Go to, knave, go to thy place and thou, Gurth, get thee another dog, and should the keeper dare to touch it, I will mar his archery; the curse of a coward on my head, if I strike not off the forefinger of his right hand
Send these loitering knaves up hither,'' said the Saxon, impatiently.
She said it to the
Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply.
The novelty of this singular scene excited such a murmur of mirth and gayety in the hall, that the cardinal was not slow to perceive it; he half bent forward, and, as from the point where he was placed he could catch only an imperfect view of Trouillerfou's ignominious doublet, he very naturally imagined that the mendicant was asking alms, and, disgusted with his audacity, he exclaimed: "Bailiff of the Courts, toss me that knave into the river
Monsieur Bailiff of the Courts," said he to a tall, black man, placed a few paces from him, "are those knaves in a holy-water vessel, that they make such a hellish noise?
But as for this same
knave Robin Hood, I go straightway to seek him, and if I do not score his
knave's pate, cut my staff into fagots and call me woman.
These clothes even that I wear are the cook's, and I am his knave.
She could not forget that she was a princess, and that she had been forced to wed a low-born kitchen knave.
In France, a
knave is dressed like a fop; and in the northern countries, like a sloven.
If it had not been a characteristic of Levin's to put the most favorable interpretation on people, Sviazhsky's character would have presented no doubt or difficulty to him: he would have said to himself, "a fool or a
knave," and everything would have seemed clear.
So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where the
knaves were working with all their might, at their empty looms.
There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women,
knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them
