United States or Azerbaijan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And would ye seek out once more the knaves ye did stun, and try to lead them astray, even down into the Broads? And all to keep them from the king?" The two servants grinned. "And would ye make believe to be on the trail of Hugo and Humphrey here? And would ye lead them far from the trail? I see that ye would, knaves that ye are. I have discovered ye.
Guzzlebhoy Fustomji Paintwallah; green glass chandeliers and big blue and white tin balls; mauve carpet with purple azure roses; wall-paper, bright pink with red lilies and yellow cabbages; immense mouldy mirrors, and a tin alarm clock. Big crowd of all the fly-blown rich knaves of the place who have got more than they want out of Government or else haven't got enough.
Mary Everard wept with grief, joy, and gratitude, and took her jewel to her arms without complaint or question. The crotchety father was disposed to have it out with either the knaves or the fools in the game, did not Arthur reduce him to quiet by his little indictment.
A few broken words came from his lips that showed that his thoughts had gone back to old times. "Boot and saddle," he murmured. "That is right. Now we are ready for them. Down with the prick-eared knaves! God and King Charles!" These were the last words he spoke. Cyril had done all that was necessary. He had laid by more than half his earnings for the last eight or nine months.
Cheerly, but I have dined; and if I have not done justice to your good cheer, thank yourself and the highwaymen. Where do these highwaymen attack one?" "Why, my lord, the neighbourhood of Reading is, I believe, the worst part; but they are very troublesome all the way to Salthill." "Damnation! the very neighbourhood in which the knaves robbed me before! You may well call them troublesome!
If Christians, said Peter, lived in a town, and paid the usual rates and taxes, they were simply helping to support a system which existed for the protection of robbers. He regarded towns as the abodes of vice, and citizens as rogues and knaves. The first town, he said, was built by the murderer, Cain.
I am one of those people who do not believe in the natural decay of nations. I believe, to speak frankly, though perhaps not quite so politely as I could wish but I am getting near the end of my lecture that the whole theory is a speculation invented by cowards to excuse knaves.
He invited them to pledge themselves with him to denounce and resist such profane, such blasphemous innovations, proposed by shallow enthusiasts, seconded by designing knaves, and destined to be wrought out by the agency of demons demons in human form.
"And yet the fact follows from your own theory. If one man is as good as another, and any one of them is a fool, or a knave, or a traitor, all are knaves, or fools, or traitors! The insinuation is not mine, but it follows, I think, inevitably, as a consequence of your own proposition." In the pause that succeeded, Mr. Sharp said in a low voice to Eve, "He is an Englishman, after all!" "Mr.
The landlord of the 'Foul Anchor, at least, acted in his proper person, whoever might have been the aged seaman?" "Honest Joe Joram! An useful man to a distressed mariner, you must allow. How liked you the Newport pilot?" "Was he an agent too?" "For the job merely. I trust such knaves no further than their own eyes can see. But, hist! Heard you nothing?"
Word Of The Day