77 Verbs to Use for the Word knaves

But now, and I could find my fellow Dick, I would play the knave with him honestly, i'faith.

To keep you honest, and to keep you brave, For once an honest man will turn a knave.

Son, I doubt he will prove a crafty knave, and cosen us of our money.

And that is why I chose such a night to come hither, knowing these knaves like dry skins, but never thinking that the wind would blow like this.

The same ambition can destroy or save, And makes a patriot as it makes a knave.

1 CLARENDON had law and sense, Clifford was fierce and brave; Bennet's grave look was a pretence, And Danby's matchless impudence Help'd to support the knave.

She marries the knave in haste, and repents it at leisure for years thereafter.

I tell thee, knave, I have cracked the head of many a better man than thou art, and even now I would scald thy crown for thee but for the ale thou hast given me.

what mean these knaves, To lead me thus with bills and glaves?

" We played at beggar my neighbour, and before the game was out Estella said disdainfully, "He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!

"I saw no knave with Your Worship, for I swear no man would dare call that man knave so nigh to Sherwood Forest.

His good parts lie dead upon his hands, for want of matter to employ them, and at the best are not commended but pitied, as virtues ill placed, and we may say of him, "Tis an honest man, but tis pity;" and yet those that call him so will trust a knave before him.

"By the hilt of my sword," said stout King Richard, "this is as bold and merry a knave as ever I heard tell of.

The noble patricians should give them a lesson in modesty, by sending every tenth knave among them to the galleys.

But the King, that had a high stomach and could not hate any that he despised, bid, "Take him forth and set the knave in the stocks"; and so, promising the prior his life, he caused him to be brought forth.

30 Were they denied their proper tools, How could they lead their knaves and fools? Were this the case, let's take a view, What dreadful mischiefs would ensue; Though it might aggrandise the state, Could private luxury dine on plate?

"Ha!" roared the leader of the band in a great big voice of joy, "have we then caught thee at last, thou blue- clad knave?

Who, with herself, or others, from her birth Finds all her life one warfare upon earth; Shines, in exposing knaves, and painting fools, Yet is, whate'er she hates and ridicules.

for there is one JOHN PARTRIDGE can smell a knave as far as Grub street, although he lies in the most exalted garret, and writeth himself "Squire"!

[Footnote 7: "Harmonious Cibber entertains The court with annual birthday strains, Whence Gay was banished in disgrace, Where Pope will never show his face, Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

X "I CAN HELP YOU" A subtle knave; a finder out of occasions; That has an eye can stamp and counterfeit Advantages though true advantage never presents Itself; A devilish knave!

Once when I had a quarrel with one of my lady Veritas' naked knaves, and had 'ppointed him the field, I conveyed into the heart of my buckler an adamant, and when we met, I drew all the foins of his rapier, whithersoever he intended them, or howsoever I guided mine arm, pointed still to the midst of my buckler, so that by this means I hurt the knave mortally, and myself came away untouched, to the wonder of all the beholders.

"I will kill the knave, if the governor should hang me for it the next moment," he said in a fit of anger.

Come my brave man of war, trace out thy darling, And you my learned Council, sit and turn boyes, Kiss till the Cow come home, kiss close, kiss close knaves.

As for his works in verse and prose, I own myself no judge of those; Nor can I tell what critics thought 'em, But this I know, all people bought 'em, As with a moral view designed To cure the vices of mankind, His vein, ironically grave, Exposed the fool, and lashed the knave.

77 Verbs to Use for the Word  knaves