74 Verbs to Use for the Word scoundrels

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.

Rather than marry a scoundrel like you, I will shut myself up in a convent!" Carried away by my feelings, I seized her two hands, and said, "Now listen, Marguerite.

Sometimes he was tempted to fly; but then he reflected that he should in that way prove a scoundrel to two women instead of one.

The colonel never forgot that he was a gentleman, for he rose up, took off his hat to the colored women, and said: "You must excuse me, ladies, but I shall have to go and kill the scoundrel who sat me down with niggers," and he got down off the seats and struck the usher with his cane, and the usher yelled: "Hey, Rube!" and all the circus people made a rush for the colonel.

"You impudent scoundrel!" exclaimed Kurt.

I hope you do, for it's a cruel thing to suppose that my son has turned out a shameless scoundrel.

At last he found a scoundrel named Simon Watkins, who for the consideration of fifty dollars, was to collect as many of the slaves as he could at one place; and when he had done so, he was to receive the money, leaving Capt. Helm to do the rest.

" "Well, I hope they can catch the scoundrels," said Mr. Moyne.

"And I should know him again anywherethe scoundrel!"

I would shoot the scoundrel Boone.

"I feel the veriest scoundrel," he said, bitterly.

"Mr. Phipps," she said, "they tell me you've taken that scoundrel of a nephew of mineDredlintoninto your business, whatever it is.

To admit such a principle into the construction of oaths, if it enable one man to do much good, will enable scoundrels who creep into office to do much harm, "according to their consciences."

One of our scouts brought in word that Brant's immediate followers had a white prisoner with them, and it is reasonable to suppose him to be Peter Sitz, for, since we saw those scoundrels, they have kept out of mischief because of being in camp with the British and Tory soldiers.

At the same moment a white man ran from the house and called in English: "You damned little scoundrel!

If he had ever heard of any other man in a like condition, he would have called that man a scoundrel, and yet he did not deem himself a scoundrel.

" "He didthe scoundrel!" said Marston, furiously striking his hand, in which his whip was clutched, upon his thigh; "he did mean to wound and torture me; and with the same object he persists in circulating what he calls his doubts.

He had a table with candles burning at his bedside, and was getting on his clothes again; and he swore and cursed at them roundly in his old style, telling them that he had business, and that he would discharge on the spot any scoundrel who should dare to disturb him again.

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.

Madame, who was afraid of him, had said to her son on the day of his elevation to power, "I desire only the welfare of the state and your own glory; I have but one request to make for your honor's sake, and I demand your word for it, that is, never to employ that scoundrel of an Abbe Dubois, the greatest rascal in the world, and one who would sacrifice the state and you to the slightest interest."

" Early next morning, Yansen went to the Exchange, and kept an anxious watch for many hours in vain; he was returning hopeless, when he saw the identical youth coming out of the door of a Jew money-changer; he brushed hastily past him, exclaiming, "The unconscionable scoundrel!

Being resolved to expose Pecksniff, he goes to live in his house, and pretends to be weak in intellect, but keeps his eyes sharp open, and is able to expose the canting scoundrel in all his deformity.

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.

"Give me him an' Jacob Sitz, sir, an' I'll guarantee to follow Thayendanega an' his precious scoundrels till we know what deviltry they've got in mind.

She gave herself instead tothe scoundrel whose name I bearjust to set him free.

74 Verbs to Use for the Word  scoundrels