He doesn't look like it, or talk like it, or act like it.' 'How many cases do we know in which some abominable unexpected villainy has destroyed the happiness and respectability of a family?'

Munchausen, you will recall, in the placing of his magic countries, was not above this agreeable villainy.

The Moor loves her intensely, and marries her; but Iago, by artful villainy, induces him to believe that she loves Cassio too well.

The virtue of Emilia is such as we often find, worn loosely, but not cast off; easy to commit small crimes, but quickened and alarmed at atrocious villainies.

Two attractive villainies presented themselves to his ingenious mind, and he naturally hesitated between them.

If he was amused at the ease with which fools can be humbugged, he must also have been astounded at the awful villainy of those who, perfect strangers to him, had perjured themselves for the sake of notoriety.

He is a man incapable of the caddish villainy you impute.

Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, entertainments, jubilees, embassies, sports, plays; then again, as in a new-shipped scene, treasons, cheatings, tricks, robberies, enormous villainies in all kinds, funerals, deaths, new discoveries, expeditions; now comical, then tragical matters.....

People would say that the truth was a charge of mere melodramatic villainy; forgetting that nearly all villains really are melodramatic.

People would say that the truth was a charge of mere melodramatic villainy; forgetting that nearly all villains really are melodramatic.

There happened to be on the boat at the time, several companies of citizen soldiers, who, shocked by the awful spectacle, expressed their decided abhorrence of the institution of Slavery, declaring that it was not for such peculiar villainy, that their fathers fought and bled on the battle field.

Of course, Dick Turpin and Jerry Abershaw could call for pistols in the same easy tone they ordered ale, but it would take a practiced villainy.

Had I committed an act of premeditated villainy I could not have received more lecturing.

They complained, each for himself, of the royal villainy and violence.

why dost thou grant Such liberty, such lewd occasion To execute their shameless villainy?

"Can it be possible!" said a tall and aged director, rising from his chair and bending upon the culprit a look of great impressiveness"can it be possible that it is our upright and stainless clerk who confesses to such a stupendous villainy as this?

So, on the information of Donnel M'Gowan, and a man called Roddy Duncan, who was deep in the Prophet's subtle villainies, the skeleton was dug up, and old Condy Dalton arrested.

Systematic villainy in the handling of the human cargo was perhaps not so characteristic in this trade as in the transport of poverty-stricken white emigrants.

By this unexampled villainy, he makes it your duty to free the world from such a pest, and your interest to admit no relaxing in your pursuit of him, lest the world should be persuaded by your clemency to credit his vile insinuations.

He doesn't look like it, or talk like it, or act like it.' 'How many cases do we know in which some abominable unexpected villainy has destroyed the happiness and respectability of a family?'

Hen. VI.), a work written before 1700, and not published till thirty-four years afterwards: "So weak and fallible is that admired maxim, 'Factum valet, quot fieri non debuit,' an excuse first invented to palliate the unfledged villainy of some men, who are ashamed to be knaves, yet have not the courage to be honest.

If fidelity and honour be banished from thieves, where shall they find refuge upon the face of the earth?"[F] Larkins in particular thanked the captain for his interference, and swore that he would rather part with his right hand than injure so worthy a lad or assist such an unheard-of villainy.

Jack Dawkins is a young scamp of unmitigated villainy, and full of artifices, but of a cheery, buoyant temper.

He had behind him a career of unprecedented villainy, and that he should end here at Rusty as the solid and well-considered keeper of the roadhouse was, no doubt, a perpetual tickle to his consciousness.