Do we say knave or nave

knave 688 occurrences

So here, then, was a knave who held, somehow, the keys to a courtlier and nobler world.

iest sentiments should not have been at the mercy of a knave.

"Ha! Is it thus, thou traitor knave!" cried the Friar.

Quoth he, "I tell thee, friend, that I have nigh as much by me as thou hast, but it is hidden so that never a knave in Sherwood could find it.

" Now, although Little John had been somewhat abashed in the Queen's bower, he felt himself the sturdy fellow he was when the soles of his feet pressed green grass again; so he said boldly, "Now, blessings on thy sweet face, say I. An there lived a man that would not do his best for theeI will say nought, only I would like to have the cracking of his knave's pate!

" "An eminent writer may be a very great knave, in the first place, and one fact is worth a thousand conjectures in such a matter.

"Why not add at once, that he is as great a knave as the writer himself?

"It is literary swindling," said John Effingham, "and the man who did it, is inherently a knave.

Are you acquainted with the man who pulled it?" "Not particularly well: I only know him for a knave.

When he came back he said: "Hildreth, you have taken me at my word thus far, and you haven't had occasion to call me either a knave or a fool.

Let a fool hate France: if the fool loves it he will soon be a knave.

they've found their master a sorry knave indeed.

And who asked thee, thou naughty knave, to whom belonged these flocks, Sibyrtas, or (it might be) me?

Approach it not, if you're a base And base-born knave.

A Knave but speaks the perjur'd word, And laughs at injur'd Innocence.

I hear, by the way, Harry, that that Puritan knave, Rippinghall, the wool-stapler, is talking treason among his hands, and says that he will add a brave contingent to the bands of the Commons when they march hither.

K before n is silent; as in knave, know, knuckle.

Go, let the poor knave sell his ballads!"

If it were not for the prospect of immortality, he considers it would be wise and agreeable to be indecent or to murder one's father; and, heaven apart, it would be extremely irrational in any man not to be a knave.

Branwell is the Philosopher, John Brown is the Old Knave of Trumps.

The irony of his situation pleased him, and he wrote to the Old Knave of Trumps thus: "I took a half-year's farewell of old friend whisky at Kendal on the night after I left.

And did you die a maid or wife, Your husband lord or knave?

Oh, did you see him, did you see the knave, The spindle-shanked, low-browed, and cock-eyed Clerk to an attorney, play at Hamlet, Dream-souled Hamlet, wearing an eyeglass?

His nature lacked, however, the sweet sympathetic qualities that characterised Lincoln; and while to a large body of his fellow-citizens he commended himself for sturdiness, courage, and devotion to the interests of the state, he was never able for himself to overcome the feeling that a man who failed to agree with a Jackson policy must be either a knave or a fool.

But it was only the rabble of men and women who had been threatened, the dwellers in those twelve houses next the inn, who came dragging our brick-faced knave of a host, with that hard-polished countenance of his slack and clammyslate-gray in color too, all the red tan clean gone out of it.

nave 807 occurrences

The nave is 225 feet long, 39 feet wide and 102 feet in height to the vaulting; the windows are 36 feet high.

The vaults are under the western nave.

The height of the nave is 150 feet!

The nave is 152 feet high; the cupola is 138 feet in diameter or about the same as that of St. Peter's in Rome, for which it also served Michael Angelo as a model.

The Cathedral (1063-1118) is 311 feet long, 106 feet wide, and the nave 109 feet high.

The great bronze lamp which gave Galileo the hint of the pendulum, still hangs in its nave.

The nave is 87 feet wide and 150 feet high, and the dome is 138 feet in diameter (5 feet less than that of the Pantheon) and some 450 feet high.

His tomb, surmounted by a marble bust, is situated in the nave near the cloister, located among those of Barrow, Chaucer, Spenser, Cowley and other renowned Englishmen.

He died in exile in England, and his tomb may be found in Westminster Abbey, in a conspicuous part of the nave, where his remains were deposited by Englishmen, who regarded him as illustrious for his virtues, learning and philosophy.

The tower, bearing the inscription 'William Crow, Chvrchwarden Bvlded Stepel1664,' is an addition to what is probably only part of the nave of the little Norman building.

The simple Norman arcade on the north side of the nave has plain round columns and semicircular arches, but the south side belongs to later Norman times, and has ornate columns and capitals.

The church that exists to-day is of Transitional Norman date, and the beautiful little crypt, which has an apse, nave and aisles, is coeval with the superstructure.

The magnificent Early English choir and the Norman transepts stand astonishingly complete in their splendid decay, and the lower portions of the nave, which, until 1922, lay buried beneath masses of grass-grown débris, are now exposed to view.

The painted windows of the great nave have received no serious injury.

On large tables, in the middle of the nave, were displayed the most valuable specimens of the church plate, gold and silver vases, immense dishes, plates, and goblets, artistically engraved, and ornamented with embossed or open work; while magnificent vessels of crystal, containing the most beautiful flowers, and massive candelabra, with innumerable lights, sparkled in the midst.

The admirer of English Gothic will observe one peculiarity, which is, that in the cathedral of Milan there is no screen, and that the chancel is entirely open, and separated from the nave only by its elevation.

It was generally thought that he was buried in the nave of St. Paul's Cathedral; but the monument supposed to be erected to the duke was in reality that of John Beauchamp.

" She pointed to where, just under the cambered oak roof, there ran a dado, on which, carved in white bas-relief, lions, hares, stags, dogs, cats, crocodiles, and birds, formed a singular procession, which was continued round the nave and choir.

the nave also, excepting its roof.

Flambard also saw the two western towers finished as high as the roof of the nave.

Only the shell of the chancel remains, but the nave has been restored, and is now used as the church of the parish.

Above, again, rose the third storey, two great arches that lighted the large rose of the central nave.

Echo repeated the banging of the doors from nave to nave; a large broom, making a saw-like noise, began to sweep in front of the sacristy; the church vibrated under the blows of certain acolytes engaged in removing the dust from the famous carved stalls in the choir; it seemed as though the Cathedral had awoke with its nerves irritated, and that the slightest touch produced complaints.

Echo repeated the banging of the doors from nave to nave; a large broom, making a saw-like noise, began to sweep in front of the sacristy; the church vibrated under the blows of certain acolytes engaged in removing the dust from the famous carved stalls in the choir; it seemed as though the Cathedral had awoke with its nerves irritated, and that the slightest touch produced complaints.

Now and then he carried him in his arms to the store-room of the giants, an immense room between the buttresses and the arches of the nave, vaulted with stone.

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