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  • Vilest of men, and most detestable of plotters, are hard words! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Vilest of men, and most detestable of plotters! how have I deserved from you the shocking indignities — but no more — only for your own sake, wish not, at least for a week to come, to see

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Vilest die and basest metal, now we always use instead.

    The Frogs 2000

  • Vilest die and basest metal, now we always use instead.

    The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • The _Jerusalem Sinner_ Saved Or, good News for the Vilest of Men; being a

    The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

  • He found the King nursing a Bent Whisker and in the very Vilest of

    Once on a Time Charles Robinson 1919

  • Vilest of creatures, do you pry into your mother's heart in such matters, do you watch her glances, count her sighs, sound her affections, intercept her letters, and accuse her of being in love?

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • Vilest of all, they actually quote the bewilderment produced among the poor by their first blunder as a reason for allowing them to blunder again.

    Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

  • Vilest amongst the vile, he had been cast forth from the haunts of beggars and reprobates, as no fitting company for honourable thieves or cadgers of good repute.

    Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

  • Vilest of God's creatures, she lives by the blood and lives and souls of men.

    Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

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