| Politics is a noble and sometimes a knavish trade. |
| Neither were they filled with goods, like those of knavish traders. |
| They were like monkeys for their knavish and thievish tricks. |
| Zanni were valet buffoons, clowns, and knavish jacks-of-all-trades. |
| Some occurrence of the hour may have suggested the knavish adept with his divining-rod. |
| Oh, how one longs for the days of yore, when men were honourable and there was none of this knavish nonsense to hand. |
