How To Use Knave In A Sentence

Campbell country; now, as I say, they were very snod, the scurviest of the knaves set up with his hosen and brogues. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour, -- a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars. The Golden Dog
About 600 guests flocked to the Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse for the glittering event with live bands, discos, food, casinos and prize competitions.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'

He hid a knave of hearts in his pocket.
Above all, she could not understand why, since she had acquaintances in the family, and since the Dame Glendinning had always paid her multure and knaveship duly, the said lass of the mill had not come in to rest herself and eat a morsel, and tell her the current news of the water. The Monastery
“How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.” The Fortunes of Nigel
Sixtus the Fifth was the son of a swineherd, and raised himself to the popedom by his abilities: he was a great knave, but an able and singular one. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools.
Knavery may serve, but honesty is best.
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic. The Collectors
Gentleman, you see, do not play cricket with knaves.
For the king is unwise, so are his knights, and a knave is his brother, the one as the other; therefore may Britons be much the un-bolder, when the head (leader) is bad, the heap Roman de Brut. English
So he told him what had befallen him and added, If I know whither the rascal is gone and where to find the knave, I would pay him out. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This is just the latest punch in a long fight against Google: last year the alliance compared the settlement to John D. Rockefeller's "knavery" in colluding with railroads in the 19th century. National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
I was so unpleasantly occupied, for some time after her departure, with the knaveries said to be practised among the dense cover of the Windmill Wood, that I did not immediately recollect that we had omitted to ask her any particulars about her guests. Uncle Silas
Shakespeare is not pointing out, in 'The knave turns fool that runs away,' that the wise knave who runs away is really a 'fool with a circumbendibus, '' moral miscalculator as well as moral coward. ' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Royalty was on hand at York Racecourse as the highlight of the May Meeting reached its climax on Knavesmire.
She be-knaved, be-rascalled, be-rogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Too long has the free world laboured under the leadership (so-called) of knaves, nymphos and knuckle-heads.
If two high cards be missing from the tenace suit, as in the case when it is headed by Ace, Queen, Ten, or King, Knave, Ten, and the Auction of To-day
The indictment against Adams, as I read it, is that he's a fat, pompous old windbag who assumes that anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a fool or a knave.
The Tea Party candidate represents the worst species of brazenness, brainlessness, knavery, and hypocrisy since the Know-Nothings of the 1840s and 1850s, a party driven by popular fears that the country would be taken over by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, hostile to Anglo-Saxon values. Robert Brustein: Reviling Obama
Martin, having recovered himself a little, judged that the lady who acted the part of Cunegonde was a cheat, that the Perigordian Abbé was a knave who had imposed upon the honest simplicity of Candide, and that the officer was another knave whom they might easily silence. Candide
Those convinced of his knavery, however, are unlikely to accept this judgment as definitive.
Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. Batard
There are five honours, viz: - Ace, King, Queen, Knave and Ten, if trumps are declared.
Commandments broken in a general smash; such rogueries and knaveries as no storyteller could invent; such murders and robberies as Thurtell or Turpin scarce ever perpetrated; — were by my informant accurately remembered, and freely related, respecting his nearest kindred, to any one who chose to hear him. The Virginians
There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice.
St. Honore, at Paris, sat a man ALONE — a man who has been maligned, a man who has been called a knave and charlatan, a man who has been persecuted even to the death, it is said, in Roman Roundabout Papers
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
“By my honour,” said the baron, “I would gladly know who has dared to array the poor knave thus; and I trust he should dearly aby his outrecuidance, were he the best, save one, in England.” Waverley
Bezique is the queen of spades and knave of diamonds, for which the holder scores 40 points.
I saw how it had been betwixt you, and I sent him out of my company with a wanion — I would rather have a rifler on my perch than a false knave at my elbow — and now, Master Roland, tell me what way wing ye?” The Abbot
And was this treemanangel on his soredbohmend because Knockout, the knickknaver, knacked him in the knechtschaft? — Finnegans Wake
With this holding the King is manifestly most advantageous, as if the Declarer hold Ace, Knave, it will either force the Ace and hold the tenace over the Knave or win the trick. Auction of To-day
The American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in a letter in 1876: "Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? Rick Finkelstein: Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know
The Tyburn, on the Tadcaster Road side of Knavesmire, was where York's gallows were situated from 1379 until 1812.
Yet, on my confcienee, there are verier knaves defire to live, for all he be a Roman: and there be fome of them too, that die againft their wills -, fo fhould I, if I were one. The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes
The Royal meet will be hosted at York's Knavesmire in June as its home course in Berkshire undergoes a massive facelift.
Malvolio, to tie up his legs, perhaps to keep them from running away, these false knaves wore, some of them, ragged boots up to their thighs, while others had no crural coverings at all, and only rough sandals, such as the Indians there use, between their feet and the ground. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
Among her portfolio of winning photographs were shots taken in York at the Station Road War Memorial and at Knavesmire during the floods of 2000.
As for myself, I only pray that he is honorable and will not play the knave. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He erects that conscience as a screen to his knaveries and tricks and wiles, and masks the whole with a cloud of words. Through Russia
One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too, that die against their wills; so should I, if I were one. Act V. Scene IV. Cymbeline
A false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers than I willa serpent when he hisses. Feh
I'm glad he's going since IMO, the man is a fool and a knave.
Baseball history bulges with hundreds of other bounders, knaves, and lunatics who were not anywhere near as talented.
Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable of such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor simpleton was neither fatuous, nec naturaliter idiota, as is expressed in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crack-brained knave, who could execute very well any commission which jumped with his own humour, and made his folly a plea for avoiding every other. Waverley
This is the question of questions, to which we may demand an answer; and, according to that answer, observe the dilemma into which these furciferous knaves must drop. Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
Now Ulrich had long suspected the knave of bad doings, for many pearls and jewels had lately been missing from her Grace's shabrack and horse-trappings, and the groom, who always laid them on her Grace's white palfrey, knew nothing about them, though he was even put to the torture; but as Appelmann had all these things in his sole keeping, it was natural to think that he was not quite innocent. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1
Other cities may let such things go, but we don't stand for any such knavery here.
He claims that they accused him of being a fool and implied he was a knave who was guilty of dishonourable conduct.
After fifteen or twenty seconds, Lily and Scheherazade (with Keith somehow bracketed in the middle of it) were swiftly and surreally engulfed by a swarm of young men, not boys or youths, but young men in sharp shirts and pressed slacks, whooping, pleading, cackling and all aflicker, like a telekinetic card trick of kings and knaves, shuffling and riffling and fanning out under the streetlamps ... 'The Pregnant Widow'
A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. Les Miserables
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic. The Collectors
Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable of such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor simpleton was neither fatuous, NEC NATURALITER IDIOTA, as is expressed in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crack-brained knave, who could execute very well any commission which jumped with his own humour, and made his folly a plea for avoiding every other. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?” The Talisman
With a cricket ball in hand, his transformation from social knave to spellbinding performer is as magical as his bag of tricks.
Shakespeare is not pointing out, in 'The knave turns fool that runs away,' that the wise knave who runs away is really a 'fool with a circumbendibus, '' moral miscalculator as well as moral coward. ' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
The honest man take pain, and then enjoy pleasure ; the knave take pleasure, and then suffer pain.
The knaves were thinned then, -- two or three crops a year of that rank squitch - grass which it has become the fashion of late to call the people. Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk
When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
Realising the going would not be good on the Knavesmire for heavy traffic they decided to offer a tow to vehicles taking part in the Northern Motor Caravan Show.
In general, Winter seems to feel that most writers are either the ‘good guys’ or the knaves, and allows for very little middle ground.
` ` By my honour, '' said the Baron, ` ` I would gladly know who has dared to array the poor knave thus; and I trust he should dearly abye his outrecuidance, were he the best, save one, in England. '' The Waverley
The clergy and the crowd must have been rather ashamed of themselves in secret, I think, for being such poor-spirited knaves. A Child's History of England
Progressives' preferred image of the diviner was of a ‘knave’ preying on the credulity of ignorant backvelders to defraud them.
When two vowels snuggle together confusingly, a clarifying separation is indicated by the dieresis over the second vowel; in naïve, the two dots tell you to pronounce the word “nah-YEEV,” not “knave” or “knive.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Instead, according to the same Daily Record, he is a knave and a liar.
From Kim-berley to Table Bay the fame of the Knave of Diamonds had travelled, and if only one-half we heard of the man was true he had earned his title. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
"You false-hearted knave," he added, turning to Carfax, "your doom is sealed."
The lawe of Engelonde is ower will and lieth in ower breest, knave. March 8th, 2007
Now, I think that the longer we preserve that abhorrence for knavery which is the generous instinct of youth, why, the fairer will be our manhood, and the more reverend our age. My Novel — Complete
We hear him through the night ranting and raving in his sleep: ‘Fie, losels and liars, knaves everyone.
Romeo and Juliet," the chorus narrates, "His name was Geoffrey Lebowski called yet/Not called, excepting by his kin/That which we call a knave by any other name/Might bowl just as sweet. Washington Square News
To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. The Eye of Osiris
His performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.
But the marvel of his comprehensiveness is his mode of dealing with the vulgar, the vicious, and the low, -- with persons who are commonly spurned as dolts and knaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
It is only necessary to have a spirit like the pythoness; and, to bring this spirit of pythonism into successful operation it is only necessary that one party should be a knave and the other a fool; and no one can deny that such rencontres very frequently occur. A Philosophical Dictionary
Arrrrr," she shouted, "I say, me maties, we terminate every last one of these cur-mongering, bloated knaves ... dey be known as the 93 US Attorneys. Good News for GOP: Memory Fuzzy on Prosecutor Firings
The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity: he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all madcap youngsters, he was a universal favorite among the women. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
For most part in these kind of disports 'tis not art or skill, but subtlety, cony-catching, knavery, chance and fortune carries all away: 'tis ambulatoria pecunia, Anatomy of Melancholy
The language is everywhere that of men of honour, but their actions are those of knaves -- a proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human nature, and frequented what we call polite company. Letters on England
And h'yar's the knavery of the thing; sir! the unpronounceable rascality, sir! Nick of the Woods
Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable of such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor simpleton was neither fatuous nec naturaliter idiota, as is expressed in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crackbrained knave, who could execute very well any commission which jumped with his own humour, and made his folly a plea for avoiding every other. The Waverley
In fact, except Oliver Cromwell, King William, a few gentlemen who had the misfortune to be executed or exiled for high treason, and every dissenting minister that he has or can find occasion to notice, there are hardly any persons mentioned who are not stigmatized as knaves or fools, differing only in degrees of "turpitude" and "imbecility". Famous Reviews
Piper be hang'd, knave! look, the dancers swelt them. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
The rain is sheeting down out of a heavy sky, turning the Knavesmire into more of a quagmire.
Once a knave, ever a knave.
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.
The project will involve constructing a new timber roof deck above clock faces, dismantling and rebuilding parapets and pinnacles, recovering the lead roof, repointing buttresses and repairing knave roof timbers and rainwater goods.
Winner of the valuable William Hill Trophy on Knavesmire in June, Artie ran a blinder on his latest start in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon.
“Haud your peace, ye knave, and hear what I have to say till ye — We are gaun a bit into the Hielands” — “Ye tauld me sae already,” replied the incorrigible Rob Roy
But this material is so swamped in trickery and knavery that its inclusion becomes worthless.
“And, by the Saint Christopher at my baldric,” said the good yeoman, “were there no other cause than the safety of that poor faithful knave, Wamba, I would jeopard a joint ere a hair of his head were hurt.” Ivanhoe
Delight runs a gambling club and discreet parlor house—i.e., a bordello—known as the Dancing Knave on semirural Rivington Street. City of Glory
If Van Dale, the author of the “History of Oracles,” and his abridger, Fontenelle, had lived in the time of the Greeks and of the Roman republic, it might have been said with reason that they were rather good philosophers than good pagans; but, to speak sincerely, what injury do they do to Christianity by showing that the pagan priests were a set of knaves? A Philosophical Dictionary
We're rascals, and scoundrels, and villains, and knaves.
Mickey Rourke is the cybernetically enhanced knave Whiplash as well as Scarlett Johansson appears as Black Widow, the Russian assassin who might additionally be joining Gwyneth Paltrow as intensity adore interest. A Pizza Mind: The 50 Biggest Movies Of 2010 The films most likely ...
Ribi on his side cried out with all his might, 'Believe him not, my lord; he is an arrant knave, and for that he knoweth I am come to lay a complaint against him for a pair of saddle-bags whereof he hath robbed me, he cometh now with his story of the boothose, which I have had in my house this many The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
Moreover, the Bohemian had sung songs of worldly vanity and impure pleasures, he had derided the cord of Saint Francis, made jest of his miracles, and termed his votaries fools and lazy knaves. Quentin Durward
There are five honours, viz: - Ace, King, Queen, Knave and Ten, if trumps are declared.
That was somewhat away from the most precious part of the church, the knave, which is built over the grotto where Jesus is said to have been born. CNN Transcript May 2, 2002
But oh, thou gull -- thou dunderpate -- thou losel knave, to lose one line moved by her sweet fingers. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them too that die against their wills; so should I, if I were one. Cymbeline
The language is everywhere that of men of honour, but their actions are those of knavesa proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human nature, and frequented what we call polite company. Letter XIX-On Comedy
They were told that an accident in the tower, where two men had been working, had resulted in the partial collapse of some of the vaulting above the knave, just after Evensong had finished at 6.15 pm on Monday.
One of the most curious theological knaveries ever practised is, in my opinion, that of a small bishop — the narrative asserts that he was a Biscayan bishop; however, we shall certainly, at some future period find out both his name and his bishopric — whose diocese was partly in Biscay and partly in France. A Philosophical Dictionary
Once a knave, ever a knave.
And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. BÂTARD
Jane, who was fifth last year, led the way for Knavesmire to collect the ladies team prize by taking runner-up slot in 84-31.
Cairo is a sharper and a past master in knavery, and he will certainly slay the Jew and bring hither the dress.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Many a scurril knave will make scornful rhymes concerning you. Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat
Turning to the bewildered old man, he continues: "to be called a knave, and upbraided in this manner by your daughter, when I have befriended you all these days! An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
For any man to profess to be governed by the fixed principles of justice, of honor, of truth, or of generosity, is sufficient to stamp him a hypocrite and a designing knave, that is lying in wait under these characters for the happiness of others. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
A crafty knave needs no broker.
Douglas yonder, as well as in other places through the vale, and that is but a woful sight for a true Scotchman — even my own poor house has not escaped the dignity of a garrison of a man-at-arms, besides two or three archer knaves, and one or two slips of mischievous boys called pages, and so forth, who will not let a man say, ‘this is my own,’ by his own fireside. Castle Dangerous
A Circus boss told today how children abused customers and attacked showmen's caravans when his show came to York's Knavesmire.
There are five honours, viz: - Ace, King, Queen, Knave and Ten, if trumps are declared.
As between sequences containing the same number of cards, the one headed by the highest card is good; thus, a quart to a queen is good against a quart to a knave.
Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgments, turned away the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks; I have forgot his name. The Life of King Henry the Fifth
I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's all one, if he be but one knave] [W: but one kind] This alteration is acute and specious, yet I know not whether, in Shakespeare's language, _one knave_ may not signify a _knave on only one occasion_, Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Like the financial network, our social, commercial and infrastructural networks are under constant attack from fools and knaves. Times, Sunday Times
_ _The base is right_; 'tis the _base knave that jars_. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
And something embryonic in John Bulmer seemed to come, with the knave's benediction, into flowerage. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy-life, to press and prod and mold it till it became a big, bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. Diable - A Dog
Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable of such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor simpleton was neither fatuous, nec naturaliter idiota, as is expressed in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crack-brained knave, who could execute very well any commission which jumped with his own humour, and made his folly Waverley
` Hellish places, by all accounts, rations a Siberian moujik wouldn't touch, and less civilised behaviour than you'd meet in the Congo, but I'm told there's no education like it - a lifetime's trainin 'in knavery packed into six years. Watershed
No resident burgess is in anger to call a bailiff or wardemen by any name such as thief, knave, backbiter, whoreson, false, foresworn, cuckold, or bawd.
“And I marvel thy knaveship knows him not on professional acquaintance,” replied Ramorny; “but I see thy nose is unslit, thy ears yet uncropped, and if thy shoulders are scarred or branded, thou art wise for using a high collared jerkin.” The Fair Maid of Perth
Yer slaverin's must conform to the spirit o 'the Jolly Roger or they'll be ripped out like the still-quiverin' heart of a star-crossed landlubber, like we did for this poxy knave. Archive 2009-09-01
Princess Maria and Prince Ron manage their Duchy well, but it is also the dumping ground for jesters, knaves and fools.
Campbell country; now, as I say, they were very snod, the scurviest of the knaves set up with his hosen and brogues. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
They call it the Fourberia della Scena, The Knavery or trickish Part of the Drama. Spectator, April 18, 1711
The good yeomen and thespians who put on the River City Shakespeare Festival are in need of a few knaves, churls, gentlemen and gentlewomen to volunteer as well.
When the symptoms were very complicated, the patient was supposed to be possessed with many demons — a demon of madness, one of luxury, one of avarice, one of obstinacy, one of short-sightedness, one of deafness; and the exorciser could not easily miss finding a demon of foolery created, with another of knavery. A Philosophical Dictionary
Church — I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him. Lorna Doone
Better be a fool than a knave.
Crispin Glover is thoroughly smothered by CGI as the Knave of Hearts to the point of inconsequence. Ray Doesn’t Fall Down The Rabbit Hole For ALICE IN WONDERLAND | Obsessed With Film
Begone from my presence, thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, enemy of the respect due to royal personages! Don Quixote
This design shows the Arms of the Company supported by men in armour, with four Knaves of Clubs set cornerwise.
III. iii.127 (435,5) Or, those that be not, 'would they might seem none!] [W: seem knaves] I believe the meaning is, _would they might no longer seem_, or bear the shape of _men_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?” The Talisman
Van Dale proved, then, by numberless authorities, not merely that the Pagan oracles were mere tricks of the priests, but that these knaveries, consecrated all over the world, had not ceased at the time of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ, as was piously and generally thought to be the case. A Philosophical Dictionary
Wretched village women, deceived by knaves, and still more by the weakness of their own imaginations, believed that after pronouncing the word “abraxa,” and rubbing themselves with an ointment mixed with cow-dung and goat’s hair, they went to the sabbath on a broom-stick in their sleep, that there they adored a goat, and that he enjoyed them. A Philosophical Dictionary
Elsewhere in the city, young and old alike took full advantage of the snowy conditions, sledging on Knavesmire and building snowmen and women.
Above all, she could not understand why, since she had acquaintances in the family, and since the Dame Glendinning had always paid her multure and knaveship duly, the said lass of the mill had not come in to rest herself and eat a morsel, and tell her the current news of the water. The Monastery
But with ace and knave, if dummy has either king or queen, the knave should usually be played, partly because the other high card may be in the leader's hand, partly because, if the finesse fails, the player may still hold a tenace over dummy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Though I doubt not (how much soever knaves may abuse fools with words for a time) but there will come a day, in which the most active Papists will be found under the Puritan mask; in which it will appear, that the conventicle has been the Jesuits safest kennel, and the Papists themselves, as well as the fanatics, have been managers of all those monstrous outcries against popery, to the ruin of those Protestants whom they most hate, and whom alone they fear. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
Take this knave and lock him in his chamber," he bade a couple of his bravi. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Well, I've only read one book about a bird before, Barry Hines's heartbreaking A Kestrel for a Knave, later retitled Kes to tie in with Ken Loach's film adaptation of that name.
Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well.
It is not addressed to anyone, is not in the Knave's handwriting, and is actually a set of nonsense verses.
36 The under miller is, in the language of thirlage, called the knave, which, indeed, signified originally his lad. The Monastery
Then a certain wanton slave of his belly, lamenting the prohibition against drink, adopted a deep kind of knavery, and found a new way to indulge his desires. The Danish History, Books I-IX
And I marvel thy knaveship knows him not on professional acquaintance," replied Ramorny; "but I see thy nose is unslit, thy ears yet uncropped, and if thy shoulders are scarred or branded, thou art wise for using a high collared jerkin. The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
Your diversivolent lawyer, mark him! knaves turn informers, as maggots turn to flies, you may catch gudgeons with either. The White Devil
Croyden glanced at the cards and saw the knave lying on the southerly ace. THE MAIN CAGES
When the knigh heard them speak thus, it was greatly contrarious to his mind, for he thought never to make any such bargain, and answered them with a felonous regard: Fly away, ye ungracious people, false and evil traitors that ye be: would you that I should forsake my natural lord for such a company of knaves as ye be, to my dishonour for ever? Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. How the Nobles of England Were in Great Peril to Have Been Destroyed, and How These Rebels Were Punished and Sent Home to Their Own Houses
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
And concerning the small variations which they contain, we can fitly quote the words of a fine old English scholar, Bentley: "Even put them into the hands of a knave or a fool, and yet with the most sinistrous and absurd choice, he shall not extinguish the light of any one chapter, nor so disguise Christianity but that every feature of it will still be the same. The Books of the New Testament
Two toffs were promenading towards Knavesmire, attired in shiny toppers and spotless tails.
Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries. The Merry Wives of Windsor
Iago's only bond with his wife Emilia is not intimate, or even affectionate, and it becomes the means that undoes him when he believes he must kill her to prevent her from revealing his knavery.
What strange confusion will the spectacle of that knavery which is universally practised through all the existing classes of society produce in the mind? Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

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