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  • "Scoundrel," sounds in the garden, loud and threateningly, as if to

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • 'Scoundrel 's a name I've got a retort for, and if it hadn't been you, and you a gentleman, you'd have had it spanking hot from the end o' my fist.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • He called the duc de Richelieu, the tyrant of the tennis-court* (_tripot_), and the duke returned the compliment by invariably designating him "Scoundrel" and "Poetaster"; the only difference was that the duc de Richelieu only treated the poet thus in

    Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself Etienne-L��on Lamothe-Langon 1825

  • Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive.

    on free speech 2010

  • His new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, is a retelling of the story of Jesus.

    Fiction 2009

  • His Broadway debut was in Diary of a Scoundrel in 1956.

    Peter Falk, Columbo actor, dies aged 83 2011

  • This is the audacious move that Philip Pullman makes in his rewrite of the gospel story, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, and he pulls it off brilliantly.

    He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • Falk made his Broadway debut in 1956 in Diary of a Scoundrel and appeared in the Tony-winning The Prisoner of Second Avenue in 1971.

    Columbo Star Peter Falk Dies at 83 2011

  • His new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, is a retelling of the story of Jesus.

    Scripture 2009

  • His new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, is a retelling of the story of Jesus.

    Anti-Catholicism 2009

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