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With a cricket ball in hand, his transformation from social knave to spellbinding performer is as magical as his bag of tricks.
Bezique is the queen of spades and knave of diamonds, for which the holder scores 40 points.
He claims that they accused him of being a fool and implied he was a knave who was guilty of dishonourable conduct.
Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well.
Old international law was particularly well suited to a government which was capable of acting in the role of a sensible knave.
I'm glad he's going since IMO, the man is a fool and a knave.
The face card formerly known as the knave owes its modern name of jack to this game.
Once you reached level 15 you will be knighted yourself and you can train a knave or be part of glorious tournaments.
Your are a knave in the dark middle ages, determined to learn the martial art to become a knight.
There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice.
The indictment against Adams, as I read it, is that he's a fat, pompous old windbag who assumes that anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a fool or a knave.
Instead, according to the same Daily Record, he is a knave and a liar.
In addition to the new children's area on the first floor, there is a balcony overlooking the knave that provides additional space for the congregation.
And any justice who does not want to be thought a fool or a knave will take care to craft persuasive opinions that show the reasonableness of his or her conclusions.
In his bucolic scheme, every official is a dolt, every priest a fool or knave, every milkmaid diseased and unchaste, every villager either a boozer or a chiseler.
The word knave remains mostly in use today as the name of the lowest court card in a pack.
As it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded.
Supposing it a very vertuuus tiling, To he an arrant knave in libelling.
He enjoys an Earl Grey in a small pub known as the Knave of Hearts in the heart of Oxfordshire.
During the Spring David Burliuk gave two lectures on cubism and planned a polemical publication, which the Knave of Diamonds was to finance.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages.
He is a knave, doubtless, but deserves well for unmasking this other knave.
Here is a knave of a friar calleth me a mad priest, and yet I smite him not.
But I always have a little distrust for the foolishness of a person who has once been a knave.
The persecution of which they complained was the persecution of the honest man by the knave.
Of those Yorkshire yeomen, one is too tall and the other too short for that bold knave.
The name bezique itself is applied to the combination of the knave of diamonds and queen of spades.
Dumnorix is a thick-skulled knave, who is, after all, good for little but blows.
I know I am free, for I am a knave, if I have not forgot what wench had my maidenhead.
Bespatter it, vituperate against it, strongly insist that any man or woman harbouring it is a fool or a knave, or both.
It was not necessary, you knave, to bring me hither to tell me so much.
They swanned close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric.
Not so hardy, thou bawdy knave, said the damosel, that thou slay him.
Whether knave, fool, or Bedlamite, it is intolerable that the fellow should go at large.
If the villain must disgrace the family, must he blazon it abroad to every low-bred knave of his acquaintance?
Then tis by the gentle craft, and to call one knave gently, is no harm.
Ho, there, seize me yon knave that beareth the cognizance of tong.
I took thee for an angler, and thou art but a poaching knave!
This arrant rogue was only a petty knave that any one could dupe.
It was the citizen of hearts replacing the ci-devant knave of hearts.
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