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He connived at the famous forgery of the prelate of Arras, to which the Landgrave Philip owed his long imprisonment; a villany worse than many for which humbler rogues have suffered by thousands upon the gallows. The contemporary world knew well the history of his frauds, on scale both colossal and minute, and called him familiarly "Charles qui triche."
I should have no doubt about it if the voluntary principle were in vogue." "A voluntary fiddlestick!" "Well, even a voluntary fiddlestick if it be voluntary and well used." "Of course you'll be a barrister. It is what you are cut out for, and what you always intended." "It is the most alluring trade going, I own; but then they are all such rogues. Of course you will be an exception."
'Forasmuch as nothing is more complained of than the multitude of rogues and wandering beggars that swarm in every place about the city, being a great cause of the spreading of the infection, and will not be avoided, notwithstanding any orders that have been given to the contrary: It is therefore now ordered, that such constables, and others whom this matter may any way concern, take special care that no wandering beggars be suffered in the streets of this city in any fashion or manner whatsoever, upon the penalty provided by the law, to be duly and severely executed upon them.
He insisted on his turning into a hut which old Folkard and Pierre immediately set to work to construct. Our guests begged that he might be conveyed to their wigwams, saying that their squaws would doctor him and soon restore his strength. "They may be honest those Shianees but they may be rogues like many other Redskins," observed old Ben. "Better not trust them."
The law compels us to use only polite weapons against those to whom all weapons are serviceable. The courts tie our hands. The rogues are clever, but be sure that our cleverness is much greater than theirs." "But," interrupted M. Plantat, "Tremorel is now outside the law; we have the warrant." "What matters it?
I only heard her call it so and she said her 'poor darling' was born with the same fault, and that was her defence against being imposed upon by rogues I remember the very words 'in the past days when I employed people to find her. Yes! she said 'her. I heard it plainly. And she talked afterwards of her 'poor lost daughter', who might be still living somewhere, and wondering who her mother was.
"There's a boy with a heart," he said, pointing to me; "he is not like you other rogues; you laugh when you see your comrades suffer. Take this little comrade for an example." I trembled from head to foot. Their comrade! At the second blow the victim uttered a wail, at the third a piercing shriek. Garofoli lifted his hand; Ricardo stopped with raised whip.
Hulin replied to a person who had discovered a large store of wood, "Leave the wood untouched; your king will want a good deal to make gallows for traitorous rogues." Napoleon's reception struck him with such astonishment that he declared, "I know not whether to rejoice or to feel ashamed."
Faith, very suddenly, for I think it will not be Hard to find men of your trade, Men that will fight as long as you can do, And Men that love it much better than I, Men that are poor and damn'd, fine desperate Rogues, Rascals that for a Pattacoon a Man Will fight their Fathers, And kiss their Mothers into peace again: Such, Sir, I think will fit you. Cle.
"I thought it was only my lord's horses going to the water." "It was the Copelands going off without breaking their fast or taking a stirrup cup, like discourteous rogues as they be," said Margaret, in no measured language. "And are they gone? And wherefore?" asked Grisell. "Wherefore? but for fear my noble uncle of Salisbury should hold them to their contract.
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