Knaves

` I don't know what possessed me, Joe, 'I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; ` but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards, Jacks; and I wish my boots weren't so thick nor my hands so coarse.'

Great Expectations 1860

"but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards Jacks; and I wish my boots weren't so thick nor my hands so coarse."

Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

“I don’t know what possessed me, Joe,” I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; “but I wish you hadn’t taught me to call Knaves at cards Jacks; and I wish my boots weren’t so thick nor my hands so coarse.”

Great Expectations 2007

"I don't know what possessed me, Joe," I replied, letting his shirt sleeve go, and sitting down in the ashes at his feet, hanging my head; "but I wish you hadn't taught me to call Knaves at cards,

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

When I saw that Gustav Vasa was the King of Diamonds, I had to buy them (if only to find out who they had for the Knaves).

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

So instead of being able to attack Governor Paterson's 5% cut to state education aid in the budget he released yesterday, state legislators in New York were being called "Knaves and Dwarves" who had said "The kids be damned" for failing to act on education reform legislation.

Harry Moroz: Is Competition Good For The Public Sector? 2010

This is part of the Knaves or Fools argument we have neglected, I think.

Those “self-executing rules” 2010

I had expected politicians rather than Famous Swedes for the Knaves, but Famous Swedes is good, too.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

You see, “jack” is a Liverpudlian term for “detective” well, certainly “policeman”; the Z-Cars pilot was entitled “Jacks and Knaves” and I suspect a constabulary pun.

Dinner with John Humphreys Alix Mortimer 2009

Knaves love sticking it to all those dumb squares, eh garage?

Jeffrey Rosen on the two important race cases that will be argued in the Supreme Court in the next few days. Ann Althouse 2009