Such rascality on the part of the negroes is more discouraging than caterpillars and drought.
The speculators reaped the richest harvest; and it is hard to decide whether to be amused or annoyed at the childish and transparent rascality of the French Creoles.
The courts rapidly lost their power, and the worst people, both Americans and Creoles, practised every kind of rascality with impunity.
The wisdom is sometimes hidden; modesty covers it up, and if the rascality is always apparent it is my frankness that holds it up to view.
The chevalier tried to conceal his cards, but Edouard did not give him time; he snatched them from his hands, realized the rascality of which he had been the victim, overturned the table and informed the marquis that he should not pay him.
We have been detained here a whole day, through a chain of accidents, all resulting from the rascality of our muleteers on leaving Aleppo.
What story of grim, desperate rascalitywould the papers credit him with when daylight came?
Then the yacht settled down for the run to Port Said, and arrived at that sunlit abode of rascality on the first of November.
The barefaced impudence, the open rascality of the demand, would have made the blood boil in the veins of any less even-tempered man than John Dawes.
He was, in fact, as happy as the day was long, and felt almost fraternal when he thought of Anstey, remembering that but for that worthy's rascality he would not be here now.
To-day honesty wears rags, and rascality and idleness wear robes.
I rejoice, as an Englishman, that I have done my share for nearly thirty years to expose in Europe, America, and Asia the systematic rascality of my aristocratic and plutocratic countrymen.
It sells rascalityon time and tells all the devils they can have the benefit of the gospel bankrupt act.
If he allows rascality to succeed in this world, why not in the next?
At central Tura, where we encamped, we had evidence enough of the rascality of the Wakimbu of Tura.
I do not know as yet what my partners' rascality may have cost me, but I am not a wealthy man, and the business may spell ruin.
Nor is it so much out of place as might at first appear, to class both phases of rascality under one general heading.
All the while, however, it is to be feared that the sporting newspaper of the present day reveals the existence of really more mischief, more substantial immorality and rascality than ever appeared in their pages before.
Moreover, the whole Irish estates are likely to come to ruin; for nothing prevails but rascality among the English soldiers, impotence among the governors, and rebellion among the natives.
That was more than my professional meekness could endure, so I reproached him with his rascality and abuse of hospitality towards me, adding that I expected he would now repay me what he had so unceremoniously taken from me while I was asleep.
Then there was Pea-green Haynes, who was also a fine sample of folly andrascality mingled.
Byron had lived in the degraded London of the Regency, when Europe's rascality flocked towards St. James's as belated birds flock towards a light; and he should have known some villains if any one did.
But it also proved to the hilt the rascalityof Carl Reitberg.
I had a deep satisfaction in the thought, that the rascality of slaveholders was not concealed from the eyes of the world, and that I was not alone in abhorring the cruelty and brutality of slavery.
If only she knew all about her father and his rascality and was livin' with us because she wanted to--if that was the way of it, it would be so different.
We should have to give up our trip, stop sightseeing, stop everything we had planned to do, and turn ourselves into nurses running a sanitarium for the benefit of a girl whose father's rascality made your father a pauper.
Perhaps the stud at Seton Manor was merely intended to cover Copley's rascality in another direction.
It would be a fine thing to go to Copley with the evidence of his rascality in plain black and white, and agree to silence on the condition that this persecution of Miss Haredale ceased.
Besides, Fielden, to some extent, was in league with Aaron Phillips, and if there was anything in the way of rascality afoot, it might be possible to detect it.
The matter was one that had been brought to the attention of the Department under other Secretaries, but no detection of rascality had followed.
A contractor, whose rascality had been conclusively exposed and whose contract had been unceremoniously annulled, came to him one day to remonstrate.
