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Next unravels the case of a Shakespearean forgery while pursuing a villain,
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And then my grasping, but trembling hand — I hope I did not hurt the tenderest and loveliest of all her beauties — If I am a villain,
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Ay! by that detested wretch, that blood-stained villain,
Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002
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They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
The Comedy of Errors 2004
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[150] Carus and Massa, who were proverbially infamous as informers, are represented by Juvenal as dreading a still more dangerous villain,
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Whatever happens, save me from that hateful villain,
Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee
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Their jests, their lies -- and, when they termed me villain,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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QUOTATION: One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,
Quotations 1919
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I would not undertake to estimate within a million of dollars – all of which is now held and enjoyed by that usurping villain,
The Hidden Hand 1888
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But Wyatt deserved much more than to be hurled into muddy water, and the villain,
The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" 1890
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