How To Use Blackguard In A Sentence
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Obviously, if the United States Navy hanged some eyepatched peglegged blackguard from the yardarm or made him walk the plank, pious senators would rise to denounce an America that no longer lived up to its highest ideals, and the network talking-heads would argue that Plankgate was recruiting more and more young men to the pirates 'cause, and judges would rule that pirates were entitled to the protections of the U.S. constitution and that their peglegs had to be replaced by high-tech prosthetic limbs at taxpayer expense.
CRUSADER RABBIT
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Hark ye, Craigengelt; as you are going into the society of women of rank," said Bucklaw, "I'll thank you to forget your strange blackguard oaths and 'damme's.'
The Bride of Lammermoor
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For his day of work he indemnified himself by nights of roaring, blackguardly enjoyment; and when that balance had been struck, the organ that he called his conscience declared itself content.
The Body-Snatcher
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They'd have cleared this kind of blackguardism up with a knife.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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But what's the virtue of reporting, if it stops short of calling a blackguard a blackguard?
Marty Kaplan: All the News That's Fit to Neuter
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Earlier in the week, we had watched another character have his reputation tarnished by association with political blackguards.
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What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding, losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et cetera_, has been about!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
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In “Thoroughbreds and Blackguards,” Burnaugh argues that the sport’s great competitive impediment, and the temptation that renders it uniquely capricious, is the influence of gambling.
The Sport of Kings
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Somebody obviously decided that they were going to stop me from talking and it's the action of a blackguard and a rogue.
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‘your aim is right dangerous, mon, I saw how ye skelpit them, ye maun help us agin thae New Toon blackguards at our next bicker.’
Lavengro
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But, no! no! I tell you, no! You shall never be able to utter more than _pec, pec, pec_; and while with your mouths open you are stammering and stuttering to get out _cavi_, Satan and his blackguards shall come and peck you, even as crows peck carrion.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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Even matched against the blackguardly egoism of what you call genius? —
Maurice Guest
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Page 110 unwilling to quarrel, he probably thought that it was a good opportunity to air the spirit of blackguardism, which is the strongest characteristic of some people, and persisted in following me up.
The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She P
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While you do have to draw your sword and fight quite a few blackguardly knaves in this game, it is still very much an adventure game.
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Well, this _Sweethearts'_ business wint on like most amshure theatricals, an 'barrin' fwhat I suspicioned, 'twasn't till the dhress-rehearsal that I saw for certain that thim two -- he the blackguard, an' she no wiser than she should ha 'been -- had put up an evasion.
Indian Tales
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BlackguardSpork, I will backhand your mother, then add on a invariably believable hair for a certain balding insecure man.
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“Most blackguardly thing I ever saw,” George continued.
Scales of Justice
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Let the courts make an example of the perpetrators, and in doing so send out the message to others that their vandalistic and blackguardly ways are not acceptable to the decent majority.
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The man whom you call a blackguard -- I don't know why, for _he_ had not been destroying any defenceless person's property -- had had a scoundrelly trick played him, and I and some other fellows got up a subscription for him, as anyone with a spark of gentlemanly feeling would be inclined to do.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
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The thought did occur to me, though I took great care not to hint at it, that he intended to make away with the Colonel, and looked to finding tools among his blackguardly dragoons and an opportunity when in actual conflict with the
The Yeoman Adventurer
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Yes -- you must answer for it all because you turned up like this, because I am a blackguard, because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!
Notes from the Underground
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The opening of Jerome Park did as much for "horseflesh" by rescuing the sport of horse racing from the blackguards and thieves, into whose hands it had fallen, and placing it upon a respectable footing.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
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'Well, this _Sweethearts'_ business wint on like most amshure theatricals, an' barrin 'fwhat I suspicioned,' twasn't till the dhress-rehearsal that I saw for certain that thim two -- he the blackguard, an 'she no wiser than she should ha' been -- had put up an evasion. '
Soldiers Three
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Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, and saluted mutually: on the racecourse of Vincennes or Sablons, behold in English curricle-and-four, wafted glorious among the principalities and rascalities, an English Dr. Dodd, (Adelung, Geschichte der Menschlichen Narrheit, para Dodd.) -- for whom also the too early gallows gapes.
The French Revolution
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King rode all but last now and had a good view of their unconsciously vaunted blackguardism.
In The Time Of Light
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But now that this young blackguard is thoroughly outwitted, we may as well go, for our work here is done.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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He wanted to pop each of them square in the nose for their blackguardly insubordination.
Aching for Always
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“I know what photos are,” he said, thinking of Reynolds and his blackguardly image of Joss.
Aching for Always
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Characterizing adjectives, on the other hand, include doughy 'being like dough' and blackguardly 'being like a blackguard'.
Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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We had grown rather to dislike one another; certainly when any two or three of us were alone, we blackguarded the rest, and if asked about them on neutral ground I denied their friendship.
The Complete Stories
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The contents of this horrible, atrocious, grotesque and blackguardly letter were as follows, word for word:
A Raw Youth
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He blackguarded the team out of the match, there's no two ways about it.
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I will make sure you are cured of whatever that blackguard did to you!
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Hycy Burke was smart, quick, and cunning; but then he was traicherous -- something of a coward when he had his match -- strongly addicted to fiction in most of his narratives, and what was still a worse point about him, he had the infamous ingenuity, whenever he had a point to gain -- such as belying a boy and taking away his characther -- of making truth discharge all the blackguard duties of falsehoood.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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‘They're blackguarding us and it will continue unless we sort it out and we will,’ he warned.
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Slegge is what you call a blackguard," cried Singh angrily.
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
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I never knew that the judge could sentence me to prison for contempt of Court, unless I answered all the blackguardly questions about the Masters.
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Power, pipelines, pandying to warlords who may or may not be Muslim but are thieves, murderers, rapists, poppypedlars and all round blackguards.
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She had listened with calm contempt while these women had underrated the Confederate Army, blackguarded Jeff Davis and accused Southerners of murder and torture of their slaves.
Gone with the Wind
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Those looking for an unredeemable blackguard will find one in the spider-like supporting character of Skroopf, who has no redeeming characteristics.
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-- When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says un reguise.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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I am enraged quickly dead, I say to grow to still be done not have greatly so had seen so brutal, how so big company inside the person is so blackguardly .
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a shop, also the post-office of the town, and in the course of conversation informed them that his tenantry were a lazy lot of blackguards.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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This, and Sam having found the hay and oats, not forgetting the ale, very good at this small inn, first made me take the fancy of resting here for a day or two; and I have got my grinning blackguard of a piscator leave to attend on me, by paying sixpence a day for a herd-boy in his stead.
Redgauntlet
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Grief decides the queen is the key to the problems and that Deasy has to be struck by a dead pig as a scoundrel and blackguard.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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Besides, everything he says has a touch of blackguardism in it, and he is forever trying to make people laugh.
Youth
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Was there ever heard of such lowdown blackguardism?
Finnegans Wake
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All this scene is written in the worst form of Persian – Egyptian blackguardism, and forms a curious anthropological study.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Magistrates, priests, agents, middlemen, tax-gatherers, and tax-payers rush into print to abuse the 'blackguard' -- he is always the blackguard -- who invented the lie; and men upwards of ninety are quoted to show that so long as they could remember, there never was a man injured, nor a rick burned, nor a heifer hamstrung in the six baronies round!
Lord Kilgobbin
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I happen to know every detail of the hellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgias.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
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When he made use of such a phrase as that quoted above, it was to be presumed that he in some sort meant what he said; and so he did, and had intended to signify that Crosbie by his conduct had merited all such condemnation as was the fitting punishment for blackguardism of the worst description.
The Small House at Allington
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It is obvious that those blackguards did something horrendous to you.
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Also the South was becoming the subject of ridicule throughout the country, and I thought most southerners would not like to see themselves thought of as being hellions and blackguardly-type persons.
Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
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But will you be able to thwart his most evil and blackguardly scheme ever: to kidnap the beautiful young Queen of Glorianne?
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banauson" -- in plain English, blackguard; and we do not see how it can be called anything else, unless in the case of some utter brute in human form, to whom "there is no coenum, and therefore no obscoenum; no fanum, and therefore no profanum.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
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When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say
Les Miserables
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This demon terrified his companions half out of their wits, but Apollonius bravely assailed him with all sorts of hard words, and, to literally translate the old Greek narrative, "blackguarded" him so effectually that the poor devil fled with his tail between his legs.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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About the same time Shaykh Nasr, Governor of Bushire, a man famed for facetious blackguardism, used to invite European youngsters serving in the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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‘Well,’ he said, ‘I don't profess to look on it from the religious ground, you know, but I thought it blackguardly, and in bad taste, and said so.’
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He blackguarded Crixus some more, and threw in a few withering remarks about my own shortcomings, and there I left him, with a promise to return later and report any developments.
Flash For Freedom
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It appears in many of these cases that the streets have been handed over to a small number of thugs and blackguards who give all young people a bad name.
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I would ask that the severest penalty allowed be inflicted on the accused for his unwarranted, unmanly, and blackguardly conduct.
Duty, and other Irish Comedies
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Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
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He has attempted to blackguard the hunger strikers, calling for an investigation into reports that they have coerced their children into joining the fast.
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He described in glowing terms the blackguardism of the would-be bigamist, sitting there in smug complacency by the side of his already one too many wife.
My beloved South,
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But if the victim was a blackguard, is the shooter entitled to claim provocation or self-defense or some other statutory excuse to reduce the charge to one of manslaughter or even a simple assault?
The Famous Black-McKaig Trial
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Magnum, watch those blackguards until the police arrive.
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Yes — you must answer for it all because you turned up like this, because I am a blackguard, because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!
Notes from Underground
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At a landing this morning a rough, burly fellow told me he had been to Saginaw an a frolic; that he had a brother and friends in the army who "blackguarded" him about not going in the army; a thing he seemed noways inclined to do.
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,
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a loan, whereby the 'barrer' was replenished and the surly husband set to work; but if all efforts at peacemaking were useless, this new apostle had methods beyond the reach of the ordinary missionary -- he would (the case deserving it) drop his mild, insinuating, persuasive tones, and not only threaten to pulp the incorrigible blackguard into
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