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You know, stuff along the lines of: "Lop off the dastardly knave's head, you fool!"
Archive 2008-09-01 Glenda Larke 2008
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You know, stuff along the lines of: "Lop off the dastardly knave's head, you fool!"
Careful of that sword, aka please don't sue me... Glenda Larke 2008
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He would go about the city looking into minor matters of his people's welfare, so he would measure the mercer's cloth-yard and if it were not up to standard would crack the saucy knave's head therewith.
From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
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"I would my horse had but the nimbleness and speed of the knave's legs," he said.
A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger
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"Because I could make ten thousand by it," was the knave's reply.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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Mr. Hadger, who by trading in things called negroes, and such like wares, has become a man of great means, twice every year badgers the community in behalf of this society, and chuckles over what he gets of Keepum, as if a knave's money was a sure panacea for the cure of souls saved through the medium of those highly respectable tracts the society publishes to suit the tastes of the god slavery.
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"It is a good knave's trade; we can put a great deal of copper into the gold without any one's finding it out."
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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"The sweetest flower in my garden," said the minister, "should perfume no stranger's vase, however, nor dangle at a knave's button-hole."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Prospero, pointing out Caliban, told his friends, "This mis-shapen knave's mother was a witch; and one so strong that she could control the moon, make flows and ebbs."
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So Sir Percival brought it down on the first knave's head, and, lo, though the blow was not a hard one, yet did the club break in two.
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