What is "caitiffs"

Usage examples of "caitiffs".

If there was a God more powerful than the sea, and only half as good as men are, he would pity my poor Rosa and me, and send a hurricane to drive those caitiffs back to the wretch they have abandoned.

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.

In those too poor caitiffs she had all that her heart had been hungering for: simple hearts that understood her sorrow, loyal souls that never wavered.

The Stadtholder, Diogenes, the two caitiffs, all standing round the one horse.

The ecclesiastic, when he heard them talking of giants and caitiffs and enchantments, began to suspect that this must be Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose story the duke was always reading.

For, as saith Saint Gregory, "To wretched caitiffs shall be given death without death, and end without end, and default without failing.

Strike them aside with your ghost, like this, whereupon your caitiffs have the freedom of the board.