Ain't itroguery to snare partridges and to catch fish, for the matter o' that?
We have seen from the first that the whole movement was originated in roguery and sustained by roguery, and we see that it is carried on by roguery.
Shall we truckle to Rome, shall we become slaves to Popish knaves, shall we become subservient to priestcraft and lying and roguery and trickery?
But vice and roguery compel the haughty aristocrat to address the lowest ruffian as an equal.
Or is it your pleasure to manufacture roguery for exportation, as the French do politeness, and the Irish linen?
Carnegy knows the roguery as well as the rest; though I did not hear any thing of his scruples.
And if the policy of these extraordinary measures can be defended, it must be admitted that they were the direct cause of more roguery than would compensate for an immense amount of good.
He dared not run the risk of taking it to the United States, lest his roguery should be discovered through some flaw in his papers, and his vessel and cargo seized by revenue officers.
The parties to the negotiation were pretty well matched, for royal roguery had to contend with Scotch cunning.
I wish sincerely some good-natured fellow would lay to my charge a little roguery that I had no share in.
A delinquent there is, and we ever shall scout him, For roguery never would flourish without him.
Which, when he of his courtesy willingly did, he gave the longed-for opportunity to Oliver to bring into the world the piece of roguery of which he had long been in labour.
He combines in admirable proportions, making a perfect whole, the humbug of the old soldier and the sly roguery of the Norman.
For we hoped that the Roman knavery and the roguery of the monks and priests would be amended.
Chapman, from whom I had a letter two days ago, thinks that it is the stock and not the copyrights that Curry is now negotiating, but he owns himself baffled by the roguery of this conduct.
It must be a dreadful situation for any man to have to choose between roguery and indigence.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Every species of rascaldom was there represented, and the noble sport afforded a lawful outlet for roguery in every shape--for roguery in broadcloth as well as roguery in fustian.
In his crusade against knavery, he became acquainted with the unmitigated roguery that was practised under the protection of the institution which, with a grim and ghastly humour, has been denominated the great national sport.
But I do not deceive myself when I say that I have a hearty contempt for roguery and meanness, and that I have a horror of blasphemy and the profaning of human and divine things.
He knows well enough that many of his transactions will not bear the light, and that in some instances a boundary line within which roguery can safely trade had been overstepped.
For, notwithstanding the honest and upright manner in which the national sport is carried on, strange and unaccountable occurrences do sometimes happen; roguery does occasionally triumph.
But even their roguery was more tolerable than the irksome restraint which their near vicinity, and constantly having to come in contact with them, imposed.
Late home, and what with business and my boy's roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed.
Yes, I should rather think that roguery would not be apt to prosper, while the execution of the laws was intrusted to such a man.
He canst haf no title but his landlort's, and it vould be roguery and cheatery to let a man get into der bossession of a farm under der pretence of hiring it, und den come out und claim it as owner.
Although a colleague of the squatter's in what is only too apt to be considered a venal roguery in a new country, or in the stealing of timber, it did not at all comport with the scale of his rascality to menace a man's life.
This species of roguery is called the pinch, or pinching lay.
A spirit of graceful roguery is very prevalent among Servian girls.
The spirit of rogueryand joviality, which prevails in them all, proves that they are more the overflowings of wild and unrestrained youth, than the fruits of dissoluteness of manners.
