英语词汇“knavery”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

I wish for some way to warn Cristiana of the new king’s knavery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After years of deception, exploitation, and knavery, the Sixers have finally managed to buy and cheat their way to the entrance of the Third Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.” Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

We like to think of our transgressions as caused less by our own knavery than by the wrong genes or maltreatment in childhood. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z

Their core provisions were always unlikely to substantially affect turnout or election outcomes — and they were also mostly orthogonal to the weak spots in the electoral system that Trump’s knavery attempted to exploit. Opinion | What Is Joe Biden Thinking? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

From their study of English history, they learned what might be called the law of knavery: there aren’t any good ways to get rid of a bad king. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Nay," cried the King, "his falsehood is so evident, his knavery so great, that charges from his mouth are now but empty air. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z

Pray remember me to him, and to all my friends, and inquire about the letter; you'll find knavery in it. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

Let France disdain to sully thee, With the curst kidnapper's knavery! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z

Looking at the matter now, in a cool light, she blundered into sacrifices that were altogether needless, even with this aim in view, and knowledge of the knavery that was to follow. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z

To follow his example would overthrow all business integrity and lead to universal knavery. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z

I knew nothing of this Sunstone, nor of German knavery. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z

Government is a sign of imperfection, an evil necessary against knavery; it must exist only so long as this exists. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z

Is there nothing then to save The noodles from his ignorance and knavery and bounce? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z

Folly and knavery have prevailed most where they should be tolerated the least, and presumption has been excused most where diffidence and candour are on many accounts the most necessary. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z

He was visibly impatient to get his bit of knavery accomplished. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z

Brooke was compelled to admit his own knavery in the transaction, and the consequence was that both himself and the other herald were committed to prison, himself for treachery, and the other for negligence. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z

He was too straightforward to stoop to knavery. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z

Buffeting in a sea of knavery, wherein fraud and chicane and stratagem and pitfall boil into a seething broth, what wonder if the true and single-minded grow bewildered and confused? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z

Kurolyessoff's respectful manner and polite speeches did not take him in for a moment: he guessed at once that there was some knavery underneath. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z

These repeated acts of knavery had quite exhausted our patience; and Capt. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z

They had disguised themselves as well as they were able, and in their clumsy knavery they thought they had completely deceived the Captain. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z

He received a thorough castigation at the hands of the major-domo, which put an end to his knaveries for some considerable time. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

He was, says Lord Camelford, 'a man of no character, and of parts that were calculated only for the knavery of business, in which he overreached others, and at last himself.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z

Echoing Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Tutchin invites Dullness and "Immortal Nonsence" to inspire his ironic praise of the folly and knavery that now ride roughshod over such traditional values as learning, love, wit, and patriotism. Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z

The Inquisitors constantly succeeded, by this detestable knavery, in concealing the truth, and facilitated their object by being careful not to number the reports. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z

Beware of cant—that paraphernalia of noble sentiments, artificially manufactured by politicians and newspapers for the purpose of blinding you to their knaveries. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z

There is some terrible perplexing mystery, if not knavery in this matter," said Dee; "and I have been thinking, nay I more than suspect, that rascal Kelly hath a hand in it. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z

It will be of great use for a divine to be acquainted with the arts, knavery, and fraud of the Roman inquisitor, in purging, correcting, or rather corrupting authors in all arts and faculties. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z

But I'll not expect you there, for I remember your motto—'He who cannot rest his head upon his pillow and enjoy his forty morning winks, is up to knavery, or else he drinks!' The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z

Ashamed to get his living by begging and knavery, and knowing how to bear with his lot no longer, he resolved to kill himself. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z

And all these knaveries are assigned to characters which the reader is expected to honor with his sympathy, or at least to receive into favor before the story concludes. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z

This world thrives on honesty! it grows fat on virtue! knavery only starves! Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z

He read in the newspapers every day of men holding responsible positions who embezzled and absconded, but there was never any question in his mind as between honesty and knavery. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z

Franklin did not know which were the most rapacious, the English or the French boatmen or porters, but the latter had with their knavery, he thought, the most politeness. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z

"Nor the knaveries of men who seek power through dividing the country into classes, and setting each at the other's throat." The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z

Recollecting the pains that had been taken to shut her from the emperor's presence, she feared some unforeseen obstacle, or even some knavery on the part of the officers of government. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z

"There is knavery in alliance with this sorcery," said the Proprietary, as he examined the cloak. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z

I am sick and tired of deceit and falsehood, and the knavery that makes us appear like traitors to the country. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z

That a man like Newman should give up his intellectual life at Oxford “to perform mummeries at a Catholic altar” in Birmingham, was plainly termed insanity, intellectual suicide, or sheer knavery. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z

I love them so much that I can almost bear to hear her laugh at myself, provided it is at my knavery and not at my folly. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z

Had every man of sense the knowledge of the theory, to which he is competent; the practice would revert to the purity of its institution, maintain the rights, and not promote the knavery, of mankind. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z

The unfortunate Crimea was again surrendered to the unlimited power and endless knaveries of the captain ispravniks, and of the worthy subaltern agents of the local administration. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z

The melancholy thought entered my mind, that this poor old creature was not simply a dupe of her son's knavery; but that she had taken an active part in the deception. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z

Time now at the last pours out much knavery, The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z

I plan to have an end to this knavery right now, before it gets out of hand. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z

Thank Heaven, my opinions of knavery are convictions! The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z

O God, if I had not concealed your knavery from her, your holiest oath would not have moved her! The Ghetto A Drama in Four Acts 2011-06-04T02:00:13.903Z

Each flouts the other, and thus display their professional knaveries.3 The ludicrous strokes of this piece could never have come from a bigot to the ancient superstition, however attached to the ancient creed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

For this end, carters and draymen were to be engaged, household implements to be prepared for removal, and negligence and knavery prevented by scrupulous attention. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z

There is nothing but knavery in the world one would think. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z

I shall ever be sure of a man's endeavours to serve me, while I hold out a lure to his knavery and interest. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z

Then, too, he possessed a deplorable love for the knavery of modern financial methods. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z

But the priest Samuel was irritated at having wrested from him the sceptre which his knavery had obtained. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z

I knew you were most anxious to see him; that upon him depended your chance to undo some of his Excellency, the Governor's, knavery! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z

The father took this expression for a strong deprecation of gratitude; the step-mother, for some piece of knavery or other; the daughter, for–words. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z

He was preparing rooms for him, gaining intelligence, and, in fact, making all things ready for whatever knavery so skilful a master might have in hand. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z

“Folly is the cloak of knavery; shame is pride’s cloak.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z

Whence, I would ask, came this act of audacity and secret knavery? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z

Can there be any body in the world," cried he, "that can say thou art not an incorrigible blockhead, Sancho; a compound of folly and knavery, wherein malice also is no small ingredient? The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z

There was a man in London whom I found in my reverses faithful and considerate; an honest man in a world of dishonesty and knavery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z

"I gave you every opportunity to stand up and take a trouncing, but I need hardly say that after this contemptible knavery I refuse to soil my hands on you!" The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z

If so, we must say he managed to scratch his own fingers with the pin, to miss his shot with the bolt, and to spill the liquor extracted from the essence of knavery. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z

On the other hand, might it not have been the priests of Dagon, who resorted to this knavery from the motive already pointed out? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z

Think of the many other things your Excellency would get; the air, the sunshine, the healing fragrance and coolness, and the many respites from the knavery and turmoil of political life. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z

The words for all nations should be, "phantom," "imagination," "reverie," "folly," "knavery." A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z

Let us think it is an error, but not knavery. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z

The careers of men were their meditation by day and by night; and it takes little attention to perceive that frivolity, indifference, knavery, and debauchery do not make for well-being in this world. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z

Why was this? because there were some incredulous; because there had happened bad examples, false oracles, divulging of sacerdotal knavery, which had awakened the good sense of the higher class among the people. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z

The fun of this is, Lazarus saw all the knavery, and Tiverton never denied it! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z

After such a vision, it is useless to relate any others: they are all a species either of knavery or folly. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z

And so it came to pass that the old thief—procrastination—was at his usual knavery; and for want of better, set to work to ruin poor Kenny Dodd! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z

It is a popular error in America to regard Louis Napoleon as a singular combination of knavery and half-wittedness. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z

His dealings, it is true, are of no very extensive amount, and salt, not silver, is the medium of exchange; but there is still room for the exercise of his knavery. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z

The diary adds: "Now let people learn to know the souls of the great and especially of priests, how wicked, deceitful, and false they are, how full of fraud and knavery." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z

Tartuferie, a new word formed from Tartuffe—the action of a hypocrite, the behavior of a hypocrite, the knavery of a false devotee; it is often used in the disputes concerning the Bull Unigenitus. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z

The minor rascalities do not intrude themselves on a scene of such grandeur; and though cheating, knavery, and fraud are there, they are not foreground figures. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z

The universal sympathy with this hero may be encouraged and enjoyed without misgiving, because Bre'r Rabbit succeeds by subtlety, where Reynard succeeds by knavery. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z

His design was to obtain a reward for their restitution,—a trick in common practice by the camel-drivers and hired escort; and this was by no means the first exhibition of his own knavery. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z

Were it not sin against secrecy, I would say it were a piece of gentlemanlike knavery. The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z

Sure this is a knavery, A very trick, and dainty knavery, Marvellous finely carried, that's the comfort: What would these women do in ways of honor? Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z

He seems quite to forget that in every country the traveller is, and must be, a mark for knavery and cheating. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z

My throat was choking with the angry words which burned to leap forth and denounce him for his knavery—he who sat smiling at the success in store for him. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z

I knew for the first time that stinging indignation felt by all decent aspirants for public favor upon encountering the underhand knavery which dims the lustre of democratic politics. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z

He, too, has a Gorgon's head, and his face, like the Kaiser's, is marked with the stigmata of knavery and crime. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z

He who sees in the struggle something artificial, produced by bad men, may perhaps attribute to the creator of the disturbance bad motives for this knavery, for this frivolous and malicious upsetting of social rest. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z

There is n't a dodge—not a piece of knavery that was ever invented—he doesn't know. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z

By some mere hocus-pocus of chance, or subtly designing knavery, a real Italian gem of art had found its way into this most hybrid collection of impostures. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z

Jason died poor and in debt, after all his knavery and schemes. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z

The earth is abundantly drenched with their blood, the blood of all these Allies, so dissimilar, but so firmly united against the monstrous knavery of Germany. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z

On this accursed and devilish foundation they build at Rome, and think that we should let all the world go to the devil, rather than resist their knavery. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

Besides, he has not the same wide field for his knaveries. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z

"You surprise me," exclaimed the arch-priest; "but what proof have you of his knavery?" Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z

Etelka had great difficulty in catching his words; but she understood that they referred to some piece of knavery, when suddenly her attention was attracted by other steps in the corridor. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z

Nor shall knavery, through any negligence of mine, get the better of honesty, nor ignorance of knowledge, nor folly of wisdom, nor vice of virtue. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams

Hence come the many beggars, who by this pilgriming carry on endless knaveries and learn the habit of begging when they are not in want. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

He is presented just as he is, with his good-humor and shrewdness and indomitable pluck, and also with all his superstition and his knavery. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories

But my said tutor needed no such instruction, being of himself given to all manner of knaveries. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

“Oh, none that you will ever know of, Chevalier; and I should think an addition to your inadequate pay would not come amiss,” he added, artfully, without even an effort to veil his knavery. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec

His mind was far, far away from the spot, deep in cares and wiles and schemes; for his was an intriguing head, and had its own store of knaveries. Tony Butler

Who could bear to have such knavery exposed if it were his own? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

If this theory unravelled many a tangled web of knavery to him, it also served to embarrass and confuse him in situations where inferior minds had never recognized a difficulty! The Fortunes Of Glencore

On leaving her, he sets up as an innkeeper, and prospers, but is ruined through his own incorrigible knavery. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

He answered, shortly: "The woman's folly is no excuse for our knavery—lay the letter down, please!" Life on the Stage

Who has not known something of the agony with which one dark deed of passion, lust, falsehood, knavery, baseness, can torture a human heart? Misread Passage of Scriptures

In my judgment there is no other business in which so much knavery and deceit are practised as in begging, and yet it could all be easily abolished. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

"This really is a piece of knavery!" he said, as he followed his master. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.

Ah, mamma, remember what Talleyrand said to the Emperor: 'Give me the instructions, sire, but leave the knavery to myself.' Roland Cashel Volume II (of II)

This is my nephew: I smell him in this knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15

The Lamas, invested with the major part of the currency, by the voluntary donations of the faithful, centruple their fortunes by usury that puts even Chinese knavery to the blush. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2

Are we to be blind while we have eyes to see, fools while we have our reason, that they expect us to worship such greed, knavery and humbug? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

Accordingly, justice has been sold with brazen impudence, knaveries and tricks and treachery have triumphed, and a multitude of simple, innocent, down-trodden creatures, poor in spirit and impoverished in substance, have wept tears of blood. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second

Pretty woman the Princess, but with all the characteristic knavery of her race in the eyes. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II)

By this light, there is some knavery afoot. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15

It was a contest in which knavery, fraud and corruption, the courts, and considerable private capital, were all combined against Whitney, who appeared to be without a strong friend until Raleigh Clopton became his champion. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction

And yet they are not ashamed of their knavery, leading us hither and yon with their bulls! Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z

The knavery of the comedians had furnished him with clothes cut and trimmed exactly on the pattern of those worn by Gratarol. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second

Switzerland—save in some few remote spots of the German cantons, and these not generally worth the visiting—is a land of extortion and knavery. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II)

Raoul continued his role as if on the stage, and as assurance came to him his knavery crushed his better nature. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15

They had allowed him to grow up in simplicity and honesty for three and twenty years without revealing to him how sweet knavery tastes. Landolin

This opened the door to knavery, and added a new feature to the evil. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools

Choisseul, with many bows and grimaces, readily undertook to play the knave, and, with still more, took the price of his knavery, the purse already alluded to, which the earl now handed him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9

So far from allaying Fr�ulein Milch's anxieties, he rather increased them by the satisfaction with which he dwelt upon the consummate knavery of this Adams. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine

What is it that distinguished honesty from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Ideas of Good and Evil

He had a variety of curious stories about racing knaveries, and could clear up several mysterious circumstances, which all the penetration of the "Ring" had never succeeded in solving. One Of Them

The other fellow was meagre and lanky, with thin, pinched lips and little black eyes, half buried in the head, that gave to the whole physiognomy a character of the most thorough knavery. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

"Unheard of knavery!" cried Banfy, with his hand on his sword. The Golden Age in Transylvania

It was pointed out that one gentleman offered plain proof of knavery; on his right foot he wore an English boot, on the left a tennis shoe. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday

If you just stood as high in integrity as I know you to stand low in knavery, it would n't serve you. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day

Have we not a registered catalogue of all the knaveries that have ever been practised on the unsuspecting? One Of Them

And the excellent creature threw up his eyes as he denounced the knavery of his townsmen. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

It is the stalest piece of knavery going. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day

It was not only folly and weakness, it was knavery, to expose the south to the enemy. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)

It was in the Rocky Mountains that American trapping attained its climax of heroism and dauntless daring and knavery that out-herods comparison. The Story of the Trapper

Which means that these people are to go at large, free to practise their knaveries on others, and carry into other families the misery we have seen them inflict here. One Of Them

When once the Chinese has got hold of the Tartar, he employs over him all the resources of the skilful and utterly unprincipled knavery of the Chinese character. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

Do you think that she is to be brought into our knaveries? Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day

Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906

There was something exasperating in the spectacle of this man sitting there, with all the marks of clandestine knavery about him, merely offering bona fide goods for sale. Command

We only take the two or three successful rogues that figure in high places, and we say, 'So much for knavery' Now let me jest ask you, How did they come there? One Of Them

They have generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

The triumph of knavery and falsehood is a bad lesson for any people; but the fruitlessness of honest industry is, if possible, a worse one. St. Patrick's Eve

An Italian always despises a dupe, but entertains a sincere respect for all who detect knavery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life

I had seen knavery thrive too often, not to feel a kind of respect for its ability; I saw honesty too often worsted, not to feel something like contempt for its meekness. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas

If they took a very disparaging view of life, it was not so much the admiration they bestowed on knavery as the hearty contempt they entertained for whatever was generous or trustful. One Of Them

The Chinese are sometimes victims to their own knavery, and we have known even Tartars catch them in a snare. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

But most of all he abhorred the knaveries that craftsmen sometimes commit, of which, having been in France, and having heard something of them, he was only too well able to speak. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero

The very notion of any one having once been well off, and being now in embarrassment, was, to her deeming, most satisfactory evidence of past misconduct and present knavery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life

I have lived to be wiser, and to see vulgarity, coarseness, meanness, knavery, nay, even convicted guilt, the favored guests of royal saloons. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas

This poison of the community was their only preservation from deferred poverty, and from prisons appointed to be the reward of indolence and knavery. Essays on the Constitution of the United States

The Dchiahours possess all the knavery and cunning of the Chinese, without any of their courtesy, and without their polished form of language, and they are accordingly feared and disliked by all their neighbours. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

A thunder clap that reverberated in the hollows of the mountain closed the mouth of Chram, and served the knavery of Cautin to perfection. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres

It would be rather good fun to find out what knavery the chap is up to and to show him off before the girls. Madge Morton's Trust

The admiration of adroit knavery is the first step on the road to fraud; and he who laughs heartily at a clever trick, seldom suspects how he is "booking himself" for the same road. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas

"And are not you ashamed to defend such knavery?" said Mr. Trueman. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales

Some time ago it was believed that the accursed knavery of the enemy had gone so far as to introduce foreign officers amongst our forces to act as spies. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II

I decline, seigneur bishop, to aid in the accomplishment of such a sacrilegious knavery," the hermit-laborer answered in Latin, "but if I reveal your trick to that barbarian he will put you to death! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres

Thou art a distinguished villain—Thou hast raised thyself by complicated knavery, from the dust, to exalted power. The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts.

Without any acts of downright knavery, he was not an honest man—hard to the poor—and a tyrannical master. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)

It would, thought Nelson, be perfectly in harmony with the Banfield manager's knavery. A Canadian Bankclerk

There's nought but cowardice that will prevent your knavery. Olla Podrida

Hammersmith, who had watched this scene with intense interest, saw, or believed that he saw, in this flash the natural indignation of a candid mind face to face with arrant knavery. Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories

And it seemed to me that, by translating it, I should make myself a party to his knavery as well as to his dulness. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.

Nevertheless, by rewarding the exorcisers, by throwing the reins to the Capuchins, and letting them triumph over France, he gave no slight encouragement to that piece of knavery. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

The rest of his effusions are pretentious, mystical, muddle-headed rubbish, half nonsense half knavery, as "The White King's Prophecy," "Supernatural Light," "The Starry Messenger," and "Annus Tenebrosus, or the Black Year." Old and New London Volume I

You are not well acquainted with the knavery of the world. Olla Podrida

For 'tis full of brawls and knavery; Vainly many cats have fallen Victims to an empty bravery. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine.

Opposite stands the manufactory of the ingenious Bramah, whose locks baffle knavery, and whose condensing engines promise such important results to philosophy and the mechanic arts. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew

Girard was to be brought forward as the dupe and prey of Cadière’s knavery. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages

It is a dirty business and the sight of those sleek, cunning, pimple-faced young men, in their fancy vests and dirty cuffs, always sickens me, because I know the knavery in their hearts. Aliens

You cannot make punishment too stern for subtle knavery. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

In every settlement of this kind,—no matter how choice the original materials,—vice will soon preponderate over virtue, intemperance over sobriety, knavery over honesty, oppression over liberty, and impiety over godliness. Thoughts on African Colonization

I see folly join with knavery, and together make up public spirit and public opinions. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

But he returns to find the people here almost in a state of starvation in the midst of plenty, brought on by the knavery or incompetency of government agents. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

We support them; we are obliged to invent, for their benefit, all sorts of knavery, in which they are always ready to take a share; and, withal, they are the masters, and we the servants. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865

Who would not weary of witnessing the present knavery, ungodliness and blasphemy against Christ and his Gospel, even as Lot wearied of the ungodliness he beheld in Sodom? Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent

The knavery is seen to some extent in his method of workmanship as a man of letters. The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

Hearing the praise of his exploits, he studies craft, and seeks parental admiration by adroit knaveries. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty

He trembled to think what knavery his wicked kinsfolk meant, though he himself was their helpless slave; the target of kicks, cuffs, and the robbery of all his earnings. Orphans of the Storm

The whole of the money was at once expended; and nearly £500 was appropriated by what Arthur Young called "the knavery of Commissioners and Attorneys." A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912

In Bunyan's opinion it was knavery in disguise, and certain to degrade and demoralise everyone who acted upon it. Bunyan

The history of the Home Rule movement will in future ages be quoted as the most extraordinary combination of knavery, slavery, and credulity the world has ever seen. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

To a mind so tainted, will flock stories of consummate craft, of effective knavery, of fraud covered by its brilliant success. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty

I will permit them then to go so far only, as to do no great sin and have no great assault and be kept from swearing and knavery. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained

But paper money offers far more extensive facilities to knavery than a metallic currency. The Paper Moneys of Europe Their Moral and Economic Significance

With his employer, Keimer, Franklin had little sympathy, despising both his knavery and his false enthusiasms. Benjamin Franklin

To “resist not evil” seemed to him then only a rather feeble sort of knavery. Dr. Sevier

"No men are more clever in hiding their knaveries than magicians;" and in seven or eight other places he endeavors to expose "their falsehoods, their deceptions, the uselessness of their art," and laughs at it. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

They have generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

The astonishing thing is that all this knavery was devised, or winked at, not only by low class politicians but by statesmen of renown. The Paper Moneys of Europe Their Moral and Economic Significance

Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7

Their universal bad character, therefore, for fickleness, infidelity, ingratitude, revenge, malice, rage, depravity, laziness, knavery, thievishness, and cunning, though not deficient in capacity and cleverness, renders them people of no use in society. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement

And in his treatise on the soul, he exclaims, "What shall we say of magic? what almost all the world says of it—that it is mere knavery." The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c.

“My Lord,” answered Sir Bruin, “let me alone with Reynard; I am not such a truant in discretion to become a mock to his knavery;” and thus, full of jollity, the bear departed. The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition

The same principle holds in the case of sins more subtle and refined, where the malicious knavery of the devil must be resisted. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

She knew a good deal about horses, but nothing whatever about the knavery of betting, the shoddy tricks of it and the despicable spirit in which this great game is often played. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar

They are not ignorant of the frauds, the knaveries, the fables, and hypocrisies, by which that system is supported. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

"One of the most singular advantages we derive from machinery is the check it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the knavery of human agents." The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production

If they lived on our rocky soil, and under our inclement skies, their shrewdness would sometimes border upon knavery, and their frugality sometimes degenerate into parsimony. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

This practice now frequently obtains since the world has learned to use the Gospel to conceal its malice and knavery, to adorn it with the name of a divinely appointed office. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

He had good drinks to choose from; he kept his accounts strictly, but without any knavery; he did not forbid merriment, but would not endure drunkenness. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812

Each is neck-high in the mire of lies, each has plundered the other, and must be dumb for shame of his knavery.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel

Low-bred and vulgar, he had made a fortune by petty knavery and small rascalities. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston

Folly and knavery were, for a time, completely in the ascendant. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

But who is vigilant enough to elude such knavery and to make the children of the devil honest? Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

I do indeed despise the political knavery that deliberately passes drink regulations as war measures and then preserves them as peace measures. What I Saw in America

There was no mistaking his 252 earnestness, she thought, for there was no evidence of deceit or knavery in his face, nor in the eyes that were steadily watching her. The Trail to Yesterday

There’s knavery here, my boy; there’s some sort of influence behind Lindman. 'Firebrand' Trevison

These people always created much confusion and quarrelling among our otherwise peaceable islanders, by their knavery and frequent assassinations; and also gave the Missionaries a great deal of trouble. Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity

By "filthiness" he means the impure life of the world—indulgence, voluptuousness and knavery of every sort. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

You may go to your game of wickets, or of hurdles, or of cards, and any knavery that is in you may stay unchallenged all the while. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

Leave your quibbling, sir, and speak plump to the point—if habit hasn’t hardened your heart, and given a system to your knavery, answer me this: lord Austencourt has privately married my daughter? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810

It was he who had excited his brother to all this knavery, in order that he himself might if possible gain possession of Smaragdine. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

They were, indeed, congenial spirits, and agreed upon one point, that it was better to make a living by knavery than by doing honest work for honest wages. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia

It is averse to knavery, to crafty guile and double-dealing. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

At times they make use of unjust and compromising expressions: Thus the tobacco monopoly is “an imposition” or “a bit of knavery.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

I fancy that through some knavery or blundering on your servant's part, I must have got a different steed from the one you intended for me. Stray Studies from England and Italy

A pastor having punished her for some knavery, she cast a spell upon him by means of some earth upon which he had walked, and which she bewitched. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.

I will yet hit you better; you have killed many a lamb and many an innocent beast, and would impose the fault upon me, but you shall find the price of your knavery. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

Behold the knavery and licentiousness of these people! Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

Bert's most dangerous rival for the prize had been put out of the way, and Cohen, whom he cordially disliked, had been well punished for his knavery. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia

There is some terrible perplexing mystery, if not knavery, in this matter," said Dee; "and I have been thinking—nay, I more than suspect—that rascal Kelly hath a hand in it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

"They arn't over-like to be brothers," said he, with the grin of one too well accustomed to knavery to trust any thing opposed to his own observation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

The monasteries were the result of the knavery of one class and the ignorance and superstition of another. A Yacht Voyage Round England

His grace is not intended to cloak our shame, nor should the licentious abuse the kingdom of Christ as a shield for their knavery. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

The King was supposed to have, with his wonted and infallible sagacity, made the discovery of Ralegh's knavery long since. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography

Every where I have found kindness and truth written on the faces and evinced in the acts of this people, while in Italy rapacity and knavery are the order of the day. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.

The hypocrite who cloaks his knavery is less dangerous to the commonwealth than he who transgresses in the face of day. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Education in the hands of the poor would be a powerful agent with which they would alleviate their own condition, and defend themselves against oppression and knavery. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

There was knavery among the Radicals, and there was violence among the Conservatives. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

This was low knavery seeking protection behind the black mantle of treason. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Its priests, we must admit, ‘in spite of their knaveries and their vices, were enthusiasts ready to perish for their doctrines.’ Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet

In trafficking with us some displayed a disposition to knavery, and the appellation of thieves is certainly applicable to them. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure

There is something in knavery that will hardly bear the inspection of a piercing eye; and you may, more generally, observe in a sharper an unsteady and confused look. The Young Man's Guide

Grant it that one of your political measures is rank imbecility, your acts in exposing the essential knavery of our phenomenal humbugs are beautiful and full of goodness and wisdom. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891

He was on the point of exposing this cheap bit of knavery when the young man glanced in his direction. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest

And some even make superstition a plea for atheism, and stupidity a plea for knavery, perverting their nature, like a stick bent double, from inability to set it straight. Plutarch's Morals

This is a story of a chap that I think must have had a birthmark of knavery somewhere concealed about his body. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Although they are such a poor, miserable people, they are, nevertheless, licentious and proud, and given to knavery and scoffing. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

By the knavery of men without capitol, who insure to double and treble the value of their stock, and realise an honest penny by setting fire to their stores. Diary in America, Series One

Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and 80 fery honest knaveries. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

Such oppressive acts by narrow-minded good men were supplemented by the knavery of unscrupulous bad men. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886

Great contention arose therefrom, much knavery, much disillusion; finally the whole had to be wiped out. Debts of Honor

Hazlitt gives two examples of this species of knavery. The Book-Hunter at Home

Precious rogue, For if there’s any knavery on foot, He, I am sure, is the contriver on’t. The Comedies of Terence

In Algeria this race is generally thought to present a picture of arrogance, knavery and rank cowardice not equaled on the face of the globe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873

From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

And curst be the guile Of treacherous knavery That throws o'er our isle In its tyranny vile The mantle of slavery. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

A good dinner, provided in the back-shop, completes the illusion—and when once the Chinese has established his hold, he employs all the resources of a skilful and utterly unprincipled knavery. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852

How much knavery in actual progress in this wilderness of men in London might one not hope to stop if this doctrine of compensation could be brought home? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles

The system of passes for the Mediterranean opened the way to a good deal of knavery; ships sailed under false colours, or, being themselves at war with Algiers, carried passes purchased from her allies. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

And that implies false dealing, sharp practice, trickery, knavery. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles

In lying, thieving and knavery the Beria is not a whit inferior to his brother gipsy of Europe. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

She brought before his mind by example how superior was earnestness to trivialty, strict integrity to knavery and falsehood, goodness and piety to wickedness and infidelity. Hubert's Wife A Story for You

"Take them bind them disarm them . . . take them prisoners to Luderitzbucht to pay for their knavery," muttered the old man savagely. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa

They seem designed to place a premium on fraud and knavery, and to assist the professional projector and stock manipulator in reaping gains from innocent—generally very innocent—stockholders. Monopolies and the People

Monsieur Vaudreuil is more the gentleman of pleasure, a governor with a large token of the gallant in him, but for chicane, knavery and devilry commend me to this fellow the Intendant Bigot. The Black Colonel

Let thy Greek send for his tools, and the cask shall be opened in our presence; then perhaps, thou wilt recognise thine own knavery.” The Pacha of Many Tales

But he guessed, and upon his guess he built up a theory of financial knavery. Benjamin Franklin

Who boast of what they cannot do Both knavery and folly show. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress

It was like a hateful return to the old life to find himself face to face with those men, and to have to tell over again the story of their knavery and his own folly. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life

Yes, let men call it vulgar, if they will, The trade that thrives while sleeps the sleepyhead; Yes, knavery, not bravery, call it still, To overreach confiding folk a-bed. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika

He was therefore obliged to have recourse to sheer knavery to compass his object. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

By trickery and knavery, Boris Godounof was elected czar by the douma or council of nobles, a body presided over by his friend the Patriarch, and containing many of his partisans. The Story of Russia

As to the Dahcotahs themselves, they never considered it possible that it might be a knavery of the prophet's, but attributed it altogether to his mystic lore. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

Thus placed between two fires, and in danger of being exterminated, they resorted to their old cunning and knavery. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1

Vice and virtue, honor and knavery, true love and duplicity, struggle desperately and incessantly for mastery until the mind is bewildered and the heart and soul are stirred to their very depths. The Blunders of a Bashful Man

Was it not merely wicked imposture and cunning knavery? Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem

But Gunzelin though an old man was full of knavery and falsehood, and so instead of wooing for his nephew he ingratiated himself with Gerda's father. Legends of the Rhine

During the brief colloquy between Galloway and the innkeeper his brain had been busy fitting together the whole intricate design of knavery. The Shrieking Pit

Their violence and knavery Leave not a church or living free. German Culture Past and Present

No one could ever know or assess the extent of the knavery which has arisen, flourished, and grown fat in this long-protracted war. On the Heels of De Wet

He was very cunning to be sure; but the "afflicted" girls could see through his knavery. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem

Dodsley, you may believe, laughed at the lawyer; but that does not lessen the dirty knavery.... Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica

Conjurors retained their repute by much knavery and collusion with others. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales

But America is a fine country for such knavery. Canada and the Canadians Volume I

It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform

"To end the rule of knavery; To break the yoke of slavery; To give the world delivery." Winning a Cause World War Stories

He gave up the charge of knavery; well and good: but where was the logical necessity of his bringing another? Apologia pro Vita Sua

Their names sink in the bottomless pit of oblivion; but their acts of folly or knavery curse the body politic and at last prove its ruin. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

For all this, ventriloquism, trickery, and shrewd knavery are sufficient explanations. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

This to protect aliens from imposition and knavery. Aliens or Americans?

Let not ambition mock their humble toil, Their vulgar crimes and villainy obscure; Nor rich rogues hear with a disdainful smile, The low and petty knaveries of the poor. History of English Humour, Vol. 2

This last consideration might not weigh so much with Florence, but Dodger was more practical, and he wished to restore her to the social position which she had lost through the knavery of her cousin. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World

Bubbles that, bursting, impoverish multitudes, will be blown up by cunning knavery, with stupid credulity as its assistants and instrument. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

If there are atheists, whom must one blame, if not the mercenary tyrants of souls, who, making us revolt against their knaveries, force a few weak minds to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

To give what might be kept without suspicion is, without doubt, arrant knavery. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

The burning breast she will not bide, For wrongs of wanton knavery. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century

Both were rogues in their dealings, only the Europeans had the advantage of superior knowledge, which enabled them to rob with superior dexterity, and to cloak their knavery under the name of barter. The Moravians in Labrador

This was not reached in Ben Jonson's time, but fools and their artifices are by him discarded for something more natural, for country bumpkins and servants, ludicrous in their stupidity, knavery and drunkenness. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

Either by the folly or the knavery of the messenger the papers fell into the hands of Hamilton, who read them to the Convention. Claverhouse

It is a ſhocking diſgrace of modern governments, that they are driven to this pitiful piece of knavery, to draw money from the people. The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Carroll's eyes were looking for knavery, and the men's were looking for suspicion of knavery. The Debtor A Novel

No evidence has been found against the others you have named which could in any way connect them with this folly—or shall we say knavery, since you yourself have made use of the word. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

Thy ability to manage such a design I know very well; but how thou wilt dispense with the knavery of it, I am yet to learn. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

String-actuated knaveries, more or less similar to the mouse-in-the-kitchen one, are always devised for the plaguing of a new night nurse. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital

This was not the knavery of the vender. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three

The citizen who supposes that he does all his duty when he votes, places a premium upon political knavery. Public Speaking

Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excuse. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age

As the world goes one must practise a little knavery, or resolve to leave the world. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

It is when he uses the phrase 'to plume up my will in double knavery.' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

I was about to encounter the assailing eyes of knavery. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business

That is the manifestation which they might make in case of any treachery or knavery on my part. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

But this it is to have a bad cause, which puts men of necessity upon knavery; and that knavery is commonly found out. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07

When, however, he found the incomers were inclined to accuse him of trick or knavery, he spoke out bravely enough. What Necessity Knows

All the French that lately did prance There, up and downe in bravery, Now are all sent back to France, King Charles hath smelt some knavery. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2

As to his knaveries, they were few, and more humorous than injurious. Miscellanea

It would have been performed in 1768 but for the intrigues of jealous rivals and the knavery of an impresario. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.

He was the Napoleon of knavery, and established an uncontrolled empire over all the practitioners of crime. Jack Sheppard A Romance

Speak, satire; for there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented land appear Less happy now in times of peace than war? English Satires

His honest pride and integrity of heart raised him above it: neither did he sink into the whine and cant of imposture, nor the slang of knavery. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

Hycy Burke, I am told, is a compound of great knave and gross fool, the knavery rather prevailing. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

He accordingly replied, conscious that hypocrisy was out of the question— "The fact is, sir, I want you to aid me in a piece of knavery." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

In Darrell's open features, frankness and honour were written in legible characters; while, in Jack's physiognomy, cunning and knavery were as strongly imprinted. Jack Sheppard A Romance

"Well, then, let her come; do you go and engage her; but see that she will not extort dishonest terms from you, because there is nothing but fraud and knavery among these wretches." The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

Remove your things instantly; but that shall not prevent me from tracing you and handing you over to justice for your knavery and fraud. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

I conjectured that, whoever he might be, he would be distinguished for his egotism and his knavery. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

There's no knavery in the grave, my Vulture. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

Sanctimonious fanatics with their power of darkness sought to persecute us, lest their folly or knavery be exposed to the light of day.... The Haskalah Movement in Russia

I hold it, then, of small matter, that, for a time, Miss Hurribattle mistook two charlatans, three-fifths knavery, the rest fanaticism, for honest workers in the Lord's vineyard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863

The minds of all men plod the same rough roads of sense; and in spite of much knavery, all win at times "an ampler ether, a diviner air." Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

“What right has he to speak of her as his darling Florence,” he exclaimed, “while he is confessing his own knavery?” The Claverings

The moment your necessities are known, knavery will be immediately at work, and assume its guardianship over folly. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

To end or mitigate the ills of slavery, The Planter's avarice, the Driver's knavery? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

There is knavery in this desertion, but there is no folly. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies

I'd like to teach the beggar that honesty can be as intelligent as knavery; that in spite of his strength of cunning, law and right are stronger. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World

There are knaves in this world, and no one can suppose that he has a special right to be exempted from their knavery because he himself is honest. The Claverings

Indeed there is a monarchical spirit in knavery, which has never yet been observed. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

"I would willingly be spared the details of your knavery," said Mistress Nutter, somewhat impatiently. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest

Weyler had no 20,000 men to spare, but he did not dare tell the truth lest the facts of his knavery might come out. The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

This Piece of knavery was received as the acme of cuteness; and I well recollect the language in which the brute wound up his self-laudations: "If any chap can steal faster than me, let him." The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

K. is decidedly of opinion, that nothing but resolute conduct will overcome the fickleness and knavery of the Chinese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

What a bounty on dishonesty and knavery in an agent is this? Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

He must have been the victim of mesmeric influence not to see through their vile knavery in pleading poverty when they were asked to carry out an act of common humanity. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon

The story of his knavery at the State Convention had been smothered in the interests of the party. The Ramrodders A Novel

Both knavery and delusion were at work, as the following incidents will abundantly manifest. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

Robin Good-fellow, hating such knavery, put a trick upon him in this manner. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'

"It's one of knavery and roguery," replied Bob, "sure devil a thing one of you knows only to believe in your Pope." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

He raised it on high, greatly puzzled, and then, as ever when he suspected knavery, his eyes sought Tommy, who was sitting on a form, his arms proudly folded. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood

Yes Sir, and go before ye, And round about ye, why do you rail at me For that that was your own sin, your own knavery? Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)

A contagion of knavery ran through the official life of the colony; and to resist it demanded no common share of moral robustness. Montcalm and Wolfe

For thy proved knavery, coining votes i’ the court MEN. The Seven Plays in English Verse

This was the way, then, that the humble and primitive gobernador, who had presented himself to the travelers barefoot, was enriching himself by the knaveries of office! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

Consequently, these people are not separated on account of their aforesaid customs, nor of the danger and opportunity offered them for connivance and knavery. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

For twenty years have I been in your household, but I have not practised knavery. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)

It is the duty of the community to rebuke and repress these pernicious glosses, making the truth heard and felt, that inordinate expenditure is knavery and crime. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness

No crime is too desperate, no knavery too hazardous, no villainy too despicable, for them to attempt, and too often successfully execute. With Links of Steel

"Where Abel Doe is, there, thee may be sure, there is knavery!" said Nathan; demanding earnestly if Roland had seen no other white man in the party. Nick of the Woods

How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of to-day who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs

It must, however, be acknowledged that not a few of them are much addicted to knavery and well skilled in the art of cheating. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

The folly of his own side is exhibited as relentlessly as the knavery of his opponents. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles

I inquire, amused at this theatrical display of their childish knavery. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama

Booksellers by their knavery or their fidelity cannot kill us or cure us. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I

He had my confidence; such confidence as confederates in knavery can bestow. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)

A man may call it what he will, brutality or bravery, I'd rather have the prize-ring back than give a purse to knavery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891

Plunderers of all sorts flourish in a species of blind whirl of knavery; but no worthy person derives any good from the cruel waste of money and strength and energy. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

In it originate all knavery, perjury, and fraud. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I

No wrangle here o'er things of small avail— No knavery, nor charity betrayed— But comrade beings—'Stalwart, steadfast, good. The California Birthday Book

How their cross reached Fourth Avenue one may only surmise, but there surely was knavery at some point of its transit. The Collectors

We palm more frauds upon our simple selves Than knavery puts upon us. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini

"Why, it's the most high-handed piece of knavery I've heard of for many a long day!" he exclaimed when the information formation was brought to him by Vinton and the others. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty

He felt himself—absurdly once again—to be mysteriously associated with them in a piece of sharp practice or even of knavery. Mr. Prohack

They contain many thrusts at the foolishness and knavery of society, especially that genteel portion of it with which the writer, by birth, education and experience, was familiar. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities

For knavery, untruthfulness, and wickedness, I have never seen anything, in all my business experience of forty years, that will compare with this. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome

What knavery is this that you have here? The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Upon this every part of the senate-house resounded with exclamations, that with Carthaginian knavery men had been chosen to solicit a renewal of the old peace who did not recollect its terms. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36

Falsehood, which, as truth means honesty, is taken here for treachery and knavery, does not stand for falsehood in general, but for the dishonesty now operating.—JOHNSON. Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A.

The natives of St. Jago, with those of the neighbouring islands, are mostly black, or of a mixed colour, very encroaching in their manners, and much addicted to knavery. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa

"He had no judgment of character," and was too honest to believe in knavery. What I Remember, Volume 2

Odd were the absurdities of Maori lay preachers, and knavery was sometimes added to absurdity. The Long White Cloud

I know not thy peer for cunning and knavery. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance

Tartuffe, a knave, a creation of Molière's, who makes a cloak of religion to cover his knaveries, and the name of the play in which the character appears, Molière's greatest. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge

Besides being very debauched, he has more knavery than mission. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II

They are chastised on the least disorder, and without the least humanity; yet are they cheerful and full of knavery. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

Why, after the careful inculcations of rectitude during education, comes there in afterlife all this knavery? English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice

But you complain of corruption among contractors, and of knavery among politicians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863

They were all his debtors, and in presence of the whole world he would cast their ingratitude, their meanness, their malice, and knavery in their face, and humble them by recalling the past. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel

"So far," he said, "I have only trifled with knavery." Love and Mr. Lewisham

This annuity, however, she loses through the knavery of her man of business. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

The sea is not more unstable than are those rogues in their knavery. The Red Rover

The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate. The Saint's Tragedy

In England, and other European states, it is pretty much limited to the unemployed of the upper classes, who furnish a never-ending supply of dupes to knavery. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829

Our merchants are accused of all sorts of dishonest management; our brokers, of stock-jobbing; our city aldermen, of bribery; our lawyers, of knavery; our justices, of complicity with the guilty. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

The Pope would certainly not have tolerated this knavery, as Fra Sebastiano can bear witness, since he wished me to complain to Clement and have the notary hanged. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

"I have often heard mention made of the Rover," returned the countryman; "but never to enter into any of the intricate particulars of his knavery." The Red Rover

We all are—we who have not taken the trouble to resent and put an end to the knavery we knew was going on. The Fight for Conservation

Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery, flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him. Ten Boys from Dickens

To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train. A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind

I say wilful because the instances I have mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

He was their champion who, in the brutal fury of his own pursuit, could cast no stigma upon them for the hot knavery of theirs. Martin Chuzzlewit

He was an object of much suspicion, although he had never actually been caught at any knavery. A Hero of Our Time

And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people

To have his confidence in his own knavery so shattered at a blow—to be within his own knowledge such a miserable tool—was like being paralysed. Dombey and Son

I thought 'twas your knavery to take it away: come, give it me again. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616

Even if his father could not be persuaded, they could fly to Ptarth, laying all the blame of the knavery and intrigue that had thrown four great nations into war, upon the shoulders of Nutus. Thuvia, Maid of Mars

It is something to be appreciated, even in knavery. The Old Curiosity Shop

Mithridates, through the knavery of his officers, not knowing for some time the want of provision in his camp, was troubled in mind that the Cyzicenians should hold out against him. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

On that occasion, as in 1720, knavery gathered a rich harvest from cupidity, but both suffered when the day of reckoning came. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1

Kami is quite capable of suspecting a man of any knavery. Baron Trigault's Vengeance

For this set of gentry are adepts in all the arts of knavery and tricking. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II)

The scamp has been obliged to fly, as I learn, for some knavery, and has found his way abroad. The Old Curiosity Shop

But in this affair, Septimuleius gave as great signs of his knavery, as he had done before of his cruelty; for having taken out the brains, he had filled the skull with lead. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

This fact alone ought to rescue his memory from the charge of knavery, so often and so unjustly brought against him. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1

"Let him enter," said De Montfort, "but no knavery, now, we are a thousand men here, well armed and ready fighters." The Outlaw of Torn

These were two brothers living upon the earth who practised every kind of knavery. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

The trouble arose from a little stock exchange operation which M. Ferdinand had engaged in—an affair which savored a trifle of knavery. The Count's Millions

And so he capped his knavery with insolence. The Certain Hour

Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool. Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious cruelty incidental to them, the plotting and the lying and the bribing, the blustering and bragging, the screaming egotism, the hurrying and worrying. The Jungle

The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141. The Dramatic Values in Plautus

Crushed by the overpowering evidence against him, he allowed himself to be searched, and without much demur consented to refund the fruit of his knavery, to the amount of two thousand louis. The Count's Millions

But the world is so full of knavery now, That we know not whom to trust, I may say to you. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind. Albert Durer

The lawyer reminded me of my youth, and warned me against the knavery of mankind, who he affirmed are universally prone to prey upon one another. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor

Nor can this be prevented; for every new check is only a transfer of power from intelligent to ignorant hands; and ignorance, however honest, is a more expensive manager and easier victim than knavery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860

But their utility is more than counterbalanced by their importunity and knavery. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred

Then I went into the markets, where I saw petty knavery In false-measuring corn, and in scales, That wanted no less than two ounces in the pound. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

"For," he whispered to his companion fellows in knavery, "the illusion will only last until the same hour to-morrow." Welsh Fairy Tales

The art of begging was then only art without science: the native genius of knavery unaided by method or discipline. Tales and Novels — Volume 09

The result, finally, was a compound of knavery and superstition. Outline of Universal History

The mixture of fanatical choler and grotesque jocularity, in which he rolls forth his charges of incontinence against Morus, and of petty knavery against Vlac, is only saved from being unseemly by being ridiculous. Milton

Come, sir, I think I found out your knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

"After all," said my adored Dorothy, "I prefer the rogue who when he goes about his knaveries has at least the decency to wear a mask." Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes

Ah! our knave has found his match in another, who has far better tricks in his sack, a thousand kinds of knaveries and of wily words. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

Fashion!—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Poetical Works

Oh, that such men should victims be Of law, and law's vile knavery. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]

Nay, come and go with me, good, honest man; For if thou go with him, he will teach thee all his knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution

Was it necessary, in order to satisfy their ambition, to stand unrivalled through the world for folly as well as for knavery? Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3

They are, however, not only eminent in knavery, but that their folly keeps full pace with their ignorance and stupidity; the following are splendid proofs. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

Nowhere else can you have such a chance of studying human imbecility, knavery and greed. The Mountebank

He knew their stupidity and their knavery better than any one: but that did not keep him from supporting them in order to retain their support. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House

We frequently see the workingman leap the barrier into the bourgeoisie, and then disclose himself as a unique flower of knavery, extortion and misdirected ingenuity. Youth and Egolatry

He rejoices that— they must sweep my way, And marshall me to knavery. Shakspere and Montaigne

A hundred tricks are played on him by shallow knaves, and the result is but to convince us of the folly of knavery. Henry Fielding: a Memoir

At the meeting the case against the poet is first stated; he has not only lampooned women, he has taught their husbands how to counter their knaveries and is an atheist. Authors of Greece

He must surely know by this time that indulgences were sheer knavery and trickery. Life of Luther

Perhaps he knew how Joash had been balked by the knavery of the priests who were diligent in collecting money, but slow in spending it on the Temple. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

There was a great deal of downright knavery in business, but there was another class who satisfied their consciences by being as honest as they could. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World

Falsehood, which as truth means honesty, is taken here for treachery and knavery, does not stand for falshood in general, but for the dishonesty now operating. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

This is a notable couple—and have met But for some secret knavery. Pelham — Complete

All this dirt, ignorance, disease, this knavery and oppression, this maiming of men in body and soul in the coal-camps of America—all this did not exist—it was the hallucination of an "irresponsible" brain! King Coal : a Novel

I repeat, sir, that I consider you guilty of treachery, falsehood, and knavery. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

The Earl of Ridgeley, smitten to the heart by the remembrance of his roguery and knavery, has agreed to make this full restitution. The Yeoman Adventurer

In these lines he seems to accuse the butchers of three faults—cruelty, knavery, and extortion. The Captiva and the Mostellaria

But it is a pitiful truth that our public life has become synonymous with knavery. The American Union Speaker

He was the power of public opinion, making itself felt in this place of knavery and fear! King Coal : a Novel

"Sir Arthur, I have so often warned you of the knavery of that rascally quack, that I really wonder you should quote him to me." The Antiquary — Volume 02

Whither are we going in the ocean of social tempests, of political knaveries, of religious falsehoods? The Grip of Desire

I am not so past my sences But at this age can smell your knavery. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4

The inevitable result of this inroad was that ignorance and savagery got the upper hand; consequently violence and knavery established their dominion, and knights and priests became a burden to mankind. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc.

—Brahmins.—Idols.—Religion.—Humility of the poorer classes.—Their low condition.—Their apathy.—The police.—Their extortions and knavery. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

The language of Oldbuck also intimated a conviction of his knavery, which Sir Arthur heard without making any animated defence. The Antiquary — Volume 02

Mr. Godwin shall know what an innocent, simple child she was when we pushed her into this knavery, and how we dared not tell her of our purpose lest she should draw back. A Set of Rogues

I haven't been detected in any knavery; I'm respectful to my elders. Plays

That he is a disease in the body where he liveth were as strange a thing to doubt as whether there be knavery in horse-coursers. Character Writings of the 17th Century

Increased pay does not mean decrease of knavery. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

We were perfectly aware of this knavery, but did not think it convenient to take any notice. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Don Sanchez proposes a very artful way to make Mr. Godwin a party to our knavery, etc. A Set of Rogues

I conjecture here's some knavery,—fast locked with sleep, in good faith. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9

Who, sir? your minion, sir; Prodigality, The captain elected of all roisting knavery; He will be hang'd, I warrant him, shortly. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8

You do not know this man," he threw in, "you do not know his knavery, Sir! Erick and Sally

True, you will find fraud, cunning, knavery, and robbery, but you will find also the most unsophisticated innocence. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)

As knavery, so folly, that is not reclaimable, is to be speedily despatched; business is to be freed from obstruction, and society from a nuisance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I

Faith, agreed: let's go into some place where we are not known, and there set up the art of knavery with the second edition. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9

You are still in your knavery; but, sith I cannot have his life, I will procure his banishment for ever. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7

Not on account of thy sin art thou forbidden, my son," returned Buddha, "but on account of the ridiculous and unsavoury plight to which thy knavery and disobedience have reduced thee. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales

About other criminals you must be informed by the accuser, but about the knavery of these men you know everything. The Orations of Lysias

His sharp quick black eyes, acute features, ready sardonic smile, promptitude and effrontery, gave him altogether what is called among the vulgar a knowing look, which generally implies a tendency to knavery. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1

Fray him? a vengeance on't! all our shifting knavery's known; we are counted very vagrants. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9

Go, sir; you were best leave this knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7

Bought and sold he was; and of course it is understood that, if you buy a knave, and expressly in consideration of his knaveries, you secretly undertake not to hang him. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

You were so good, Monsieur, as to tell me that you would give up all the deserters who have fled to you to escape chastisement for their knavery. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

"What was't ye were speering at us, sir?" she resumed, with an appearance of stolidity so speedily assumed, as showed there was a good deal of knavery mixed with her folly. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1

He was, however, under Vaudreuil's foolish orders and he had no power to check Bigot's knaveries. The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm

I pray God, they be honest, for there may be much knavery in the dark: faith, if I were there, I would have some knavery with them. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7

Again, while knavery and folly are no bar to rhetoric, mathematics, or copper-working, no knave or fool can get on as a sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Behind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight. The Poems of Schiller — Third period

The man's face expressed rather knavery than vice, and a disposition to sharpness, cunning, and roguery, more than the traces of stormy and indulged passions. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1

Of Appelmann's knavery—Item, how the birthday of her Highness was celebrated, and Sidonia managed to get to the dance, with the uproar caused thereby. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1

From whence is it that the knave is generally so quick-sighted to those symptoms and operations of knavery, which often dupe an honest man of a much better understanding? History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

If Heaven has endowed me with the gift of knavery, I am not one of those degenerate minds who hide the talents they have received. The Blunderer

By implication we make the further statement that, if he be not cleared of folly, he will stand condemned of knavery. Deductive Logic

On Carrión's Heirs of knavery the three have put the brand, And paid the debt the lord Cid set upon them furthermore. The Lay of the Cid

But when she heard Sidonia talk with such knowledge of the trap-door, she guessed there was some knavery in the matter, and though she sat the night there she was determined to watch. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1

You played to enable a friend to get back from a knave what he lost as a fool, and to punish the knavery that he could not well hope to reform. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story

For the generality of people he went away clever with his knavery. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

"From the general knavery and villainy of mankind." was his hard answer, "which always wishes to abet successful guilt." The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2

Later when I grew to know him intimately, I could always tell when he was lying, or making the winning move in some bit of knavery, by that nervous trick of the eyelids. Captain Macklin

His calm account of their unblushing knavery is entirely free from either vindictive malice or superior contempt. Essays on Russian Novelists

Now by that time his breaking was come to his creditors' ears, he had by craft and knavery made so sure of what he had, that his creditors could not touch a penny. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03

He resorted to sharp practice, knavery, and all the forms of legal blackmail; it was not long before his bank account began to swell. Jane Cable

And that capped the climax—that proved stark, raving madness, if it did not prove downright knavery and fraud. Love's Pilgrimage

Whereupon Sidonia got into the carriage with him, never discovering his knavery on account of the darkness, and about midnight they reached the inn at Bruchhausen. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1

They come ashore in the quarter of the Furlani, and all the zest of the play lies in the equivoque which contrasts the knavery of the inhabitants with the naivete of the visitors. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca

The young editor wasted no time in preliminaries; he was an international revolutionist, and no capitalist government was going to draft him for its bloody knaveries. Jimmie Higgins

And when they heard the labourers pleading, they too waxed bold to give excuses, but what ready answers the old Serpent had for them with all their knavery and learning! The Visions of the Sleeping Bard

Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men, into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk! Short Stories for English Courses

Do not pitch me into vile corners of knavery . ?tis not a whittling chore to seek Good if discernment stays lucid , gumption remains yours while will defies still the convenience of hearsay . NATURAE

It delights in holes and subterranean shelters; it will not disdain filth; it is capable of lying, stealing, trickery, knavery. Caesar's Column

When honestly dealt, faro is the fairest of all gambling games, but it is intricate, and may hide much knavery. The Spoilers

I saw knavery in the whites of his upturned eyes. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

The claims to superiority of some of the titled people on the other side are silly enough when one examines them—the records of knavery and thievery and illegitimacy and insanity. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel

单词	knavery
例句	knavery I wish for some way to warn Cristiana of the new king’s knavery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After years of deception, exploitation, and knavery, the Sixers have finally managed to buy and cheat their way to the entrance of the Third Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.” Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z We like to think of our transgressions as caused less by our own knavery than by the wrong genes or maltreatment in childhood. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z Their core provisions were always unlikely to substantially affect turnout or election outcomes — and they were also mostly orthogonal to the weak spots in the electoral system that Trump’s knavery attempted to exploit. Opinion \| What Is Joe Biden Thinking? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z From their study of English history, they learned what might be called the law of knavery: there aren’t any good ways to get rid of a bad king. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Nay," cried the King, "his falsehood is so evident, his knavery so great, that charges from his mouth are now but empty air. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Pray remember me to him, and to all my friends, and inquire about the letter; you'll find knavery in it. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Let France disdain to sully thee, With the curst kidnapper's knavery! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z Looking at the matter now, in a cool light, she blundered into sacrifices that were altogether needless, even with this aim in view, and knowledge of the knavery that was to follow. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z To follow his example would overthrow all business integrity and lead to universal knavery. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z I knew nothing of this Sunstone, nor of German knavery. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Government is a sign of imperfection, an evil necessary against knavery; it must exist only so long as this exists. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Is there nothing then to save The noodles from his ignorance and knavery and bounce? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z Folly and knavery have prevailed most where they should be tolerated the least, and presumption has been excused most where diffidence and candour are on many accounts the most necessary. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He was visibly impatient to get his bit of knavery accomplished. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Brooke was compelled to admit his own knavery in the transaction, and the consequence was that both himself and the other herald were committed to prison, himself for treachery, and the other for negligence. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z He was too straightforward to stoop to knavery. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Buffeting in a sea of knavery, wherein fraud and chicane and stratagem and pitfall boil into a seething broth, what wonder if the true and single-minded grow bewildered and confused? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Kurolyessoff's respectful manner and polite speeches did not take him in for a moment: he guessed at once that there was some knavery underneath. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z These repeated acts of knavery had quite exhausted our patience; and Capt. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z They had disguised themselves as well as they were able, and in their clumsy knavery they thought they had completely deceived the Captain. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z He received a thorough castigation at the hands of the major-domo, which put an end to his knaveries for some considerable time. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z He was, says Lord Camelford, 'a man of no character, and of parts that were calculated only for the knavery of business, in which he overreached others, and at last himself.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Echoing Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, Tutchin invites Dullness and "Immortal Nonsence" to inspire his ironic praise of the folly and knavery that now ride roughshod over such traditional values as learning, love, wit, and patriotism. Selected Poems (1685-1700) 2011-12-27T03:00:09.253Z The Inquisitors constantly succeeded, by this detestable knavery, in concealing the truth, and facilitated their object by being careful not to number the reports. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z Beware of cant—that paraphernalia of noble sentiments, artificially manufactured by politicians and newspapers for the purpose of blinding you to their knaveries. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z There is some terrible perplexing mystery, if not knavery in this matter," said Dee; "and I have been thinking, nay I more than suspect, that rascal Kelly hath a hand in it. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z It will be of great use for a divine to be acquainted with the arts, knavery, and fraud of the Roman inquisitor, in purging, correcting, or rather corrupting authors in all arts and faculties. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z But I'll not expect you there, for I remember your motto—'He who cannot rest his head upon his pillow and enjoy his forty morning winks, is up to knavery, or else he drinks!' The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Ashamed to get his living by begging and knavery, and knowing how to bear with his lot no longer, he resolved to kill himself. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z And all these knaveries are assigned to characters which the reader is expected to honor with his sympathy, or at least to receive into favor before the story concludes. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z This world thrives on honesty! it grows fat on virtue! knavery only starves! Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z He read in the newspapers every day of men holding responsible positions who embezzled and absconded, but there was never any question in his mind as between honesty and knavery. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Franklin did not know which were the most rapacious, the English or the French boatmen or porters, but the latter had with their knavery, he thought, the most politeness. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z "Nor the knaveries of men who seek power through dividing the country into classes, and setting each at the other's throat." The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Recollecting the pains that had been taken to shut her from the emperor's presence, she feared some unforeseen obstacle, or even some knavery on the part of the officers of government. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z "There is knavery in alliance with this sorcery," said the Proprietary, as he examined the cloak. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z I am sick and tired of deceit and falsehood, and the knavery that makes us appear like traitors to the country. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z That a man like Newman should give up his intellectual life at Oxford “to perform mummeries at a Catholic altar” in Birmingham, was plainly termed insanity, intellectual suicide, or sheer knavery. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z I love them so much that I can almost bear to hear her laugh at myself, provided it is at my knavery and not at my folly. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z Had every man of sense the knowledge of the theory, to which he is competent; the practice would revert to the purity of its institution, maintain the rights, and not promote the knavery, of mankind. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z The unfortunate Crimea was again surrendered to the unlimited power and endless knaveries of the captain ispravniks, and of the worthy subaltern agents of the local administration. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The melancholy thought entered my mind, that this poor old creature was not simply a dupe of her son's knavery; but that she had taken an active part in the deception. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z Time now at the last pours out much knavery, The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I plan to have an end to this knavery right now, before it gets out of hand. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Thank Heaven, my opinions of knavery are convictions! The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z O God, if I had not concealed your knavery from her, your holiest oath would not have moved her! The Ghetto A Drama in Four Acts 2011-06-04T02:00:13.903Z Each flouts the other, and thus display their professional knaveries.3 The ludicrous strokes of this piece could never have come from a bigot to the ancient superstition, however attached to the ancient creed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z For this end, carters and draymen were to be engaged, household implements to be prepared for removal, and negligence and knavery prevented by scrupulous attention. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z There is nothing but knavery in the world one would think. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z I shall ever be sure of a man's endeavours to serve me, while I hold out a lure to his knavery and interest. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z Then, too, he possessed a deplorable love for the knavery of modern financial methods. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z But the priest Samuel was irritated at having wrested from him the sceptre which his knavery had obtained. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z I knew you were most anxious to see him; that upon him depended your chance to undo some of his Excellency, the Governor's, knavery! The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The father took this expression for a strong deprecation of gratitude; the step-mother, for some piece of knavery or other; the daughter, for–words. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z He was preparing rooms for him, gaining intelligence, and, in fact, making all things ready for whatever knavery so skilful a master might have in hand. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z “Folly is the cloak of knavery; shame is pride’s cloak.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Whence, I would ask, came this act of audacity and secret knavery? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z Can there be any body in the world," cried he, "that can say thou art not an incorrigible blockhead, Sancho; a compound of folly and knavery, wherein malice also is no small ingredient? The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z There was a man in London whom I found in my reverses faithful and considerate; an honest man in a world of dishonesty and knavery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z "I gave you every opportunity to stand up and take a trouncing, but I need hardly say that after this contemptible knavery I refuse to soil my hands on you!" The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z If so, we must say he managed to scratch his own fingers with the pin, to miss his shot with the bolt, and to spill the liquor extracted from the essence of knavery. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z On the other hand, might it not have been the priests of Dagon, who resorted to this knavery from the motive already pointed out? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z Think of the many other things your Excellency would get; the air, the sunshine, the healing fragrance and coolness, and the many respites from the knavery and turmoil of political life. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z The words for all nations should be, "phantom," "imagination," "reverie," "folly," "knavery." A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Let us think it is an error, but not knavery. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z The careers of men were their meditation by day and by night; and it takes little attention to perceive that frivolity, indifference, knavery, and debauchery do not make for well-being in this world. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Why was this? because there were some incredulous; because there had happened bad examples, false oracles, divulging of sacerdotal knavery, which had awakened the good sense of the higher class among the people. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z The fun of this is, Lazarus saw all the knavery, and Tiverton never denied it! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z After such a vision, it is useless to relate any others: they are all a species either of knavery or folly. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z And so it came to pass that the old thief—procrastination—was at his usual knavery; and for want of better, set to work to ruin poor Kenny Dodd! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z It is a popular error in America to regard Louis Napoleon as a singular combination of knavery and half-wittedness. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z His dealings, it is true, are of no very extensive amount, and salt, not silver, is the medium of exchange; but there is still room for the exercise of his knavery. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The diary adds: "Now let people learn to know the souls of the great and especially of priests, how wicked, deceitful, and false they are, how full of fraud and knavery." A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Tartuferie, a new word formed from Tartuffe—the action of a hypocrite, the behavior of a hypocrite, the knavery of a false devotee; it is often used in the disputes concerning the Bull Unigenitus. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The minor rascalities do not intrude themselves on a scene of such grandeur; and though cheating, knavery, and fraud are there, they are not foreground figures. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z The universal sympathy with this hero may be encouraged and enjoyed without misgiving, because Bre'r Rabbit succeeds by subtlety, where Reynard succeeds by knavery. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z His design was to obtain a reward for their restitution,—a trick in common practice by the camel-drivers and hired escort; and this was by no means the first exhibition of his own knavery. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Were it not sin against secrecy, I would say it were a piece of gentlemanlike knavery. The Spanish Tragedy 2011-02-21T03:00:10.373Z Sure this is a knavery, A very trick, and dainty knavery, Marvellous finely carried, that's the comfort: What would these women do in ways of honor? Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z He seems quite to forget that in every country the traveller is, and must be, a mark for knavery and cheating. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z My throat was choking with the angry words which burned to leap forth and denounce him for his knavery—he who sat smiling at the success in store for him. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z I knew for the first time that stinging indignation felt by all decent aspirants for public favor upon encountering the underhand knavery which dims the lustre of democratic politics. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z He, too, has a Gorgon's head, and his face, like the Kaiser's, is marked with the stigmata of knavery and crime. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z He who sees in the struggle something artificial, produced by bad men, may perhaps attribute to the creator of the disturbance bad motives for this knavery, for this frivolous and malicious upsetting of social rest. Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z There is n't a dodge—not a piece of knavery that was ever invented—he doesn't know. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z By some mere hocus-pocus of chance, or subtly designing knavery, a real Italian gem of art had found its way into this most hybrid collection of impostures. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Jason died poor and in debt, after all his knavery and schemes. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The earth is abundantly drenched with their blood, the blood of all these Allies, so dissimilar, but so firmly united against the monstrous knavery of Germany. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z On this accursed and devilish foundation they build at Rome, and think that we should let all the world go to the devil, rather than resist their knavery. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z Besides, he has not the same wide field for his knaveries. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z "You surprise me," exclaimed the arch-priest; "but what proof have you of his knavery?" Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Etelka had great difficulty in catching his words; but she understood that they referred to some piece of knavery, when suddenly her attention was attracted by other steps in the corridor. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Nor shall knavery, through any negligence of mine, get the better of honesty, nor ignorance of knowledge, nor folly of wisdom, nor vice of virtue. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Hence come the many beggars, who by this pilgriming carry on endless knaveries and learn the habit of begging when they are not in want. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z He is presented just as he is, with his good-humor and shrewdness and indomitable pluck, and also with all his superstition and his knavery. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories But my said tutor needed no such instruction, being of himself given to all manner of knaveries. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim “Oh, none that you will ever know of, Chevalier; and I should think an addition to your inadequate pay would not come amiss,” he added, artfully, without even an effort to veil his knavery. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec His mind was far, far away from the spot, deep in cares and wiles and schemes; for his was an intriguing head, and had its own store of knaveries. Tony Butler Who could bear to have such knavery exposed if it were his own? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z If this theory unravelled many a tangled web of knavery to him, it also served to embarrass and confuse him in situations where inferior minds had never recognized a difficulty! The Fortunes Of Glencore On leaving her, he sets up as an innkeeper, and prospers, but is ruined through his own incorrigible knavery. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim He answered, shortly: "The woman's folly is no excuse for our knavery—lay the letter down, please!" Life on the Stage Who has not known something of the agony with which one dark deed of passion, lust, falsehood, knavery, baseness, can torture a human heart? Misread Passage of Scriptures In my judgment there is no other business in which so much knavery and deceit are practised as in begging, and yet it could all be easily abolished. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z "This really is a piece of knavery!" he said, as he followed his master. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Ah, mamma, remember what Talleyrand said to the Emperor: 'Give me the instructions, sire, but leave the knavery to myself.' Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) This is my nephew: I smell him in this knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 The Lamas, invested with the major part of the currency, by the voluntary donations of the faithful, centruple their fortunes by usury that puts even Chinese knavery to the blush. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Are we to be blind while we have eyes to see, fools while we have our reason, that they expect us to worship such greed, knavery and humbug? Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z Accordingly, justice has been sold with brazen impudence, knaveries and tricks and treachery have triumphed, and a multitude of simple, innocent, down-trodden creatures, poor in spirit and impoverished in substance, have wept tears of blood. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Pretty woman the Princess, but with all the characteristic knavery of her race in the eyes. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) By this light, there is some knavery afoot. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 It was a contest in which knavery, fraud and corruption, the courts, and considerable private capital, were all combined against Whitney, who appeared to be without a strong friend until Raleigh Clopton became his champion. Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction And yet they are not ashamed of their knavery, leading us hither and yon with their bulls! Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z The knavery of the comedians had furnished him with clothes cut and trimmed exactly on the pattern of those worn by Gratarol. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Switzerland—save in some few remote spots of the German cantons, and these not generally worth the visiting—is a land of extortion and knavery. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Raoul continued his role as if on the stage, and as assurance came to him his knavery crushed his better nature. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 They had allowed him to grow up in simplicity and honesty for three and twenty years without revealing to him how sweet knavery tastes. Landolin This opened the door to knavery, and added a new feature to the evil. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Choisseul, with many bows and grimaces, readily undertook to play the knave, and, with still more, took the price of his knavery, the purse already alluded to, which the earl now handed him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 So far from allaying Fr�ulein Milch's anxieties, he rather increased them by the satisfaction with which he dwelt upon the consummate knavery of this Adams. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine What is it that distinguished honesty from knavery but the hard and wiry line of rectitude and certainty in the actions and intentions? Ideas of Good and Evil He had a variety of curious stories about racing knaveries, and could clear up several mysterious circumstances, which all the penetration of the "Ring" had never succeeded in solving. One Of Them The other fellow was meagre and lanky, with thin, pinched lips and little black eyes, half buried in the head, that gave to the whole physiognomy a character of the most thorough knavery. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] "Unheard of knavery!" cried Banfy, with his hand on his sword. The Golden Age in Transylvania It was pointed out that one gentleman offered plain proof of knavery; on his right foot he wore an English boot, on the left a tennis shoe. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday If you just stood as high in integrity as I know you to stand low in knavery, it would n't serve you. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Have we not a registered catalogue of all the knaveries that have ever been practised on the unsuspecting? One Of Them And the excellent creature threw up his eyes as he denounced the knavery of his townsmen. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] It is the stalest piece of knavery going. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day It was not only folly and weakness, it was knavery, to expose the south to the enemy. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) It was in the Rocky Mountains that American trapping attained its climax of heroism and dauntless daring and knavery that out-herods comparison. The Story of the Trapper Which means that these people are to go at large, free to practise their knaveries on others, and carry into other families the misery we have seen them inflict here. One Of Them When once the Chinese has got hold of the Tartar, he employs over him all the resources of the skilful and utterly unprincipled knavery of the Chinese character. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Do you think that she is to be brought into our knaveries? Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 There was something exasperating in the spectacle of this man sitting there, with all the marks of clandestine knavery about him, merely offering bona fide goods for sale. Command We only take the two or three successful rogues that figure in high places, and we say, 'So much for knavery' Now let me jest ask you, How did they come there? One Of Them They have generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The triumph of knavery and falsehood is a bad lesson for any people; but the fruitlessness of honest industry is, if possible, a worse one. St. Patrick's Eve An Italian always despises a dupe, but entertains a sincere respect for all who detect knavery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I had seen knavery thrive too often, not to feel a kind of respect for its ability; I saw honesty too often worsted, not to feel something like contempt for its meekness. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas If they took a very disparaging view of life, it was not so much the admiration they bestowed on knavery as the hearty contempt they entertained for whatever was generous or trustful. One Of Them The Chinese are sometimes victims to their own knavery, and we have known even Tartars catch them in a snare. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] But most of all he abhorred the knaveries that craftsmen sometimes commit, of which, having been in France, and having heard something of them, he was only too well able to speak. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero The very notion of any one having once been well off, and being now in embarrassment, was, to her deeming, most satisfactory evidence of past misconduct and present knavery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I have lived to be wiser, and to see vulgarity, coarseness, meanness, knavery, nay, even convicted guilt, the favored guests of royal saloons. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas This poison of the community was their only preservation from deferred poverty, and from prisons appointed to be the reward of indolence and knavery. Essays on the Constitution of the United States The Dchiahours possess all the knavery and cunning of the Chinese, without any of their courtesy, and without their polished form of language, and they are accordingly feared and disliked by all their neighbours. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] A thunder clap that reverberated in the hollows of the mountain closed the mouth of Chram, and served the knavery of Cautin to perfection. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It would be rather good fun to find out what knavery the chap is up to and to show him off before the girls. Madge Morton's Trust The admiration of adroit knavery is the first step on the road to fraud; and he who laughs heartily at a clever trick, seldom suspects how he is "booking himself" for the same road. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas "And are not you ashamed to defend such knavery?" said Mr. Trueman. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Some time ago it was believed that the accursed knavery of the enemy had gone so far as to introduce foreign officers amongst our forces to act as spies. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II I decline, seigneur bishop, to aid in the accomplishment of such a sacrilegious knavery," the hermit-laborer answered in Latin, "but if I reveal your trick to that barbarian he will put you to death! The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Thou art a distinguished villain—Thou hast raised thyself by complicated knavery, from the dust, to exalted power. The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. Without any acts of downright knavery, he was not an honest man—hard to the poor—and a tyrannical master. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) It would, thought Nelson, be perfectly in harmony with the Banfield manager's knavery. A Canadian Bankclerk There's nought but cowardice that will prevent your knavery. Olla Podrida Hammersmith, who had watched this scene with intense interest, saw, or believed that he saw, in this flash the natural indignation of a candid mind face to face with arrant knavery. Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories And it seemed to me that, by translating it, I should make myself a party to his knavery as well as to his dulness. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Nevertheless, by rewarding the exorcisers, by throwing the reins to the Capuchins, and letting them triumph over France, he gave no slight encouragement to that piece of knavery. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The rest of his effusions are pretentious, mystical, muddle-headed rubbish, half nonsense half knavery, as "The White King's Prophecy," "Supernatural Light," "The Starry Messenger," and "Annus Tenebrosus, or the Black Year." Old and New London Volume I You are not well acquainted with the knavery of the world. Olla Podrida For 'tis full of brawls and knavery; Vainly many cats have fallen Victims to an empty bravery. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. Opposite stands the manufactory of the ingenious Bramah, whose locks baffle knavery, and whose condensing engines promise such important results to philosophy and the mechanic arts. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew Girard was to be brought forward as the dupe and prey of Cadière’s knavery. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages It is a dirty business and the sight of those sleek, cunning, pimple-faced young men, in their fancy vests and dirty cuffs, always sickens me, because I know the knavery in their hearts. Aliens You cannot make punishment too stern for subtle knavery. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work In every settlement of this kind,—no matter how choice the original materials,—vice will soon preponderate over virtue, intemperance over sobriety, knavery over honesty, oppression over liberty, and impiety over godliness. Thoughts on African Colonization I see folly join with knavery, and together make up public spirit and public opinions. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature But he returns to find the people here almost in a state of starvation in the midst of plenty, brought on by the knavery or incompetency of government agents. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital We support them; we are obliged to invent, for their benefit, all sorts of knavery, in which they are always ready to take a share; and, withal, they are the masters, and we the servants. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Who would not weary of witnessing the present knavery, ungodliness and blasphemy against Christ and his Gospel, even as Lot wearied of the ungodliness he beheld in Sodom? Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent The knavery is seen to some extent in his method of workmanship as a man of letters. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Hearing the praise of his exploits, he studies craft, and seeks parental admiration by adroit knaveries. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty He trembled to think what knavery his wicked kinsfolk meant, though he himself was their helpless slave; the target of kicks, cuffs, and the robbery of all his earnings. Orphans of the Storm The whole of the money was at once expended; and nearly £500 was appropriated by what Arthur Young called "the knavery of Commissioners and Attorneys." A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 In Bunyan's opinion it was knavery in disguise, and certain to degrade and demoralise everyone who acted upon it. Bunyan The history of the Home Rule movement will in future ages be quoted as the most extraordinary combination of knavery, slavery, and credulity the world has ever seen. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule To a mind so tainted, will flock stories of consummate craft, of effective knavery, of fraud covered by its brilliant success. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty I will permit them then to go so far only, as to do no great sin and have no great assault and be kept from swearing and knavery. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained But paper money offers far more extensive facilities to knavery than a metallic currency. The Paper Moneys of Europe Their Moral and Economic Significance With his employer, Keimer, Franklin had little sympathy, despising both his knavery and his false enthusiasms. Benjamin Franklin To “resist not evil” seemed to him then only a rather feeble sort of knavery. Dr. Sevier "No men are more clever in hiding their knaveries than magicians;" and in seven or eight other places he endeavors to expose "their falsehoods, their deceptions, the uselessness of their art," and laughs at it. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. They have generally a great knowledge of cattle, have much fluency of tongue, and are, above all, endowed with a knavery beyond all shame. Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The astonishing thing is that all this knavery was devised, or winked at, not only by low class politicians but by statesmen of renown. The Paper Moneys of Europe Their Moral and Economic Significance Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Their universal bad character, therefore, for fickleness, infidelity, ingratitude, revenge, malice, rage, depravity, laziness, knavery, thievishness, and cunning, though not deficient in capacity and cleverness, renders them people of no use in society. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement And in his treatise on the soul, he exclaims, "What shall we say of magic? what almost all the world says of it—that it is mere knavery." The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. “My Lord,” answered Sir Bruin, “let me alone with Reynard; I am not such a truant in discretion to become a mock to his knavery;” and thus, full of jollity, the bear departed. The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition The same principle holds in the case of sins more subtle and refined, where the malicious knavery of the devil must be resisted. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost She knew a good deal about horses, but nothing whatever about the knavery of betting, the shoddy tricks of it and the despicable spirit in which this great game is often played. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar They are not ignorant of the frauds, the knaveries, the fables, and hypocrisies, by which that system is supported. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge "One of the most singular advantages we derive from machinery is the check it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the knavery of human agents." The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production If they lived on our rocky soil, and under our inclement skies, their shrewdness would sometimes border upon knavery, and their frugality sometimes degenerate into parsimony. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans This practice now frequently obtains since the world has learned to use the Gospel to conceal its malice and knavery, to adorn it with the name of a divinely appointed office. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost He had good drinks to choose from; he kept his accounts strictly, but without any knavery; he did not forbid merriment, but would not endure drunkenness. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Each is neck-high in the mire of lies, each has plundered the other, and must be dumb for shame of his knavery.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Low-bred and vulgar, he had made a fortune by petty knavery and small rascalities. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston Folly and knavery were, for a time, completely in the ascendant. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson But who is vigilant enough to elude such knavery and to make the children of the devil honest? Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost I do indeed despise the political knavery that deliberately passes drink regulations as war measures and then preserves them as peace measures. What I Saw in America There was no mistaking his 252 earnestness, she thought, for there was no evidence of deceit or knavery in his face, nor in the eyes that were steadily watching her. The Trail to Yesterday There’s knavery here, my boy; there’s some sort of influence behind Lindman. 'Firebrand' Trevison These people always created much confusion and quarrelling among our otherwise peaceable islanders, by their knavery and frequent assassinations; and also gave the Missionaries a great deal of trouble. Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity By "filthiness" he means the impure life of the world—indulgence, voluptuousness and knavery of every sort. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost You may go to your game of wickets, or of hurdles, or of cards, and any knavery that is in you may stay unchallenged all the while. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Leave your quibbling, sir, and speak plump to the point—if habit hasn’t hardened your heart, and given a system to your knavery, answer me this: lord Austencourt has privately married my daughter? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 It was he who had excited his brother to all this knavery, in order that he himself might if possible gain possession of Smaragdine. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers They were, indeed, congenial spirits, and agreed upon one point, that it was better to make a living by knavery than by doing honest work for honest wages. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia It is averse to knavery, to crafty guile and double-dealing. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost At times they make use of unjust and compromising expressions: Thus the tobacco monopoly is “an imposition” or “a bit of knavery.” The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century I fancy that through some knavery or blundering on your servant's part, I must have got a different steed from the one you intended for me. Stray Studies from England and Italy A pastor having punished her for some knavery, she cast a spell upon him by means of some earth upon which he had walked, and which she bewitched. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. I will yet hit you better; you have killed many a lamb and many an innocent beast, and would impose the fault upon me, but you shall find the price of your knavery. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Behold the knavery and licentiousness of these people! Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Bert's most dangerous rival for the prize had been put out of the way, and Cohen, whom he cordially disliked, had been well punished for his knavery. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia There is some terrible perplexing mystery, if not knavery, in this matter," said Dee; "and I have been thinking—nay, I more than suspect—that rascal Kelly hath a hand in it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 "They arn't over-like to be brothers," said he, with the grin of one too well accustomed to knavery to trust any thing opposed to his own observation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The monasteries were the result of the knavery of one class and the ignorance and superstition of another. A Yacht Voyage Round England His grace is not intended to cloak our shame, nor should the licentious abuse the kingdom of Christ as a shield for their knavery. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The King was supposed to have, with his wonted and infallible sagacity, made the discovery of Ralegh's knavery long since. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Every where I have found kindness and truth written on the faces and evinced in the acts of this people, while in Italy rapacity and knavery are the order of the day. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The hypocrite who cloaks his knavery is less dangerous to the commonwealth than he who transgresses in the face of day. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Education in the hands of the poor would be a powerful agent with which they would alleviate their own condition, and defend themselves against oppression and knavery. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch There was knavery among the Radicals, and there was violence among the Conservatives. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement This was low knavery seeking protection behind the black mantle of treason. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Its priests, we must admit, ‘in spite of their knaveries and their vices, were enthusiasts ready to perish for their doctrines.’ Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet In trafficking with us some displayed a disposition to knavery, and the appellation of thieves is certainly applicable to them. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure There is something in knavery that will hardly bear the inspection of a piercing eye; and you may, more generally, observe in a sharper an unsteady and confused look. The Young Man's Guide Grant it that one of your political measures is rank imbecility, your acts in exposing the essential knavery of our phenomenal humbugs are beautiful and full of goodness and wisdom. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 He was on the point of exposing this cheap bit of knavery when the young man glanced in his direction. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest And some even make superstition a plea for atheism, and stupidity a plea for knavery, perverting their nature, like a stick bent double, from inability to set it straight. Plutarch's Morals This is a story of a chap that I think must have had a birthmark of knavery somewhere concealed about his body. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Although they are such a poor, miserable people, they are, nevertheless, licentious and proud, and given to knavery and scoffing. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 By the knavery of men without capitol, who insure to double and treble the value of their stock, and realise an honest penny by setting fire to their stores. Diary in America, Series One Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and 80 fery honest knaveries. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Such oppressive acts by narrow-minded good men were supplemented by the knavery of unscrupulous bad men. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Great contention arose therefrom, much knavery, much disillusion; finally the whole had to be wiped out. Debts of Honor Hazlitt gives two examples of this species of knavery. The Book-Hunter at Home Precious rogue, For if there’s any knavery on foot, He, I am sure, is the contriver on’t. The Comedies of Terence In Algeria this race is generally thought to present a picture of arrogance, knavery and rank cowardice not equaled on the face of the globe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn And curst be the guile Of treacherous knavery That throws o'er our isle In its tyranny vile The mantle of slavery. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century A good dinner, provided in the back-shop, completes the illusion—and when once the Chinese has established his hold, he employs all the resources of a skilful and utterly unprincipled knavery. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 How much knavery in actual progress in this wilderness of men in London might one not hope to stop if this doctrine of compensation could be brought home? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles The system of passes for the Mediterranean opened the way to a good deal of knavery; ships sailed under false colours, or, being themselves at war with Algiers, carried passes purchased from her allies. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs And that implies false dealing, sharp practice, trickery, knavery. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles In lying, thieving and knavery the Beria is not a whit inferior to his brother gipsy of Europe. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II She brought before his mind by example how superior was earnestness to trivialty, strict integrity to knavery and falsehood, goodness and piety to wickedness and infidelity. Hubert's Wife A Story for You "Take them bind them disarm them . . . take them prisoners to Luderitzbucht to pay for their knavery," muttered the old man savagely. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa They seem designed to place a premium on fraud and knavery, and to assist the professional projector and stock manipulator in reaping gains from innocent—generally very innocent—stockholders. Monopolies and the People Monsieur Vaudreuil is more the gentleman of pleasure, a governor with a large token of the gallant in him, but for chicane, knavery and devilry commend me to this fellow the Intendant Bigot. The Black Colonel Let thy Greek send for his tools, and the cask shall be opened in our presence; then perhaps, thou wilt recognise thine own knavery.” The Pacha of Many Tales But he guessed, and upon his guess he built up a theory of financial knavery. Benjamin Franklin Who boast of what they cannot do Both knavery and folly show. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress It was like a hateful return to the old life to find himself face to face with those men, and to have to tell over again the story of their knavery and his own folly. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Yes, let men call it vulgar, if they will, The trade that thrives while sleeps the sleepyhead; Yes, knavery, not bravery, call it still, To overreach confiding folk a-bed. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika He was therefore obliged to have recourse to sheer knavery to compass his object. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy By trickery and knavery, Boris Godounof was elected czar by the douma or council of nobles, a body presided over by his friend the Patriarch, and containing many of his partisans. The Story of Russia As to the Dahcotahs themselves, they never considered it possible that it might be a knavery of the prophet's, but attributed it altogether to his mystic lore. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 Thus placed between two fires, and in danger of being exterminated, they resorted to their old cunning and knavery. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 Vice and virtue, honor and knavery, true love and duplicity, struggle desperately and incessantly for mastery until the mind is bewildered and the heart and soul are stirred to their very depths. The Blunders of a Bashful Man Was it not merely wicked imposture and cunning knavery? Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem But Gunzelin though an old man was full of knavery and falsehood, and so instead of wooing for his nephew he ingratiated himself with Gerda's father. Legends of the Rhine During the brief colloquy between Galloway and the innkeeper his brain had been busy fitting together the whole intricate design of knavery. The Shrieking Pit Their violence and knavery Leave not a church or living free. German Culture Past and Present No one could ever know or assess the extent of the knavery which has arisen, flourished, and grown fat in this long-protracted war. On the Heels of De Wet He was very cunning to be sure; but the "afflicted" girls could see through his knavery. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem Dodsley, you may believe, laughed at the lawyer; but that does not lessen the dirty knavery.... Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica Conjurors retained their repute by much knavery and collusion with others. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales But America is a fine country for such knavery. Canada and the Canadians Volume I It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform "To end the rule of knavery; To break the yoke of slavery; To give the world delivery." Winning a Cause World War Stories He gave up the charge of knavery; well and good: but where was the logical necessity of his bringing another? Apologia pro Vita Sua Their names sink in the bottomless pit of oblivion; but their acts of folly or knavery curse the body politic and at last prove its ruin. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry For all this, ventriloquism, trickery, and shrewd knavery are sufficient explanations. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America This to protect aliens from imposition and knavery. Aliens or Americans? Let not ambition mock their humble toil, Their vulgar crimes and villainy obscure; Nor rich rogues hear with a disdainful smile, The low and petty knaveries of the poor. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 This last consideration might not weigh so much with Florence, but Dodger was more practical, and he wished to restore her to the social position which she had lost through the knavery of her cousin. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World Bubbles that, bursting, impoverish multitudes, will be blown up by cunning knavery, with stupid credulity as its assistants and instrument. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry If there are atheists, whom must one blame, if not the mercenary tyrants of souls, who, making us revolt against their knaveries, force a few weak minds to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary To give what might be kept without suspicion is, without doubt, arrant knavery. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The burning breast she will not bide, For wrongs of wanton knavery. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Both were rogues in their dealings, only the Europeans had the advantage of superior knowledge, which enabled them to rob with superior dexterity, and to cloak their knavery under the name of barter. The Moravians in Labrador This was not reached in Ben Jonson's time, but fools and their artifices are by him discarded for something more natural, for country bumpkins and servants, ludicrous in their stupidity, knavery and drunkenness. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Either by the folly or the knavery of the messenger the papers fell into the hands of Hamilton, who read them to the Convention. Claverhouse It is a ſhocking diſgrace of modern governments, that they are driven to this pitiful piece of knavery, to draw money from the people. The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Carroll's eyes were looking for knavery, and the men's were looking for suspicion of knavery. The Debtor A Novel No evidence has been found against the others you have named which could in any way connect them with this folly—or shall we say knavery, since you yourself have made use of the word. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Thy ability to manage such a design I know very well; but how thou wilt dispense with the knavery of it, I am yet to learn. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour String-actuated knaveries, more or less similar to the mouse-in-the-kitchen one, are always devised for the plaguing of a new night nurse. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital This was not the knavery of the vender. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three The citizen who supposes that he does all his duty when he votes, places a premium upon political knavery. Public Speaking Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use Their knavery and folly to excuse. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age As the world goes one must practise a little knavery, or resolve to leave the world. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour It is when he uses the phrase 'to plume up my will in double knavery.' Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth I was about to encounter the assailing eyes of knavery. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business That is the manifestation which they might make in case of any treachery or knavery on my part. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. But this it is to have a bad cause, which puts men of necessity upon knavery; and that knavery is commonly found out. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 When, however, he found the incomers were inclined to accuse him of trick or knavery, he spoke out bravely enough. What Necessity Knows All the French that lately did prance There, up and downe in bravery, Now are all sent back to France, King Charles hath smelt some knavery. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 As to his knaveries, they were few, and more humorous than injurious. Miscellanea It would have been performed in 1768 but for the intrigues of jealous rivals and the knavery of an impresario. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. He was the Napoleon of knavery, and established an uncontrolled empire over all the practitioners of crime. Jack Sheppard A Romance Speak, satire; for there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented land appear Less happy now in times of peace than war? English Satires His honest pride and integrity of heart raised him above it: neither did he sink into the whine and cant of imposture, nor the slang of knavery. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Hycy Burke, I am told, is a compound of great knave and gross fool, the knavery rather prevailing. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two He accordingly replied, conscious that hypocrisy was out of the question— "The fact is, sir, I want you to aid me in a piece of knavery." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two In Darrell's open features, frankness and honour were written in legible characters; while, in Jack's physiognomy, cunning and knavery were as strongly imprinted. Jack Sheppard A Romance "Well, then, let her come; do you go and engage her; but see that she will not extort dishonest terms from you, because there is nothing but fraud and knavery among these wretches." The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Remove your things instantly; but that shall not prevent me from tracing you and handing you over to justice for your knavery and fraud. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I conjectured that, whoever he might be, he would be distinguished for his egotism and his knavery. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions There's no knavery in the grave, my Vulture. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Sanctimonious fanatics with their power of darkness sought to persecute us, lest their folly or knavery be exposed to the light of day.... The Haskalah Movement in Russia I hold it, then, of small matter, that, for a time, Miss Hurribattle mistook two charlatans, three-fifths knavery, the rest fanaticism, for honest workers in the Lord's vineyard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The minds of all men plod the same rough roads of sense; and in spite of much knavery, all win at times "an ampler ether, a diviner air." Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned “What right has he to speak of her as his darling Florence,” he exclaimed, “while he is confessing his own knavery?” The Claverings The moment your necessities are known, knavery will be immediately at work, and assume its guardianship over folly. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two To end or mitigate the ills of slavery, The Planter's avarice, the Driver's knavery? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood There is knavery in this desertion, but there is no folly. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies I'd like to teach the beggar that honesty can be as intelligent as knavery; that in spite of his strength of cunning, law and right are stronger. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World There are knaves in this world, and no one can suppose that he has a special right to be exempted from their knavery because he himself is honest. The Claverings Indeed there is a monarchical spirit in knavery, which has never yet been observed. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two "I would willingly be spared the details of your knavery," said Mistress Nutter, somewhat impatiently. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Weyler had no 20,000 men to spare, but he did not dare tell the truth lest the facts of his knavery might come out. The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls This Piece of knavery was received as the acme of cuteness; and I well recollect the language in which the brute wound up his self-laudations: "If any chap can steal faster than me, let him." The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America K. is decidedly of opinion, that nothing but resolute conduct will overcome the fickleness and knavery of the Chinese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time What a bounty on dishonesty and knavery in an agent is this? Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two He must have been the victim of mesmeric influence not to see through their vile knavery in pleading poverty when they were asked to carry out an act of common humanity. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon The story of his knavery at the State Convention had been smothered in the interests of the party. The Ramrodders A Novel Both knavery and delusion were at work, as the following incidents will abundantly manifest. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Robin Good-fellow, hating such knavery, put a trick upon him in this manner. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' "It's one of knavery and roguery," replied Bob, "sure devil a thing one of you knows only to believe in your Pope." Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two He raised it on high, greatly puzzled, and then, as ever when he suspected knavery, his eyes sought Tommy, who was sitting on a form, his arms proudly folded. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood Yes Sir, and go before ye, And round about ye, why do you rail at me For that that was your own sin, your own knavery? Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) A contagion of knavery ran through the official life of the colony; and to resist it demanded no common share of moral robustness. Montcalm and Wolfe For thy proved knavery, coining votes i’ the court MEN. The Seven Plays in English Verse This was the way, then, that the humble and primitive gobernador, who had presented himself to the travelers barefoot, was enriching himself by the knaveries of office! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Consequently, these people are not separated on account of their aforesaid customs, nor of the danger and opportunity offered them for connivance and knavery. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century For twenty years have I been in your household, but I have not practised knavery. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) It is the duty of the community to rebuke and repress these pernicious glosses, making the truth heard and felt, that inordinate expenditure is knavery and crime. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness No crime is too desperate, no knavery too hazardous, no villainy too despicable, for them to attempt, and too often successfully execute. With Links of Steel "Where Abel Doe is, there, thee may be sure, there is knavery!" said Nathan; demanding earnestly if Roland had seen no other white man in the party. Nick of the Woods How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of to-day who spent last night wading through brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wickedness! Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs It must, however, be acknowledged that not a few of them are much addicted to knavery and well skilled in the art of cheating. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The folly of his own side is exhibited as relentlessly as the knavery of his opponents. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles I inquire, amused at this theatrical display of their childish knavery. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Booksellers by their knavery or their fidelity cannot kill us or cure us. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I He had my confidence; such confidence as confederates in knavery can bestow. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) A man may call it what he will, brutality or bravery, I'd rather have the prize-ring back than give a purse to knavery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Plunderers of all sorts flourish in a species of blind whirl of knavery; but no worthy person derives any good from the cruel waste of money and strength and energy. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour In it originate all knavery, perjury, and fraud. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I No wrangle here o'er things of small avail— No knavery, nor charity betrayed— But comrade beings—'Stalwart, steadfast, good. The California Birthday Book How their cross reached Fourth Avenue one may only surmise, but there surely was knavery at some point of its transit. The Collectors We palm more frauds upon our simple selves Than knavery puts upon us. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini "Why, it's the most high-handed piece of knavery I've heard of for many a long day!" he exclaimed when the information formation was brought to him by Vinton and the others. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty He felt himself—absurdly once again—to be mysteriously associated with them in a piece of sharp practice or even of knavery. Mr. Prohack They contain many thrusts at the foolishness and knavery of society, especially that genteel portion of it with which the writer, by birth, education and experience, was familiar. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities For knavery, untruthfulness, and wickedness, I have never seen anything, in all my business experience of forty years, that will compare with this. History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome What knavery is this that you have here? The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Upon this every part of the senate-house resounded with exclamations, that with Carthaginian knavery men had been chosen to solicit a renewal of the old peace who did not recollect its terms. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 Falsehood, which, as truth means honesty, is taken here for treachery and knavery, does not stand for falsehood in general, but for the dishonesty now operating.—JOHNSON. Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. The natives of St. Jago, with those of the neighbouring islands, are mostly black, or of a mixed colour, very encroaching in their manners, and much addicted to knavery. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa "He had no judgment of character," and was too honest to believe in knavery. What I Remember, Volume 2 Odd were the absurdities of Maori lay preachers, and knavery was sometimes added to absurdity. The Long White Cloud I know not thy peer for cunning and knavery. The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance Tartuffe, a knave, a creation of Molière's, who makes a cloak of religion to cover his knaveries, and the name of the play in which the character appears, Molière's greatest. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Besides being very debauched, he has more knavery than mission. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II They are chastised on the least disorder, and without the least humanity; yet are they cheerful and full of knavery. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Why, after the careful inculcations of rectitude during education, comes there in afterlife all this knavery? English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice But you complain of corruption among contractors, and of knavery among politicians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 They were all his debtors, and in presence of the whole world he would cast their ingratitude, their meanness, their malice, and knavery in their face, and humble them by recalling the past. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel "So far," he said, "I have only trifled with knavery." Love and Mr. Lewisham This annuity, however, she loses through the knavery of her man of business. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The sea is not more unstable than are those rogues in their knavery. The Red Rover The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate. The Saint's Tragedy In England, and other European states, it is pretty much limited to the unemployed of the upper classes, who furnish a never-ending supply of dupes to knavery. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Our merchants are accused of all sorts of dishonest management; our brokers, of stock-jobbing; our city aldermen, of bribery; our lawyers, of knavery; our justices, of complicity with the guilty. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada The Pope would certainly not have tolerated this knavery, as Fra Sebastiano can bear witness, since he wished me to complain to Clement and have the notary hanged. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti "I have often heard mention made of the Rover," returned the countryman; "but never to enter into any of the intricate particulars of his knavery." The Red Rover We all are—we who have not taken the trouble to resent and put an end to the knavery we knew was going on. The Fight for Conservation Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery, flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him. Ten Boys from Dickens To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train. A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind I say wilful because the instances I have mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers He was their champion who, in the brutal fury of his own pursuit, could cast no stigma upon them for the hot knavery of theirs. Martin Chuzzlewit He was an object of much suspicion, although he had never actually been caught at any knavery. A Hero of Our Time And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people To have his confidence in his own knavery so shattered at a blow—to be within his own knowledge such a miserable tool—was like being paralysed. Dombey and Son I thought 'twas your knavery to take it away: come, give it me again. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Even if his father could not be persuaded, they could fly to Ptarth, laying all the blame of the knavery and intrigue that had thrown four great nations into war, upon the shoulders of Nutus. Thuvia, Maid of Mars It is something to be appreciated, even in knavery. The Old Curiosity Shop Mithridates, through the knavery of his officers, not knowing for some time the want of provision in his camp, was troubled in mind that the Cyzicenians should hold out against him. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans On that occasion, as in 1720, knavery gathered a rich harvest from cupidity, but both suffered when the day of reckoning came. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 Kami is quite capable of suspecting a man of any knavery. Baron Trigault's Vengeance For this set of gentry are adepts in all the arts of knavery and tricking. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) The scamp has been obliged to fly, as I learn, for some knavery, and has found his way abroad. The Old Curiosity Shop But in this affair, Septimuleius gave as great signs of his knavery, as he had done before of his cruelty; for having taken out the brains, he had filled the skull with lead. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans This fact alone ought to rescue his memory from the charge of knavery, so often and so unjustly brought against him. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 "Let him enter," said De Montfort, "but no knavery, now, we are a thousand men here, well armed and ready fighters." The Outlaw of Torn These were two brothers living upon the earth who practised every kind of knavery. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The trouble arose from a little stock exchange operation which M. Ferdinand had engaged in—an affair which savored a trifle of knavery. The Count's Millions And so he capped his knavery with insolence. The Certain Hour Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool. Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious cruelty incidental to them, the plotting and the lying and the bribing, the blustering and bragging, the screaming egotism, the hurrying and worrying. The Jungle The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Crushed by the overpowering evidence against him, he allowed himself to be searched, and without much demur consented to refund the fruit of his knavery, to the amount of two thousand louis. The Count's Millions But the world is so full of knavery now, That we know not whom to trust, I may say to you. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind. Albert Durer The lawyer reminded me of my youth, and warned me against the knavery of mankind, who he affirmed are universally prone to prey upon one another. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Nor can this be prevented; for every new check is only a transfer of power from intelligent to ignorant hands; and ignorance, however honest, is a more expensive manager and easier victim than knavery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 But their utility is more than counterbalanced by their importunity and knavery. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred Then I went into the markets, where I saw petty knavery In false-measuring corn, and in scales, That wanted no less than two ounces in the pound. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 "For," he whispered to his companion fellows in knavery, "the illusion will only last until the same hour to-morrow." Welsh Fairy Tales The art of begging was then only art without science: the native genius of knavery unaided by method or discipline. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 The result, finally, was a compound of knavery and superstition. Outline of Universal History The mixture of fanatical choler and grotesque jocularity, in which he rolls forth his charges of incontinence against Morus, and of petty knavery against Vlac, is only saved from being unseemly by being ridiculous. Milton Come, sir, I think I found out your knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 "After all," said my adored Dorothy, "I prefer the rogue who when he goes about his knaveries has at least the decency to wear a mask." Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Ah! our knave has found his match in another, who has far better tricks in his sack, a thousand kinds of knaveries and of wily words. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Fashion!—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Poetical Works Oh, that such men should victims be Of law, and law's vile knavery. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Nay, come and go with me, good, honest man; For if thou go with him, he will teach thee all his knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Was it necessary, in order to satisfy their ambition, to stand unrivalled through the world for folly as well as for knavery? Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 They are, however, not only eminent in knavery, but that their folly keeps full pace with their ignorance and stupidity; the following are splendid proofs. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Nowhere else can you have such a chance of studying human imbecility, knavery and greed. The Mountebank He knew their stupidity and their knavery better than any one: but that did not keep him from supporting them in order to retain their support. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House We frequently see the workingman leap the barrier into the bourgeoisie, and then disclose himself as a unique flower of knavery, extortion and misdirected ingenuity. Youth and Egolatry He rejoices that— they must sweep my way, And marshall me to knavery. Shakspere and Montaigne A hundred tricks are played on him by shallow knaves, and the result is but to convince us of the folly of knavery. Henry Fielding: a Memoir At the meeting the case against the poet is first stated; he has not only lampooned women, he has taught their husbands how to counter their knaveries and is an atheist. Authors of Greece He must surely know by this time that indulgences were sheer knavery and trickery. Life of Luther Perhaps he knew how Joash had been balked by the knavery of the priests who were diligent in collecting money, but slow in spending it on the Temple. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes There was a great deal of downright knavery in business, but there was another class who satisfied their consciences by being as honest as they could. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World Falsehood, which as truth means honesty, is taken here for treachery and knavery, does not stand for falshood in general, but for the dishonesty now operating. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies This is a notable couple—and have met But for some secret knavery. Pelham — Complete All this dirt, ignorance, disease, this knavery and oppression, this maiming of men in body and soul in the coal-camps of America—all this did not exist—it was the hallucination of an "irresponsible" brain! King Coal : a Novel I repeat, sir, that I consider you guilty of treachery, falsehood, and knavery. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family The Earl of Ridgeley, smitten to the heart by the remembrance of his roguery and knavery, has agreed to make this full restitution. The Yeoman Adventurer In these lines he seems to accuse the butchers of three faults—cruelty, knavery, and extortion. The Captiva and the Mostellaria But it is a pitiful truth that our public life has become synonymous with knavery. The American Union Speaker He was the power of public opinion, making itself felt in this place of knavery and fear! King Coal : a Novel "Sir Arthur, I have so often warned you of the knavery of that rascally quack, that I really wonder you should quote him to me." The Antiquary — Volume 02 Whither are we going in the ocean of social tempests, of political knaveries, of religious falsehoods? The Grip of Desire I am not so past my sences But at this age can smell your knavery. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 The inevitable result of this inroad was that ignorance and savagery got the upper hand; consequently violence and knavery established their dominion, and knights and priests became a burden to mankind. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. —Brahmins.—Idols.—Religion.—Humility of the poorer classes.—Their low condition.—Their apathy.—The police.—Their extortions and knavery. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter The language of Oldbuck also intimated a conviction of his knavery, which Sir Arthur heard without making any animated defence. The Antiquary — Volume 02 Mr. Godwin shall know what an innocent, simple child she was when we pushed her into this knavery, and how we dared not tell her of our purpose lest she should draw back. A Set of Rogues I haven't been detected in any knavery; I'm respectful to my elders. Plays That he is a disease in the body where he liveth were as strange a thing to doubt as whether there be knavery in horse-coursers. Character Writings of the 17th Century Increased pay does not mean decrease of knavery. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter We were perfectly aware of this knavery, but did not think it convenient to take any notice. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Don Sanchez proposes a very artful way to make Mr. Godwin a party to our knavery, etc. A Set of Rogues I conjecture here's some knavery,—fast locked with sleep, in good faith. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 Who, sir? your minion, sir; Prodigality, The captain elected of all roisting knavery; He will be hang'd, I warrant him, shortly. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 You do not know this man," he threw in, "you do not know his knavery, Sir! Erick and Sally True, you will find fraud, cunning, knavery, and robbery, but you will find also the most unsophisticated innocence. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) As knavery, so folly, that is not reclaimable, is to be speedily despatched; business is to be freed from obstruction, and society from a nuisance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I Faith, agreed: let's go into some place where we are not known, and there set up the art of knavery with the second edition. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 You are still in your knavery; but, sith I cannot have his life, I will procure his banishment for ever. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Not on account of thy sin art thou forbidden, my son," returned Buddha, "but on account of the ridiculous and unsavoury plight to which thy knavery and disobedience have reduced thee. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales About other criminals you must be informed by the accuser, but about the knavery of these men you know everything. The Orations of Lysias His sharp quick black eyes, acute features, ready sardonic smile, promptitude and effrontery, gave him altogether what is called among the vulgar a knowing look, which generally implies a tendency to knavery. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Fray him? a vengeance on't! all our shifting knavery's known; we are counted very vagrants. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 Go, sir; you were best leave this knavery. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Bought and sold he was; and of course it is understood that, if you buy a knave, and expressly in consideration of his knaveries, you secretly undertake not to hang him. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater You were so good, Monsieur, as to tell me that you would give up all the deserters who have fled to you to escape chastisement for their knavery. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV "What was't ye were speering at us, sir?" she resumed, with an appearance of stolidity so speedily assumed, as showed there was a good deal of knavery mixed with her folly. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 He was, however, under Vaudreuil's foolish orders and he had no power to check Bigot's knaveries. The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm I pray God, they be honest, for there may be much knavery in the dark: faith, if I were there, I would have some knavery with them. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 Again, while knavery and folly are no bar to rhetoric, mathematics, or copper-working, no knave or fool can get on as a sponger. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Behind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight. The Poems of Schiller — Third period The man's face expressed rather knavery than vice, and a disposition to sharpness, cunning, and roguery, more than the traces of stormy and indulged passions. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Of Appelmann's knavery—Item, how the birthday of her Highness was celebrated, and Sidonia managed to get to the dance, with the uproar caused thereby. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 From whence is it that the knave is generally so quick-sighted to those symptoms and operations of knavery, which often dupe an honest man of a much better understanding? History of Tom Jones, a Foundling If Heaven has endowed me with the gift of knavery, I am not one of those degenerate minds who hide the talents they have received. The Blunderer By implication we make the further statement that, if he be not cleared of folly, he will stand condemned of knavery. Deductive Logic On Carrión's Heirs of knavery the three have put the brand, And paid the debt the lord Cid set upon them furthermore. The Lay of the Cid But when she heard Sidonia talk with such knowledge of the trap-door, she guessed there was some knavery in the matter, and though she sat the night there she was determined to watch. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 You played to enable a friend to get back from a knave what he lost as a fool, and to punish the knavery that he could not well hope to reform. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story For the generality of people he went away clever with his knavery. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 "From the general knavery and villainy of mankind." was his hard answer, "which always wishes to abet successful guilt." The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Later when I grew to know him intimately, I could always tell when he was lying, or making the winning move in some bit of knavery, by that nervous trick of the eyelids. Captain Macklin Of Appelmann's knavery—Item, how the birthday of her Highness was celebrated, and Sidonia managed to get to the dance, with the uproar caused thereby. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 His calm account of their unblushing knavery is entirely free from either vindictive malice or superior contempt. Essays on Russian Novelists Now by that time his breaking was come to his creditors' ears, he had by craft and knavery made so sure of what he had, that his creditors could not touch a penny. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 He resorted to sharp practice, knavery, and all the forms of legal blackmail; it was not long before his bank account began to swell. Jane Cable And that capped the climax—that proved stark, raving madness, if it did not prove downright knavery and fraud. Love's Pilgrimage Whereupon Sidonia got into the carriage with him, never discovering his knavery on account of the darkness, and about midnight they reached the inn at Bruchhausen. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 They come ashore in the quarter of the Furlani, and all the zest of the play lies in the equivoque which contrasts the knavery of the inhabitants with the naivete of the visitors. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The young editor wasted no time in preliminaries; he was an international revolutionist, and no capitalist government was going to draft him for its bloody knaveries. Jimmie Higgins And when they heard the labourers pleading, they too waxed bold to give excuses, but what ready answers the old Serpent had for them with all their knavery and learning! The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men, into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk! Short Stories for English Courses Do not pitch me into vile corners of knavery . ?tis not a whittling chore to seek Good if discernment stays lucid , gumption remains yours while will defies still the convenience of hearsay . NATURAE It delights in holes and subterranean shelters; it will not disdain filth; it is capable of lying, stealing, trickery, knavery. Caesar's Column When honestly dealt, faro is the fairest of all gambling games, but it is intricate, and may hide much knavery. The Spoilers I saw knavery in the whites of his upturned eyes. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The claims to superiority of some of the titled people on the other side are silly enough when one examines them—the records of knavery and thievery and illegitimacy and insanity. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
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