caitiff

• Ay A look of intense interest had driven out the usual weary listlessness in the black eyes Which had thus disguised him in order to essay the freeing of your Grace I am at peace with him, then, for his caitiff twist. —  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
• Why {then}, caitiff, dost thou ask for a gift that will {but} weaken thee? —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
• Now then, speak, caitiff, and tell us what's ado with Mistress Benden. —  All's Well Alice's Victory
• But if you really don't mind lending me a sovereign until to-morrow I said I should be most happy; and forthwith produced the coin, which Fitz-Johnes, having received it, flung disdainfully down upon the table with the exclamation There, caitiff, is the lucre. —  The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
• And having learned that her husband, though of good family, was but a caitiff, and avaricious in the last degree, he struck a bargain with him that he should lie one night with the lady for five hundred florins of gold: whereupon he had the same number of popolins(1) of silver, which were then current, gilded, and having lain with the lady, albeit against her will, gave them to her husband. —  The Decameron, Volume II

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