And you know the knavish system of the scientific world. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
Spitting out curses on all knavish men to left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Responding under the same mask adopted by this knavish elder. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
He's a Scheming, knavish old sailor, who naturally wants to sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Dawkins ignorance is self - induced and comes from a knavish heart. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
For, with all his knavish tricks, his hand was in all manner of dyes. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran Winter] Reference
Thus every Knave thinks others, as knavish or more knavish than himself. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 6, 2 December 1760 - 3 March 1761] Reference
I was describing to F---- some knavish tricks of a mutual friend of ours. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Grave and Wise; but then a rigid knavish Guardian who wou'd have marry'd me. From Wordnik.com. [The Busie Body] Reference
Then I must beg your pardon once more for behaving in such a knavish fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Heart]
Not to be influenced by, or give ear to, knavish tattling servants, or others. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Sirens, the cunning, knavish, subtle praters, and was filled with silly thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Andromache] Reference
Papeete, when I contemplated going partners with a knavish fellow countryman on a guano venture. From Wordnik.com. [THE HEATHEN] Reference
Liputin grinned suddenly, his knavish little eyes seeming to peer into Stepan Trofimovitch's soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
The power elite always favor a knavish population ready to chant slogans that drown out all reason. From Wordnik.com. [Casting Off the Shackles of the Mind] Reference
Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable: it must show either a foolish head, or a knavish heart. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
No trick was too knavish or too despicable to prevent our guardian learning the truth concerning our plight. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
For at the death of Marcius he behaved in a knavish way to the latter's two sons and made the kingdom his own. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
As knavish as they might be, they were the only people in his city who actually had experience hunting vampires. From Wordnik.com. [You Suck]
But all was in vain; and so at last the knavish maker of the bell came up, seized the rope, and pulled at the bell. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principlea mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game . From Wordnik.com. [Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)] Reference
Finally, we love De Quincey for his abhorrence of all knavish or quackish men, and his deep respect for human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
'It was my persuasive manner of showing how much better an honest course is than a knavish one,' said Hiram, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He was justly indignant at the knavish publisher, whose conduct surpassed that of the Dublin pirates, or Edmund Curll. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
The knavish practices to which the pigment has been subjected, have acquired it an ill-fame both with authors and artists. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The fond yong woman, more covetously addicted to gayne and commodity, then looking into the knavish intention of her Gossip. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
To these you may add the knavish impostures of jugglers, exorcists, mass-priests, and mountebanks, of whom Roger Bacon speaks, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
There are some knavish practices of this kind, at which a traveller will do well to shut his eyes, for his own ease and convenience. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
He was emphatically a knavish practitioner of medicine, a master of the art of puffery, and was phenomenally successful in achieving notoriety. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
For, with all his knavish tricks his hand was in all manner of dyes; but he was never true to any one; wherefore poverty had gotten the better of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Parliamentary hermits were distasteful to him, and dwellers in political caves were regarded by him with aversion as being either knavish or impractical. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
My father, it is true, never left me a moment to myself, and only when I was twenty years old gave me so much as ten francs of my own, ten knavish prodigals of francs, such. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
Some knavish booksellers paid him the less acceptable compliment of putting forth spurious accounts of his adventures, one at least of which has been republished in this country. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
She answered, It must needs be so, O accursed, for thou art a knavish devil; but I will not go with thee nor shalt thou come with me, save upon condition of a wager which is this. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
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