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  • But thou, as well thou mayst, shalt die a caitiff's death, thy head crushed 'neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.

    Medea 2008

  • But thou, as well thou mayst, shalt die a caitiff's death, thy head crushed 'neath a shattered relic of Argo, when thou hast seen the bitter ending of my marriage.

    Medea 2008

  • Wherefore this is the third most derisive word that was spoken on the Cattle-lifting of Cualnge, even to take Conchobar [2] and his people [2] prisoners without wounding, and to inflict a caitiff's lot on the ten hundred and twenty hundred who accompanied the kings of Ulster.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • We passed for good knights one time:/what caitiff's death, if we

    The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

  • For a moment, misled by the glare of wealth and pleasure, we have played the caitiff's part; grasped freemen's privileges, without thanks, and with repudiation of the balancing duties and obligations without which no rights can survive.

    The Message 1912

  • To cringe before a caitiff's crown, it squareth not with Argive ways.

    The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1911

  • Failure was often the caitiff's portion, and disaster once; owing, ironically enough, to that very mist which should have served them.

    Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 1901

  • Schwartz, ye answer for this caitiff's safe keeping with your heads!

    The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

  • Failure was often the caitiff's portion, and disaster once; owing, ironically enough, to that very mist which should have served them.

    Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 1893

  • I looked round the wretched garret to which my mother had been reduced, and pictured the days and hours of fear and suspense through which she had lived; through which she must have lived, with that caitiff's threat hanging over her grey head!

    A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891

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