Thesaurus / knavery
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I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYSThey are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYI have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.
REST HARROWMAURICE HEWLETTThat a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.
AN ESSAY UPON PROJECTSDANIEL DEFOEThe young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.
THE SAINT'S TRAGEDYCHARLES KINGSLEYLouis expressed himself with such convincing candor, that Raoul, an artist in knavery, was charmed and astonished.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUTheres knavery in daubing, I hold my life; or else this only female pomatum.
THE MERMAID SERIES. EDITED BY H. ELLIS. THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. THOMAS DEKKER. EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ERNEST RHYS.THOMAS DEKKERBehind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight.
POEMS OF THE THIRD PERIODFRIEDRICH SCHILLERRobin Good-fellow, hating such knavery, put a trick upon him in this manner.
THE SOURCES AND ANALOGUES OF 'A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM'COMPILED BY FRANK SIDGWICKLet me die lowsie, if these two wenches Be not brewing knavery to stock a Kingdom.Petru.
BEAUMONT & FLETCHER'S WORKS (8 OF 10)FRANCIS BEAUMONTWORDS RELATED TO KNAVERY
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