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As for Donnel M'Gowan, cunning and unscrupulous, his plan was to secure Mave for young Dick o' the Grange, a small landowner, and a profligate. To do this he relied on the help of his daughter Sarah and was disappointed. For Sarah was to find Mave Sullivan her friend, and she renounced her father's scheme, so that no harm happened to the girl. III. The Shadow of Crime
Pogson was as unscrupulous as fanatics invariably are.
The comedian and deceiver was not the wily and unscrupulous intriguer, but the inexperienced daughter of the Empress-queen. She never believed in his truth. When he continued to thunder against the Right, the king and queen shook their heads, and repeated that he was incorrigible.
Even while we write, and for years back, a charge lies in the department of the Minister of Finance, against the present Premier of the Dominion, accusing that unscrupulous individual of conspiring with a whisky dealer, while he himself was First Minister of the Crown, to defraud the revenue a charge made by the present Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Excise, whom this same Premier has been obliged to retain in office to the present hour, with a view to saving himself from disclosures calculated to drive him from office in disgrace.
It is true Miss Esther and Malcomson were now silent, for their own sakes; but it did not remove their indignation; so far from that, Lanigan himself came in for a share of it, and was secretly looked upon in the light of the squire's confidant in the transaction. Whilst matters were in this position, the Red Rapparee began gradually to lose the confidence of his unscrupulous employer.
Yet privacy was difficult where all the curious passers-by stared in amaze at the great coach near the door, half filling the narrow and unclean street a vehicle bearing the arms of no less a person than that august and unscrupulous representative of the French nobility, the Prince de Conti.
Good-temper and brawn weren't enough." "Egypt's the place for mother-wit," broke in Dicky. "He had that anyhow. As to his unscrupulousness, of course that's as you may look at it." "Was he always unscrupulous?" she asked.
"... My dismay and disgust at the proceedings of a ministry, of which Mr. Gladstone must bear the full responsibility which indeed he accepts by defending all its atrocious proceedings have disinclined me to write, more than I must, on any but private or literary topics.... "A new struggle is made by this unscrupulous ministry to retain the execrable C.D. Acts.
His stratagems against Namur and Antwerp had produced him no fruit, saving the character, which his antagonist now fully succeeded in establishing for him, of an unscrupulous and artful schemer.
The mere rise of this unscrupulous swindler and his still more unscrupulous nephew, Justinian, would have been enough to rouse Dietrich's suspicion, if not fear. Deep and unspeakable must have been the royal Amal's contempt for the man.
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