Handmade murder has no place in melodrama; all reputable scoundrels do their killing by machinery.
I would that you had had the scoundrels in a row, so that one bullet would have killed the lot!
It was plain enough to all of us that the scoundrels had drilled out the touch-holes again, and that during the night they would be planted, and the first discharge would drive down all our defences, and leave us open to a rush.
Then we gave a cheer, and with hearts bounding with excitement, down we rushed upon the scoundrels to give them their first taste of the bayonet, cutting Captain Dyer and two more men out, just as the other two went down.
After all, could it be true that two cleverer scoundrels had combined to work Weegman as a dupe?
He said it would merely hasten the crash if we let the scoundrels know they were suspected.
He's one of those egotistical scoundrels who can easily be flattered and fooled into doing scurvy work for a keener mind.
I chased him down into one of his haunts, and caught him, but was set upon by half a dozen scoundrels who overpowered me.
Nothing those two scoundrels have anything to do with will turn out right," declared Mary's uncle.
As Mr. Baxter guessed, the letter delivered to him at Tom's place was one that the two scoundrels would have retained, as they had others like it, if they had seen it.
I'll get the scoundrels who stole my secret formulae that I worked over so many years!
So now I have direct evidence--just what I wanted--and I can get on the trail of the scoundrels who have cheated me of my rights.
We've the best vintages of London Docks," grinned the happy host, as he sped away and left the two scoundrels alone.
They were cheerfully discussing two steaming "grogs," but there was doubt and a shifty lack of thorough confidence between the two scoundrelsas yet.
Some of the scoundrels had taken the alarm and fled, seeing the lights of the other party moving up from the pier.
I would hunt these scoundrels down without one cent reward.
He was not very strong when he once more took it upon himself to hunt down the scoundrels who had wrecked his happy home.
I wish I had one good man with me to help hunt thesescoundrels down.
The scoundrels have discovered that I am on the trail, and they mean to put me out on the first base, if possible.
Secondly, Delhi it was that opened the horrors of retribution; mark what chastisement it was that alighted from the very first upon all the scoundrels who sought, and fancied they could not fail to find, an asylum in Delhi.
More than one amongst the ladies, in this hideous struggle, have shot down their two brace of black scoundrels apiece.
He studied the lives of professing Christians, and found that those who claimed the greatest piety were the sorriest scoundrels in the land.
The scoundrels were kept close prisoners during the whole voyage to France, while my lot was made as light as possible, under the severe sentence awarded at San Luis.
These adroit scoundrels rove the country in search of objects to suit different patrons.
Plenty of scoundrels have been sent to the galleys for less than that, but the courts won't concern themselves with a wife-beater.
When one of those scoundrels gets his monkey up on discovering an old love leading a happy life he becomes capable of everything.
Yes, his handicraft returned to him at the moment of croaking; and if he yelled so loud, if he fought on his roof, it was because ugly scoundrels were preventing him doing his work properly.
Why should I be held up in this God-forsaken place because a couple of scoundrelsgot their just deserts?
These skulking scoundrels have sadly got the start of us.
I hope the scoundrels won't catch him, anyhow, and I pity him if they do.
Nakhodka--who those scoundrels are who distribute criminal proclamations and books in the factory, eh?
We are all scoundrels toward one another, that's what I say.
The Little Russian swayed his body, and with a broad smile on his face was about to say something, when the irritating voice of Nikolay again rang out: "This is the first time we have seen scoundrels here!
The scoundrels must have tied me as tight as they knew how.
Before have I permitted scoundrels to live, only to suffer and to have you suffer for my mercy.
I have little reason to trust two such scoundrels as you and Rokoff, you know.
Then I went on to tell him to look out for Motor Matt, and explained that he was in cahoots with the three desperate scoundrels who had stolen the ten thousand in 'Frisco.
It seems strange that Merton should have a hand in anything like that, or that he should be mixed up with this gang of scoundrels at all.
But still deeper was the feeling they had against the scoundrels who had chosen that cowardly way of attempting to injure Joe.
But it makes me boil not to be able to put the scoundrels behind prison bars.
You remember what hard work we had to save the League last year, and how we had to forego punishing the scoundrels in order to keep every inkling of the gamblers' scheme from the public.
My blood fairly boiled when I saw those scoundrels in the stand this afternoon.
I'm going to get even with those scoundrels before we leave Pittsburgh.
These scoundrels spied us, With one eye reading our passport, With the other ogling our purse.
Tis for the traitorous and cowardly conduct of thesescoundrels that the great Queen is miserable, knowing not who to trust.
Who are those blackguardly scoundrels in the fowl run?
If only these scoundrels of tradesmen would leave us alone for a spell, we might get things going properly.
Add in a postscript that I consider that the manufacturer of the thing ought to rent a padded cell at Earlswood, and that they are scoundrelsfor palming off a groggy machine of that sort on me.
If these scoundrels had no mercy to share to their own what hope was there for him?
And if you were in my place how would you, I wonder, treat those scoundrels who attempted to kill you--eh?
The secret agent of British diplomacy, shrugging his shoulders and with a grin, said: "The scoundrelsare terrorising the Emperor and the whole Imperial family.
I answered, "No; if any one of those scoundrels who has deserted me ever dares show his face to me again, I will shoot him like a dog.
But there, you see I can do nothing until we have driven these scoundrels back, and then--we shall see.
Well, you can stop some of these scoundrels throwing these abominable spears.
The door of the inn was soon unbolted, and before any of the household could hurry to the spot, the pair of scoundrels were already outside in the bleak night air, and hailing his lordship's carriage, which now drew up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoundrels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
