Am I not buying?" A Jew, once purchasing oil from a poor Arab, carried his villainy so far as actually to make his tare and tret weigh more than the skin-bag when full of oil, and coolly told the amazed Arab he had no money to give him for the value received.

When, the sacrifice made, he learned that the contractors slandered him to cover their own villainy, and that Napoleon either believed them or was indifferent, his heart broke.

The ample confession of Karl disclosed the villainy of the Italians, and made known how narrowly the commissary had escaped the loss of his fair young bride; whilst, as he told his rude and simple tale, without claiming any merit, or appearing to be conscious of any, Adelaide learned that to this repulsive stupid clown she had three times owed her life.

When I thought of how many gallant officers may have been lured to their death by this monster of hypocrisy, it gave me a glow of pleasure to think that I had brought his villainies to an endthough I feared it would be at the price of a life which neither the Emperor nor the army could well spare.

[Footnote 4: He is too much afraid of exposing his villainy to be prompt enough to prevent her.]

The parents expose and denounce each other's villainies; Julie and Antonin, in a great scene of conjugal recrimination, lay bare the hypocrisies of allurement that have brought them together.

Icilius and Numitorius took up the lifeless body and showed it to the people; they deplored the villainy of Appius, the fatal beauty of the maiden, and the cruel lot of the father.

Have historians been given to exaggerating the villainy of Machiavelli?

why dost thou grant Such liberty, such lewd occasion To execute their shameless villainy?

"No sophistry in the world," writes Mr. Nisbet Bain, "can extenuate the villainy of the Second Partition.

They look as if they're hatching some new villainy.

Hen. VI.), a work written before 1700, and not published till thirty-four years afterwards: "So weak and fallible is that admired maxim, 'Factum valet, quot fieri non debuit,' an excuse first invented to palliate the unfledged villainy of some men, who are ashamed to be knaves, yet have not the courage to be honest.

"Of course, my dear cousin," he responded; "provided you propose any legal villainy.

It is a hard task to play the part of two heartless and treacherous daughters, and a pitiful fate to have to represent the villainy of Edmund, yet all this was admirably done.

An interview with Tressilian and the recovery of a letter written by Amy at Cumnor revealed all Varney's villainy.

From that time until our departure I spent a considerable portion of my time in studying human villainy with the Van Bremers as a model.

But, possibly from the fact that in those days human slavery in our country summed up all villainies and crimes, and in the war against that he threw all his surplus energy, he never took part in the crusade then beginning against the more familiar iniquities nearer home.

Valour is a 'virtue in the spirit which keeps the flesh in subjection, resolves without fear, and travails without fainting: she vows no villainy nor breaks her fidelity: she is patient in captivity and pitiful in conquest.

If fidelity and honour be banished from thieves, where shall they find refuge upon the face of the earth?"[F] Larkins in particular thanked the captain for his interference, and swore that he would rather part with his right hand than injure so worthy a lad or assist such an unheard-of villainy.

And well I wote no villainy is it; Eke Plato saith, who so can him rede, the words mote been cousin to the dede.

He dared not call Hope as his witness, for it was clear Hope must have seen him commit the theft and attempt the other villainy.

It was pathetic to hear him bewail the villainy of the man he had trusted, and when I produced the money he blessed me fervently, and at once proposed writing to the directors a full account of the matter.

All things went ill with the uncle, who perished in gaol, and the ruffian, after a lapse of seven years, confessed the whole villainy.

One day she awoke to find that her husband had crowned his villainy by decamping with her valuables and all her savings.