If they who kept the inn were such that villany might reckon on their connivance, and innocence despair of their aid--there was no neighbourhood to alarm--no refuge at hand.
And there is nothing like the voice of a frank, honest nature to dispel all the clouds that come upon us when we think of our own faults and the villany of others.
But even yet he did not dream the extent of his partner's frauds or the villany of which he was capable; he therefore took no one into his confidence and sought no assistance.
Do you mean to say," he asked his father, "that this is the Walcott of whose villany you have been writing me, and that he and the murderer of Harry Whitcomb are one and the same?
I must leave them, and seek some better service: their villany goes against my weak stomach, and therefore I must cast it up.
Zac had consequently been left in the dark as to the particular villany of Cazeneau towards Laborde and Mimi.
He understood pretty well that to the villany of Cazeneau were due both his own captivity and the more serious danger which threatened his friend.
At night the contents of this kingdom of villany were sprayed out over London, to the bewilderment of good-natured Dogberries, and country gentlemen, making their first visit to town.
This was the most daring piece of villany he had ever undertaken; but he felt that the precautions he had used would preserve him from suspicion.
He, therefore, stood pledged to the performance of any deed of villany that should be imposed on him.
And even when they have committed a greater villany than usual, they carry their heads higher then ever.
For this piece of villany I shall settle with you, however, never fear.
Self-sacrifice--Villany Time passes now as it did on the night recorded in the preceding chapter.
The public voice loudly accused many nonjurors of requiting the hospitality of their benefactors with villany as black as that of the hypocrite depicted in the masterpiece of Moliere.
That he had not achieved more was attributed chiefly to the villany of the Commissariat.
Those terrible truths which appall us in the guilt of Macbeth or the villany of Iago, have their moral uses not less than the popular infirmities of Tom Jones, or the every-day hypocrisy of Blifil.
Chapter XIV Villany on a Grand Scale When L'Olonnois landed on the disreputable shores of Tortuga, he was received by all circles of the vicious society of the island with loud acclamation.
I felt that a solitary walk was necessary to compose my spirits before I again trusted myself in Rashleigh's company, whose depth of calculating villanyhad been so strikingly exposed to me.
He was probably conscious that Miss Vernon's communications had been unfavourable to him, though he could not know that they extended to discovering his meditated villany towards her.
If hell," I said, "has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villany is masked by hypocrisy.
I am, by a solemn contract, the bride of Heaven, unless I could prefer being wedded tovillany in the person of Rashleigh Osbaldistone, or brutality in that of his brother.
Cesare Borgia in his career of villany is analyzed with exquisite distinctness in Chapter xxvi.
Robert Greene, who did so much to introduce the novels of Italy into England, confesses that during his youthful travels in the south he 'saw and practiced such villany as it is abominable to declare.
That one has ejected us; either somevillany or quirk at law, at any rate, an heir surviving him, will at last eject him.
For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, for villany is not without such rheum.
No visor does become blackvillany / So well as soft and tender flattery.
He bid them consider the Villany of his Father, King Aerio's Death, and that by their Obstinate holding out they made the Murderers Cause more Criminal.
Whether we consider the number of victims, the absurdity of the evidence, and the real villany of some of the persons implicated, it is equally extraordinary.
In one of his letters he threatened Rochester that unless he were speedily liberated, he would expose his villany to the world.
For the heavens are not only fruitful in new and unheard-of stars, the earth in plants and animals, but men's minds also in villany and vices.
The villany of that spirit takes a hint of infidelity from our studios; and, by demonstrating a naturality in one way, makes us mistrust a miracle in another.
He acted selfishly and unpatriotically, but not with that deliberate villany with which he has been charged.
Why, powerful villany first set it up, For its own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.
Even now before the king I saw it plain; But duty in that presence awed me then; Yet there I dared thy treason with my sword: But still Thy villany talked all; courage had not a word.
The deed of villany was therefore in full train to be accomplished; it remained to see whether by diligence on Hartley's side, its course could be interrupted.
I have learnt much, more than you may fancy: and now this crowning villany [what if he had known of the ulterior designs?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villany" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
