roguery

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Roguery in the Fox is what everybody looks for, and plucking and roasting are, of course, inseparable from a Goose and Gridiron.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

You keep open House to all the Party, not for Mirth, Generosity or good Nature, but for Roguery.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

When Roguery rules all the rest of the earth, God be thanked in this corner I've got a good birth.

From Poems by Southey, Robert

To the Docks, to meet Mr. Soker, and go over the Wine Vaults with a Tasting-Order, and taste the Wine there before it hath undergone any Roguery for the Market.

From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard

Ay, thou false Varlet, there's another debt I owe thee, for bringing me so damnable a Lye: my Brother's well—I met his Valet but a League from Town, and found thy Roguery out.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague