaves of a pack of cards to note the curious conservatism which has belonged to them during the last four centuries and a half.
Presarve the Sergeant's daughter before all things, and leave these Mingo knaves to the Sarpent and me.
Three of the knaves are actually getting into the canoe!
Now let them Mingo knaves cock their rifles and get rests, for this is the last chance they are likely to have at a man without a cover.
Stand you behind the tree, Magnet, lest the knaves take it into their heads to fire a broadside without a parley, and I will soon learn what colors they sail under.
And the Mingo imp paid for his curiosity, as theseknaves are about to do.
In the first place, I very well know that the soldiers of the 55th are not the lads to overtake Iroquois in the woods; and the knaves did not wait to be surrounded when they knew that Jasper had reached the garrison.
Yet ruined fools are highly pleased To see the knaves that bit 'em squeezed, Forgetting where the money flies That cost so many tears and sighs.
Hanging would be a fit punishment for knaves like you.
The anonymous dramatist, after having depicted in beautiful and touching scenes the sweet virtues and good deeds of St. Joachim and St. Ann, brings on the stage two knaves who wish to make experiments on their pious simplicity.
He says that in general they were not much better than knaves and atheists.
Shall I not censure breach of trust, Because knaves know themselves unjust?
A gang of petty knavesattend 'em, With proper parts to recommend 'em.
Were they denied their proper tools, How could they lead their knaves and fools?
Some, who the spoil of knaves were made, Too late attempt to learn their trade.
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore The thriving knaves that keep them poor.
Whene'er the gaming board is set, Two classes of mankind are met: But if we count the greedy race, The knavesfill up the greater space.
You'll find at last this maxim true, Fools are the game which knaves pursue.
Even virtue's self by knaves is made A cloak to carry on the trade; And power (when lodged in their possession) Grows tyranny, and rank oppression.
Had he the use of ears and eyes, Knaves would no more be counted wise.
It is in my mind that I told these knaves what my lordly will was, forsooth; and the words came to me in our old Danish tongue, so that it was hard not to use it.
Pick the poor knaves from under the stone and timber, and see to them.
Then today four poor knaves must go dinnerless by reason of my strength, and that does not please me altogether," said Havelok gravely.
Sir Knight," cried the girl, as she saw the three knavesrushing to the aid of their master.
This is even such another drivel As was here whilere: They be two knaves anointed.
I have patted them, In twenty gobbets I should have squatted them, To teach theknaves to come near the snout Of Tediousness!
But e'en, as against such a thing my heart will throb, I found knaves about my house, ready me to rob.
A gentleman comes in at the doors, That all his days hath worn gilt spurs, And none of these knaves nor cutted whores Bids him welcome to house!
I will no more go to Coventry, For there knaves set me on the pillory, And threw eggs at my head So sore that my nose did bleed Of white wine gallons thirty.
I am aghast That other knaves will come thither Before us and take up all.
This bag have I kept of other sectorships whole, Which the mad knaves would have scattered by penny dole.
Queen, 'if God in His Heaven would have me make a peace with Rome, wherefore will He not give victory over a parcel of Lutheran knavesand swine?
Since shared by knavesof high and low degree; Cromwell and Cataline: Guido Faux, and thee.
Hit bycometh for clerkus Crist for to serven; And knaves uncrounede To cart and to worche.
Ac of this matere No more mene ich nelle, He was in the halyday After heten wayten, They care noght thauh it be cold Knaves wen thei worchen.
To-morrow theknaves would cheer just as lustily if we were driven from the town.
But now 'tis age and a troubled mind that irks me, besides this pestering sort of knaves that live by the law.
There be none but knaves there, and none but fools to trust them.
My name is Timon: knaves begone, Curse me, but come not near my stone.
So you shall, my boy," he answered, "if we can only cheat those confounded knaves of Equity.
Riotous knaves in West England, drunken outlaws, you shall dance, if ever I play pipe for you.
For when there is no contest at home, unnumbered knaves will be found at Rome to dig up contests out of the earth and assail livings at their will.
Every city could support its own poor, and if it were too small, the people in the surrounding villages also should be exhorted to contribute, since in any case they have to feed so many vagabonds and knaves in the guise of mendicants.
This is a device of the knaves who would like, under the pope's name, to be lords of the world, and by means of the pope and the name of Christ, to restore the Roman Empire to its former state.
Some mad knaves took tobacco all the way as they went to be hanged at Tyburn.
A detachment of the guards, fifty strong, was ordered to do duty at the theatre nightly, and "thus deterred the saucy knaves from carrying their threats into execution.
He hastened the preparation of supper, and in every way seemed bent on making us comfortable; sending his knaves to and fro with a hearty good-will, which showed that whoever stood in awe of them, he did not.
It is a pity a few more knaves are not where that one is,' he continued sourly, pointing through the open door.
The knaves lowered their weapons and shrank back cowering before him.
In this way, the knaves with me being stout and some of them used to the work, we retreated in good order and without hurt as far as the end of Shoe Wynd.
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I would have none but knavesfollow it, since a fool gives it.
Truly, ay, my liege; and they make them dear to us too, ere we can settle with the knaves for the least blood wit.
The survivors will be humbled, and will be more obedient to a whisper of your Grace's pleasure than their fathers, or the knaves that now exist, have, been to your strictest commands.
And I," said the Earl of March, "could only perceive that the stout citizens of Perth had in chase some knaves who had assumed the Bloody Heart on their shoulders.
Here are a sort of knaves breaking peace within burgh," said Henry to the neighbours who began to assemble; "make after the rogues.
Here, on ordinary days, his furnace was seen to blaze, and four half stripped knaves stunned the neighbourhood with the clang of hammer and stithy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
