"Slegge is what you call a blackguard," cried Singh angrily. From Wordnik.com. [Glyn Severn's Schooldays] Reference
He had been called a blackguard, and the word had stung like the cut of a horse-whip. From Wordnik.com. [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference
But what's the virtue of reporting, if it stops short of calling a blackguard a blackguard?. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: All the News That's Fit to Neuter] Reference
I am the great-great grandaughter of that "blackguard" William Wallace McKaig. From Wordnik.com. [The Famous Black-McKaig Trial] Reference
Decapolis, by Augustus, was a "blackguard" transaction, which deprived. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
He merely asked the name of the "blackguard" whom Miss Anty meant to marry?. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
I do not know what kind of blackguard you are, but blackguard I know you to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of the Mask] Reference
Carnaby came a little late for his appointment, and pleaded business with a 'blackguard' in the City. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
"Hold your tongue, you blackguard!" burst out Reuben. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
They are grandchildren of that blackguard old Duke of. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
I heard that Irish blackguard Macan's voice somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
The luckless father was captured by my blackguard friend. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Unj. And if he be a blackguard, what harm will he suffer?. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
It is a painful thing to say, but he was an utter blackguard. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
And it's making love to another man's wife he'd be, blackguard!. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
"You low blackguard, what do you mean by stealing your aunt's silver?". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
What argument will he be able to state, to prove that he is not a blackguard?. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
The mere thought of that blackguard spying on Sophia twisted his heart with anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
"You may 'buse my old man -- he kin stand it -- but ye shan't blackguard my young' uns!". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
This Government consisted of Albertini, a scoundrel and a blackguard, Reta, and Avezzana. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Davy had made him feel himself a blackguard, but he could not see just where he had erred. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
"If a man likes to be an unscrupulous blackguard he can make use of all events," David said. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
A muscular blackguard clears a high fence: he does precisely that, -- neither more nor less. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
He's three-quarters blackguard and one-quarter of a good fellow; but we'll make a man of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
'Well,' said Arthur, with a visible effort, 'the blackguard disappears from my scheme of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Now, therefore, come with me, my dearest son, that you may destroy the blackguard Chaerephon and. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
"Very well, sir," said Combe dryly, "I only wish every other blackguard in London would do the same.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
There was a rumour of that got about, how you was going to shunt us on to them, you skulking blackguard. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
"She's mounting guard," he said, "with the shuvver to help, over our catch -- the worst blackguard unhung.". From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
"Whoi the blackguard tills me he's voted for Patrick Francis Moran -- who ever heard of Patrick Francis Moran?". From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
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