His tendency for knavery earned him the distrust of his neighbors and friends. From LearnThat.org.
"knavery" and "deceiving his creditors" in the arrangements about his fine, it is not a little strange to find that at the end of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon] Reference
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
For thy proved knavery, coining votes i 'the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
'Tis perhaps not a theft, but some piece of knavery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The dupe of deeper knavery smirks in shallow mimicry. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference
Hazlitt gives two examples of this species of knavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Till war has dealt its final blow, and Mr. Seward's knavery. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
One should forbear from knavery and from calumniating others. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
By trickery and knavery, Boris Godounof was elected czar by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
I'd rather have the prize-ring back than give a purse to knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference
And that implies false dealing, sharp practice, trickery, knavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
"Where Abel Doe is, there, thee may be sure, there is knavery!" said. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
Good-fellow, hating such knavery, put a trick upon him in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Conjurors retained their repute by much knavery and collusion with others. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
This was low knavery seeking protection behind the black mantle of treason. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He had my confidence; such confidence as confederates in knavery can bestow. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
Alexandre, Count de Cagliostro, was capable of any knavery, however infamous. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
And h'yar's the knavery of the thing; sir! the unpronounceable rascality, sir!. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
He was therefore obliged to have recourse to sheer knavery to compass his object. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He must surely know by this time that indulgences were sheer knavery and trickery. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
These were two brothers living upon the earth who practised every kind of knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
The folly of his own side is exhibited as relentlessly as the knavery of his opponents. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men, into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk!. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
But I perceived that they were engaged in wreaking their knavery upon the sign board of Nelly. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
He was an object of much suspicion, although he had never actually been caught at any knavery. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
In lying, thieving and knavery the Beria is not a whit inferior to his brother gipsy of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
It is true that they had had more schooling, more relations, more worldly experience, more knavery. From Wordnik.com. [SUGAR WORKERS CONGRESS] Reference
Such oppressive acts by narrow-minded good men were supplemented by the knavery of unscrupulous bad men. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
He distinguishes not betwixt fair and double dealing, and suspects all smoothness for the dress of knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
This is a story of a chap that I think must have had a birthmark of knavery somewhere concealed about his body. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
About other criminals you must be informed by the accuser, but about the knavery of these men you know everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Thus placed between two fires, and in danger of being exterminated, they resorted to their old cunning and knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
By implication we make the further statement that, if he be not cleared of folly, he will stand condemned of knavery. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
It was he who had excited his brother to all this knavery, in order that he himself might if possible gain possession of Smaragdine. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Algeria this race is generally thought to present a picture of arrogance, knavery and rank cowardice not equaled on the face of the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
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