1633 examples of villain in sentences

40 Thus, when the villain crams his chest, Gold is the canker of the breast; 'Tis avarice, insolence, and pride, And every shocking vice beside.

20 'Hang him, the villain's cursed,' he cries; And round his neck the halter ties.

Now even while this Ill-pause was making his speech, my lord Innocentwhether by a shot from the camp of the giant, or from some qualm that suddenly took him, or whether by the stinking breath of that treacherous villain, old Ill-pause, for so I am most apt to thinksunk down in the place where he stood still, nor could he be brought to life again.

They had too often already been the dupes of his hypocrisy, the victims of their own credulity; they scrupled not, both in public companies, and from the pulpit, to pronounce him "a dissembling perjured villain;" and they openly threatened him with "a worse fate than had befallen the last tyrant."

In the clouds, and on the earth, prevailed the same majestic peace; and in spite of all that the villain of a schoolmaster has done for the ruin of our sublimer thoughts, which are the thoughts of our infancy, we still believe in no such nonsense as a limited atmosphere.

"The young villain!"

"No," says Jack, savagely, "and our money is not all that we have lost, for some villain has filched our nag's harness, and I warrant you know who he is.

The silence was broken by Maskew: 'Unloose me, villain, and let me go.

She was a strong, well-grown girl, but she realized fully that she was no match for the villain who stood before her, twisting his moustache and adjusting his neck-tie.

Hook was not a man of high moral charactervery far from itbut we need not therefore suppose that he sat down coolly and deliberately, like a villain in a novel, to effect the girl's ruin.

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Across the flow'ring trellis, the villain cast his cloak, Upon the jeweled chalice, the moonbeams, sparkling, broke!

Now we had reduced the big villain's fighting bodyguard to two persons, Soma and the dancer, and if he had not impressed the carriers, we outnumbered him.

Instead of which, the critic proceeds, we are fobbed off with a storm-scene, a rescue, and other sensational incidents, and hear no word of what passes between the villain and his victim.

Words cannot express our unconcern as to what passes between the heroine and the villain on board the yachtnay, more, our gratitude for being spared that painful and threadbare scene of recrimination.

The plot demands, observe, that the villain shall not relent.

Weand by "we" I mean the public which relishes such playscannot possibly have any keen appetite for copious re-hashes of such very cold mutton as the appeals of the penitent heroine to the recalcitrant villain.

No delay of repentance, however dangerous, hinders the most hard-hearted villain from reaching his heaven.

It was all very like the conventional stage picture of Western melodrama: the fire lighting up their faces with patches of alternate red and black; Défago, in slouch hat and moccasins in the part of the "badlands" villain; Hank, open-faced and hatless, with that reckless fling of his shoulders, the honest and deceived hero; and old Punk, eavesdropping in the background, supplying the atmosphere of mystery.

She came to see us the morning after the scene in the café, when all the town was discussing the great news, and began at once, "So it seems the villain has run away from his island?" Both M. Goulden and I were anxious to avoid a dispute, for Aunt Grédel was really angry, and she couldn't leave the subject.

" "You impudent villain!"

"I think that villain's away at last," whispered Joe to his comrades.

"Just order the villain to climb into that tree.

Mrs. Fletcher returned safe to Scotland, where she was known as the heroine who had gone through so much for the love of a villain.

" Tasso, Novara, and the diva so beloved of cardinals mingled confusedly in Jean Servien's heated brain, and in a burst of sublime if fuddled enthusiasm he wrung the old villain's hand.

1633 examples of  villain  in sentences