Do we say knaves or naves

knaves 320 occurrences

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!

naves 59 occurrences

The great preparations which Caesar had been making for at least a year were at last complete, the specially built ships, wide and of shallow draft, of an intermediate size between his own swift- sailing vessels and those of burthen which he had gathered locally, were all ready to the number of six hundred, with twenty-eight naves longae or war vessels, and some two hundred of the older boats.

One will meet few grander naves anywhere than this Gothic nave in Canterbury, formed of white stone and wonderfully symmetrical in all its outlines.

"And should time be short for detailed inspection, it is this general effect of immense naves, of a forest of columns and of jeweled windows that we carry away, feeling too small amidst such greatness of form and incomparable loveliness of lights for the mere expression of admiration."

y confunden con las tinieblas de las naves los rayos de colores de las ojivas; donde lucha y se

Las moribundas lámparas, que brillaban en el fondo de las naves como estrellas perdidas entre las sombras, oscilaron á su vista, y oscilaron las estatuas de los sepulcros y las imágenes del altar, y osciló el templo todo con sus arcadas de granito y sus machones de sillería.

Santos, monjas, ángeles, demonios, guerreros, damas, pajes, cenobitas y villanos, se rodeaban y confundían en las naves y en el altar.

Á la luz del farolillo, cuya dudosa claridad se perdía entre las espesas sombras de las naves y dibujaba con gigantescas proporciones sobre el muro la fantástica sombra del sargento aposentador que iba precediéndole, recorrió la iglesia de arriba abajo y escudriñó una por una todas sus desiertas capillas, hasta que una vez hecho cargo del local, mandó echar pie á tierra á su gente, y hombres

El nuevo organista, después de atravesar por en medio de los fieles que ocupaban las naves para ir á besar el anillo del prelado, había subido á la tribuna, donde tocaba unos tras otros los registros del órgano; con una gravedad tan afectada como ridícula.

El esquilón llamaba á voz herida á los fieles desde la torre, y alguna que otra rara persona atravesaba el atrio silencioso y desierto esta vez, y después de tomar el agua bendita en la puerta, escogiá un puesto en un rincón de las naves, donde unos cuantos vecinos del barrio esperaban tranquilamente que comenzara la Misa del Gallo.

In engines with outside cylinders the axles are made straight-the crank pins being inserted in the naves of the wheels.

Wheels are made with much variety in their constructive details: sometimes they are made with cast iron naves, with the spokes and rim of wrought iron; but in the best modern wheels the nave is formed of the ends of the spokes welded together at the centre.

When cast iron naves are adopted, the spokes are forged out of flat bars with T-formed heads, and are arranged radially in the founder's mould, the cast iron, when fluid, being poured among them.

Hawthorn makes his wheels with cast iron naves and wrought iron rims and arms; but instead of welding the arms together, he makes palms on their outer end, which are attached by rivets to the rim.

But a point which remains to be explained is that the walls of the crypt are parallel to the line of the new chancel and not to the line of the old or new naves.

Then it is held by some that the axis of the old nave and chancel was in line with that of the present choir; but the south porch, built more than one hundred years before the new nave, is at right angles with it which would hardly have been the case had the two naves not been on the same lines.

The wheels of class B design are the same in principle of construction as those of class A, but they have cast metal bosses or naves, without loose bushes, and are suitable for general work and ordinary roads where the strains are not so severe.

The bosses or naves are readily removed in case of breakage, and they can be fitted with steel oil caps for lubricating.

NAVES, MARIE VALETTE.

SEE NAVES, RAYMOND.

NAVES, RAYMOND. Voltaire: l'homme et l'oeuvre.

Mme Raymond Naves, nee Marie Valette (W); 30Jan70; R478876.

NAVES, MME RAYMOND.

SEE NAVES, MARIE VALETTE.

Out of this tree were cut 80 pairs of naves for carriage-wheels, and 8,000 feet of sawn timber in boards and planks, at six score per cent.which, for the sawing only, as the price of labour then was, came to the sum of 12l.

naves, et in qualibet nave xxi. homines, cum uno garcione qui dicitur gromet.

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