"And they're with Thrackles, and Pulz and Solomon, and many another black- hearted scoundrel and brave seaman.

He wishes to paint an amiable man, and he succeeds in drawing a scoundrel: he says he will give us the likeness of a genius, and it is only the picture of a humbug.

In Europe he is a scoundrel and a spy until he proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is a neighbor.

He was one of the most straightforth fellows I have ever met, and yet I regarded him there as I would a low-browed scoundrel.

BESO'NIAN (A), a scoundrel.

Such a congregation as Texas presents was never, I suspect, known, save in that city into which the Macedonian monarch gathered and garnered, in one scoundrel community, the vagabond rascality of his kingdom.

Is there anyone who does not know the scoundrel?

Had I not been obliged to consider those present, I should certainly have spit in his face, so great was my aversion to this scoundrel.

Oh, if it had been in my power I would have seized the scoundrel by the collar and thrown him out of the gate.

"Mairam brought the ring, and as soon as the scoundrel saw it he grabbed it from her hand and put it on his finger.

No, dear sir, cast not your eyes upon our property; be content with what you have.' "'Mrs. Mairam,' said the scoundrel, smirking, 'why are you so angry?

Conscience hunts the scoundrel to the deuce: he lets his skin grow thick; feigns outwardly to be dull; if anyone spits in his face he regards it only as a May-shower; if anyone goes for him for his rascality, he takes it as a joke.

"If you knew all that we said to this scoundrel's face!

"'Take them,' said Sarkis, 'but take care that they do not go astray, for' "'But what are you thinking about?' answered the scoundrel.

the scoundrel began after a pause.

The devil take the scoundrel!

A king's word can make of the meanest scoundrel a duke, a marquis, but an honest man holds his rank by a power greater than any king's."

The men are as ignorant as the women, except that scoundrel of a bishop, who, like myself, is bored by the incessant talk of politics and has just assured me that no one has an idea of the charm of life who has not lived before this year of 1789.

" As Calvert looked at the handsome, dissipated face of the nobleman before him a sudden gust of passion shook him that so insolent a scoundrel should dare to speak to him in such fashion.

The finished scoundrel.

"You scoundrel!

Seeing that Slippery meant business, this scoundrel now took recourse in diplomacy.

"Jim, Jim," he could distinctly hear the scoundrel say mocking him in his helplessness, "come on, Jim, let us go and peddle needle cases and loot more houses."

To some of the fellows whom he recognized as having been members of the "mob" which prevented his choking Kansas Shorty into a confession, he told the story of his missing brother and repeated the strange conversation that had passed between them before he felled the scoundrel to the pavement.

If luck favored him in his search, he planned to plead with the scoundrel, but should this prove of no avail, then he intended to strangle him until he would divulge the secret which shrouded Jim's fate.