Knaves
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"'Despardieux'," answered Front-de-Boeuf, "thou hast spoken the very truth--I forgot that the
knaves
can strip a fat abbot, as well as if they had been born south of yonder salt channel.
More example sentences with word knaves
They were fools more than
knaves.
Still louder shouted Don Quixote, calling them
knaves
and traitors, and the lord of the castle, who allowed knights-errant to be treated in this fashion, a villain and a low-born knight whom, had he received the order of knighthood, he would call to account for his treachery.
"To the gate, knaves!" said the Saxon, hastily, as soon as the tumult was so much appeased that the dependants could hear his voice.
"Here is a proper matter!" said Front-de-Boeuf, "this comes of lending you the use of my castle, that cannot manage your undertaking quietly, but you must bring this nest of hornets about my ears!""Of hornets?" said De Bracy; "of stingless drones rather; a band of lazy knaves, who take to the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour for their maintenance."
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