Scoundrels

Usage examples of knaves.

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 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.

We know, as a matter of course, that there never have been any sorcerers in this world, yet it is true that their power has always existed in the estimation of those to whom crafty knaves have passed themselves off as such.

The whole town and the duke as well know your creditors to be knaves, but they have their reasons for refusing to see their conduct in its true light.

I was obliged to receive all the compliments which knaves make to honest men when they hope to take them in.

At all events, free, rich, and certain of presenting myself before the bishop with a respectable appearance, and not like a beggar, I soon recovered my natural spirits, and congratulated myself upon having bought sufficient experience to insure me against falling a second time an easy prey to a Father Corsini, to thieving gamblers, to mercenary women, and particularly to the impudent scoundrels who barefacedly praise so well those they intend to dupe--a species of knaves very common in the world, even amongst people who form what is called good society.

Assisted by a couple of knaves, Ganymede went about attending to the rebel at once.

Chateau de Lavedan preceded by twenty well-mounted knaves wearing the gorgeous Saint-Pol liveries of scarlet and gold, with the Bardelys escutcheon broidered on the breasts of their doublets - on a field or a bar azure surcharged by three lilies of the field.

Four chamber knaves among those watchers in the shadows exchanged silent glances .

Urbrindur lifted one hand in an obvious sign to the chamber knaves, who advanced in silent unison.

Standing in it, waiting with grim smiles and swords drawn, were a dozen cortahars, with a handful of chamber knaves behind them.

And if thou canst find no sackcloth, then thou shalt have a double portion of ashes, ye knaves, and so I promise you.

This it is to have a bad king who will set such knaves upon his business.

When the knaves thou didst leave stunned in the fen discover it also, they will at once repair thither, and that maketh a new complication of troubles.

And when these stunned knaves in the fen make report to him, it will be known that thou wert seen close to Peterborough, and not an inch of the town will be left unsearched.