Dastards

Yet the Dastards dare not avow their Hatred to it, it seems.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1777 1963

Dastards to the last degree, the young "braves" who mutilated the slain lancers will return to their tribe to tell of scalps fairly taken in fight!

The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

For this world and for the next Dastards are a class of creatures made to be

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Knaves and Dastards accordingly were got arrested.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Dastards, Knaves, are they that lust for Pleasure, that tremble at Pain.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

For this world and for the next, Dastards are a class of creatures made to be 'arrested;' they are good for nothing else, can look for nothing else.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

You Saxons, some 'arrestment,' partial 'arrestment of the Knaves and Dastards' has become indispensable!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Dastards 'had to be' arrested 'in some measure; or the world, almost within year and day, found that it could not live.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

If England cannot get her Knaves and Dastards 'arrested,' in some degree, but only get them 'elected,' what is to become of England?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Dastards upon the very throne had to be got arrested, and taken off the throne, -- by such methods as there were; by the roughest method, if there chanced to be no smoother one!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838