Sentence Examples
Baseball history bulges with hundreds of other bounders, knaves, and lunatics who were not anywhere near as talented. |
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Princess Maria and Prince Ron manage their Duchy well, but it is also the dumping ground for jesters, knaves and fools. |
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Too long has the free world laboured under the leadership of knaves, nymphos and knuckle-heads. |
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While you do have to draw your sword and fight quite a few blackguardly knaves in this game, it is still very much an adventure game. |
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The good yeomen and thespians who put on the River City Shakespeare Festival are in need of a few knaves, churls, gentlemen and gentlewomen to volunteer as well. |
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Professionals, knaves, doctors, proud knaves being the doctors, that is good, but we try to find something better involving the patient. |
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Those who tried to delude the people into believing that this was the last war were either fools or knaves, and he inclined to think that there were more knaves than fools. |
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If only others had been taught to care, Mr Stiglitz seems to say, this book would not have been necessary. And the problem with the knaves at the IMF and the Treasury is not just that they are heartless and incompetent. |
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Challenge knaves or knights right from here. |
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The money will exsiccate within 44 months just as donations dry up in the mystery of time and the pockets of Egyptian knaves. |
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The tricks o' knaves, or fash o' fools, Thou bear'st the gree! |
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And what thanks for this does Europe ever get? If these men who cares whether they are fools or knaves?—prevail, the implications will be even worse than you might suppose. |
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His images of sickness, vomit, manure, and plague reflected his strongly satiric view of a world populated by all the fools and knaves of England. |
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This design shows the Arms of the Company supported by men in armour, with four Knaves of Clubs set cornerwise. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
We have saved you from some roistering knaves, and shall give you a pleasant refuge until the trouble be quelled. |
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If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. |
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Assisted by a couple of knaves, Ganymede went about attending to the rebel at once. |
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A metaphor taken from the game at cards called gleek, where a gleek of knaves is three. |
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The kings and knaves wear the Byzantine humeral, and the Chrysoclavus pattern is carved on their chairs. |
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Let a couple of your knaves be in attendance, and do you come too, Martino. |
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He regarded towns as the abodes of vice, and citizens as rogues and knaves. |
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Was it likely, then, that she ever would have spoken to three thriftless knaves? |
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Yes, and if these mobbing knaves can be kept quiet then, we shall be in a situation to ask no favors. |
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Now the knaves are careful to caution their correspondents to send money by express, and to prepay the charges. |
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He had stopped at inns in strange company of fools and knaves, pedlars, roisterers and swashbucklers. |
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Why should you leave all the gains to the gluttons, knaves, and impostors? |
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And so I pushed on to Blois with my knaves close at my heels. |
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It is but three nines or three knaves, or a mixture of them. |
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Baden-Baden's splendid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. |
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The knaves led them from the stables, but fled without them. |
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My father says they be all mad together, the moonstruck knaves! |
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I shall take it with me, for it will be better used for charity and the good of my merry band than in the enriching of such knaves as these. |
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So look well to thyself, I say, or ill may befall thee as well as all the thieving knaves in Nottinghamshire. |
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From somewhere in the distance came the rhythmic snores of scurvy knaves getting their eight hours. |
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Safe-conduct passes for knaves are writs of capias to honest men. |
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I determined to ask Joe why he had ever taught me to call those picture-cards, Jacks, which ought to be called knaves. |
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So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms. |
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There are rogues and knaves here, friars and priests, barons and burgesses, bakers and butchers, tailors and tanners, masons and miners, and folk of many other crafts. |
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Send these loitering knaves up hither,'' said the Saxon, impatiently. |
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Liars and cheats, skilled in deeds irremediable, accomplished knaves. |
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Knaves will no more endeavour to persuade us of the baseness of mankind, than a highwayman will inform you that there are thieves on the road. |
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