I have often heard it said that the biggest rogues and the worst characters in our army make the best soldiers when it comes to the push, but facts contradict this.
According to certain authors of a great experience in subtle rogues he was in this affair, half knave, half fool, as it is abundantly proved by this narrative.
Thinking that rogues without money would certainly look grave, he prepared a supper worthy of a canon, wishing even to see them drunk, in order the more easily to clap them in jail in the event of an accident.
Approaching nearer, a din of shouts, chaunts, and laughter, saluted our ears, for the rogueswere evidently making merry over their potations.
I thought you would like to know who the real rogues were, and that Charles Hawermann--God be thanked!
The rogues have confessed, and we've got the money, part of it at least.
But when the cunning Brownies get Their mind on some maneuver set, Nor wind nor flood, nor frost nor fire Can ever make the rogues retire.
But stars at length began to wane, And dawn came creeping through the pane; And, much against the will of all, The rogues were forced to leave the hall.
For I know you to be one of the greatest rogues in the colony.
And though he saved their tills from plunder from the French, the miserly rogues are loth to pay for the service.
The rogues sat up the whole of the night before the day on which the procession was to take place, and had sixteen lights burning, so that everyone might see how anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit.
The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the rogues pretended to array him in his new suit; the Emperor turning round, from side to side, before the looking glass.
And "rogues and vagabonds" infest the Town, Far cheaper 'tis to save than crack a crown.
None of these rogues and cowards But Ajax is their fool.
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs?
Two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits.
Rogues and rascals, brutes in human form, and human forms that are harking back to the brute abound also.
You are not, I take it, about to urge any reasons why these rogues should not be committed?
So long as rogues are countenanced in one direction they will be found in others.
It was a notorious place in the seventeenth century, filled with rogues and broken-down gamblers, spendthrifts and profligates.
Like Whitefriars, and for the same reason, it claimed the right of Sanctuary: therefore it became the harbour of people described as 'rogues and masterless men.
A large and very interesting collection of books might be formed on the subject of rogues and vagabonds.
Alsatia~: for a vivid picture of this haunt of rogues in the reign of James I.
They not only carried criminals in shameful procession through the City, but they flogged girls for idleness, apprentices for immorality, and rogues for selling goods falsely described.
In the year 1575, for instance, it is reported that there were few or norogues in the London prisons.
In one respect however, there is no change: we have always with us the same rogues and the same roguery.
And firstly of the first I said, "We have rogues to deal with; but try we not to rogue them.
All rogues are fools,' was my first copy, beginning of the alphabet.
I believed that Lorna was in the churchyard, while these rogues were lying to me.
Moreover, I remembered my promise to sweet Lorna; and who would be left to defend her, if the roguesgot rid of me?
I felt my spirit rise as I asked; for now I had crossed Exmoor so often as to hope that the people sometimes deserved it, and think that it might be a lesson to the rogueswho unjustly loved the mutton they were never born to.
Then they actually opened our stable-doors, and turned our honest horses out, and put their own rogues in the place of them.
Since by all the laws of average, when millions of men are wearing a uniform, there must be some rogues in it.
For all that it was merely Radbolt money now, in the end Beaumaroy could not stomach the idea of that--the idea that either of the dirty rogues in there should get off with the money.
When the three rogues saw the cooked meats, and the tart in the oven, and heard Nina's words, they were nearly beside themselves with amazement, and began to consult at once how they were to get the goat into their own possession.
Hardly had Simon said these words when the three rogues appeared and fell on him to kill him.
The rogues were more amazed than ever; they forgot their anger, and buying the pipe for two hundred gold pieces, they went joyfully home.
An hour had scarcely passed when the three rogues returned to the place where they had left Simon in the sack, and without opening it, one of them seized it and threw it into the river.
Well, so I did; and just answer me this: Is not all the work of this world done by rogues and vagabonds?
Why was n't I satisfied to bring you up in my own station, with rogues and swindlers for daily associates?
But thou canst travel on Sundays to lead rogues into lurking-holes.
These be but two," he said, "and to my knowledge three rogues came hither last night.
Once masters of Paris, the charlatans and rogues that composed the Commune hoped to become the rulers of France.
After the siege it had endured, the state of agitation and prostration resulting from so great a struggle, so much suffering, and so many deceptions, could not fail to attract the leading charlatans and rogues of all parts of Europe.
About some three yeares since there were certayne rogues in Barkeshire which usually frequented certaine shipcoates every night.
Ther be pasport-makers that are as verry rogues as any justice rogues, noble rogues; all that live out of the communion of the Churche are noe better than rogues and vagabonds in the eye [?
I'll make you an example to all rogues under the sun.
Never mind their hurting your wrists, young Hempseed," chuckled one of the scaldpated constable rogues who was guarding us.
Here are two guineas to put into the plate next Sunday; and let no rogues cozen you out of it.
We want all these rogues to hang up at Aylesbury Gaol.
Thus the ocean would be crowded with rogues like the land.
She said that were it put to the choice of the pirates, they would not have the punishment less than death; for it was only the fear of death which kept many dastardly rogues honest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
