A third time she was sacked by Ricimer her own general; and then morevillains ruled her; and more kites and crows plundered her.
If we were readers only of the cosmic novel, things would be different: we should then share the author's point of view and recognize villains to be as essential as heroes in the plot.
In your own eyes each of you here is its hero, and the villains are your respective friends or enemies.
He called them together and said: "Fellows, while we remain idle here, those villains may be completing the work of putting Merriwell out of the way.
But all ladies are indulgent to villains in fact, prefer them!
Those who know that you are not guilty--those who could make you appear so--the villains with whom you horde, and drink and brawl!
Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.
The thievingvillains will have the best, and divil a ha'penny do they pay for it.
Couldn't we do something to hould the attention uv those villains at the outpost while Samba and the chief are doing their job?
Scott takes his heroes and villains seriously, which is, after all, the way that heroes and villains take themselves--especially villains.
He was not astounded at what I had learned, for he had for some time believed, as I, that the music teacher was the man, but he was confounded that the villains let me off so easily.
The more hair-breadth escapes to be made, the more eagerly do these villains seem to enter upon their course.
But there are villains in the world who seem to combine with base desires and notions a persistency in the expression of them which never wearies.
He hoped she'd make the acquaintance of some good man, and get married, and thus be saved from trouble; but he reflected that these villains would manage to keep such men as that away from her.
Indeed, virtue, save as exemplified in the characters of a few great souls, grows weary and careless, and turns almost to vice, long before the perseverance of these villains would turn from its course of wrong.
He was never over-dressed,--a fault of villains of his kind generally.
Because the villains who have escaped us here,' the lawyer answered, 'we shall find there.
I was fortunately on the spot to give her such protection as I could, but the villains overpowered me, and to prevent my giving the alarm, as I take it, bundled me into the chaise with her.
They slay Brahmans, they interfere with the sacrifices and other ceremonies, and they carry off the daughters of hermits: indeed, what crime do not the villains commit?
So, you see, one cannot confide in villains whose actions are base.
Thus abandoned and deserted, without the least prospect of relief, but threatened every moment with death, did these villains leave us.
The same evening the threevillains already condemned were executed.
Drawing his creese, one of the villains cut the throat of the wounded man, nearly severing the head from the body.
There is one other phase of the making of villains which deserves consideration.
The utter chaos into whichvillains have fallen has been a cause for regretful comment for years past.
At the time of the first performances of Mr. Moody's play "The Great Divide," it was pleasant to see that a sense of fitness in the nationality of villainshad not entirely died out.
No one, for instance, has ever suggested any method for the perpetuation of the heroes and villains of the old plays and romances.
Long ago it was pointed out that villains no longer employ direct and honorable methods like murder and assault.
But before he could get it into his hands the villains struck him down, and with thirty or forty wounds gave a passage for his soul into a better life.
Certain it is that he brought more villains to the gallows than perhaps any man ever did, and consequently by diminishing their number, made it much more safe for persons to travel or even to reside with security in their own houses.
He had disobliged almost the whole group of villains with whom he had concern, and there were numbers of them who had taken it into their heads to deprive him of life.
The set of villains into whose society he had joined himself, viz.
I heard thevillains cry--"one more run with the beam, and down it comes!
The threats of the two villains would have terrified some women out of their senses, but the only result they produced on me was violent indignation.
For an instant I stood quite horror-struck before this new proof of the devilish ingenuity of the villains outside.
Making allowance for the difference in expression which their countenances just now happened to exhibit, these two abandoned villains were so much alike in other respects as to lead at once to the conclusion that they were brothers.
My worst forebodings had never suggested to me that the two villains might mount upon the roof.
Yet what I took I took only from the rich; whereas villains exist who, while drawing thousands a year from the Treasury, despoil the poor, and take from the man with nothing even that which he has.
I wish it had been God's will, De Cerons, that I had died three hours ago; but the villains would not kill me, though I refused them quarter and asked none myself.
If you think the scheme is feasible, let me hear from you and I will begin to get my team of villains together.
I was ordered to the eastern end, where the stone stile leads into Perlycombe lane, by which the villains must have got in; with no house there in view of it, but only the tumble-down Abbey.
Unless we manage very badly indeed, or have desperately bad luck, we shall get hold of the villains who profaned your churchyard, and through them of course find the instigator.
For the most part, the villains manage so well that no one ever dreams of what has happened.
A thousand pounds will be sure to tempt the poor dirty villains who must have been employed; and a thousand pounds will tempt a good lawyer to sell his own wife and family.
I've got something more to show you, that spots the villains pretty plain.
The style is gay; the action abounds in unexpected incidents; the ending brings ridicule or punishment to the villains in the plot, and satisfaction to all worthy characters.
Other cantos of the same book are devoted to Guyon's temptations; to his victories over Furor and Mammon; to his rescue of the Lady Alma, besieged by a horde of villains in her fair Castle of Temperance.
Such must have been the two villains who fled at the sight of Rinaldo, and who had brought the woman into this dark spot to stifle her testimony for ever.
The villains would have persuaded me I ought not to come to Court--aha!
But I had the most eager desire of demolishing this gang of villains and cut-throats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
