He stole the tarts of the Queen of Hearts

Usage examples of knave.

An thou art afeard, thou knave, thou needst never look upon my face or speak to me more!

Before leaving he took me and Lord Pembroke aside, and begged me to contrive that the two knaves should not come to his house the followifig day.

A week afterwards the knave met me as I was walking by myself, and begged me to follow him to place where we should be free from observation, as his sword had somewhat to say to mine.

I did it but to show these ignorant, prejudiced knaves how they might help each other when these cowardly caitiffs come against us with sarbacanes and poisoned shafts.

I was perfectly aware that I could put the two knaves under lock and key, but I did not want to do so.

SPAIN CHAPTER I I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna--The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order--Zavoiski at Munich--My Stay at Augsburg--Gasconnade at Louisburg--The Cologne Newspaper--My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle The greatest mistake a man that punishes a knave can commit is to leave the said rogue alive, for he is certain to take vengeance.

Two years later she married a shoemaker, by name Pigozzo--a base, arrant knave who beggared and ill-treated her to such an extent that her brother had to take her home and to provide for her.

She threw herself, crying bitterly, on a chair, entreated me to forgive her, assuring me that she was innocent, and that she was not present when the knave had given the names.

I had no reason to dread the arrival of a new companion, and all I had to do was to manage my knave.

Tiretta told me they were a pair of knaves who had won thirty or forty louis of him by means of the book, which he handed to me.

The wind continued to lash the sea into fury for the two following days, and the knave contrived to persuade the sailors who listened to him that the hurricane would not abate as long as I was on board.

The general himself must esteem you, for he cannot forget what you told him of that knave.

I told him my story, without adding that the knaves were to be arrested, and his advice delivered with philosophic calm was to make an autoda-fe of the four notes.

The knave floated his rostrum over to the lepidopter, taking a drink from a flask the slavetaker offered him.

Captain Myngs would be found no better than he is, a proud-speaking vain fool, and a knave in cheating the State and robbing merchants.