The spear with which Dunois had cleared his country of the British invaders; the sword with which the first Bourbon king had routed Egmont's cavalry at Ivry, were torn down from the walls to arm the vilest of mankind for rapine and slaughter.

Let a man study the world as much as he pleases; let him descend into the minutest details; dissect the vilest of animals; narrowly consider the least grain of corn sown in the ground, and the manner in which it germinates and multiplies; attentively observe with what precautions a rose-bud blows and opens in the sun, and closes again at night; and he will find in all these more design, conduct, and industry than in all the works of art.

Why people persist in drinking that vilest of all water which is found at the fashionable springs, Mr. P. cannot divine.

Brodie's mouth, when he spoke, dripped the vilest of vocabularies that had ever been known in these mountains, very much as old Honeycutt's toothless mouth, ever screwed up in rotary chewing and sucking movements, drooled tobacco juice upon his unclean shirt.

but I think this method of gain so exceeding vile that it admits of no excuse at all.

The good people we saw in Ges, a village of thatched cottages looking the worse for rain, said we should find the "road vile," but this did not daunt us, and with a "bon jour" we passed on.

It is that perpetual memento ever meeting one How in this vile world below Noblest things find vilest using, that is so very distressing to those who have hearts as well as eyes.

I had come under the shadow of the East Front, and far above me, I could hear the vile, hooning whistle of the Room, up in the darkness of the unlit wing.

And the old accountant was even aware that the young scamp, after stranding on the pavement of Paris, had led the vilest of lives there.

When we for recompense have praised the vile, It stains the glory in that happy verse Which aptly sings the good.

I saw there the vilest of men and the vilest of women, meeting with the worst intentions; but even for this they had the fiddle, music and dancing.

'Tis so to him, The dreamer of this earth, an idle blank; A sight of horror to the cruel wretch, Who all day long in sordid pleasure rolled, Himself an useless load, has squandered vile, Upon his scoundrel train, what might have cheered A drooping family of modest worth.

When Swift had been writing to Addison that he thought Steele 'the vilest of mankind,' in writing of this to Swift, Steele complained that the 'Examiner',in which Swift had a busy hand,said Addison had 'bridled him in point of politics,' adding, 'This was ill hinted both in relation to him and me.