"Heard a scoundrel of a beach-comber sing it years ago.

Their unfailing hospitality was not in the least unexpected or unusual, being a virtue practised even by scoundrels in the great North-west; but it strained the resources of the little camp, a fourth of whose outfit lay under the Yukon ice.

He's not such a scoundrel as Pelaez but he's cleverer and slyer still.

We may still be baffled, foiled, thwarted at every turnand yet something tells me that the man is in our powerthat by this precious paper we may yet bring the scoundrel to his knees in prayers for our mercy, craven with fear at our knowledge.

"Charge 'em!" shouted the captain; "we'll pay the scoundrels for the miserable trick!"

Could a girl as fine an' square an' high-spirited as you ever double-cross a man, even a scoundrel like Nash?

For there are many scoundrels at large who commit crime with impunity, or who brush the edge of the criminal law in the most repulsive immorality without violating it.

"If you had a son whom it was not convenient to you to keep at home, would his being a bad fellowthe greatest scoundrel on the earthbe a reason for your turning him into the streets to live by thieving, and end by going to the dogs for ever and a day?" "No; but what do you mean?" "That I do not think that God, when He sends a human being out of this world, is more cruel than you or I would be.

It was entirely due to the tenacity of the father that the object of the killing was frustrated and the identification of the scoundrels with the Bolshevik commanders operating in this neighbourhood completed.

And I will ask Alston what he means by even seeming to give countenance to those scoundrels by going nigh them.

The president of Yale wrote to the doctor to ask "if he meant to take that scoundrel into his college."

There are scoundrels about the country who will commit the darkest crime for the smallest inducement.

You won't find me hard to live with if you only play the game,and put that damned scoundrel out of your mind for good.

A villain named William Lester, known as a scoundrel over the length and breadth of the cattle country, claimed that he had made the discovery first.

This is my meaning: if I can go before them with the offer of a school for El-Kerak, which the very worst scoundrel among them desires with all his ignorant heart; and if I can produce a distinguished gentleman from America, present among them on my invitation for the sole purpose of making the arrangements for such a school, that will convince them that I have their interests really at heart.

"You may be willing to believe these polished scoundrels under oath; but hang me if I would!" said the old gentleman, with emphasis.

It is easier to wean an ignorant fanatic from his error than a confirmed scoundrel from his scoundrelism.