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knave

[neyv] / neɪv /


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The 59-year-old star recently read A Kestrel for a Knave, the book that inspired the 1969 film, for BBC Four.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

His second novel - A Kestrel for a Knave - about a young working-class boy named Billy who finds and trains a kestrel, was published in 1968 and filmed the following year.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2016

More problematic is a rule that the hotel regularly imposes at the Knave, a cafe and bar in the northern passageway of the lobby.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2015

Barry Hines had of course famously adapted his own novels A Kestrel for a Knave and Looks and Smiles for Ken Loach – mighty achievements.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2014

Knave did not belong to the Master, but to a man who, going to Europe for a month, asked him to care for the dog in his absence.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson




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