Some of them are doubtless imposturesthe work of knaves, who speculate upon the credulity and superstitions which are attributes of the human mind; but they are not all such.

"Get back, you pitiful knaves," she cried.

I see but three sorry knaves!"

Modest and shy as a nun is she; One weak chirp is her only note; Braggart, and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat, Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink, Never was I afraid of man, Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can.

Comest thou not to me with a great array of men-at-arms and retainers, and yet art not able to take a single band of lusty knaves without armor on breast, in thine own county!

So look well to thyself, I say, or ill may befall thee as well as all the thieving knaves in Nottinghamshire.

"Now thanks, good master," quoth he, "and if I bring not news of those knaves to thee, call me no more thy sly Will Stutely.

A strict dissenter saying grace, A lecturer preaching for a place, Folks, things prophetic to dispense, Making the past the future tense, The popish dubbing of a priest, Fine epitaphs on knaves deceased.

Had I seen these brick-and-mortar knaves at their process of destruction, at the plucking of every pannel I should have felt the varlets at my heart.

And moreover, at this fair there are at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.

No, no, you did not watch against I came, To give her warning to despatch her knaves!

His countenance, so austere and thoughtful, impresses all beholders with a sort of inborn greatness; his lip, in Giotto's portrait, is curled disdainfully, as if he lived among fools or knaves.

He ridicules fools; he exposes knaves.

A GOLDEN ASS Is a young thing, whose father went to the devil; he is followed like a salt bitch, and limbed by him that gets up first; his disposition is cut, and knaves rend him like tenter-hooks; he is as blind as his mother, and swallows flatterers for friends.

He received the signal writh satisfaction; for, though he knew them to be knaves, he sufficiently understood the difference between audacious crime and mere roguery to believe they might, in this instance at least, prove true.

Sir Eustace is accused of sins he had never committed: "Harmless I was: yet hunted down For treasons to my soul unfit; I've been pursued through many a town For crimes that petty knaves commit.

Transport to Africa thine eldest born, And let gaunt hunger blanch thy peasants' lips? Make poorly paid officials banded knaves? Drive starving sons by thousands from thy shore, Or let them rot in Abyssinian graves, And hide the cancer festering at thy core?

"To the gate, knaves!" said the Saxon, hastily.

"They sold his father, and would sell himat least Argyll and the knaves with him would do so.

that sots and knaves should be so vain, To wish their vile resemblance may remain! And stand recorded, at their own request, To future days, a libel or a jest!

One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike.

"It seems rather lik Playing of Booty, to Please those Fools and Knaves."Ib., Pref., p. vi.

The ace of knaves; the Saint goes into action.

Under him the wild horsemen and "naked knaves," armed only with skeans and darts, sent terror into the breast of their armour-clad antagonists.

My-de'-sehI know that a citizen of the United States in the United States has a right to become, and to be called, under the laws governing the case, a Louisianian, a Vermonter, or a Virginian, as it may suit his whim; and even if he should be found dishonest or dangerous, he has a right to be treated just exactly as we treat the knaves and ruffians who are native born!