knave
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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
Vocabulary lists containing knave
Romeo and Juliet
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