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Sentence Examples
| With a cricket ball in hand, his transformation from social knave to spellbinding performer is as magical as his bag of tricks. |
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| Bezique is the queen of spades and knave of diamonds, for which the holder scores 40 points. |
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| He claims that they accused him of being a fool and implied he was a knave who was guilty of dishonourable conduct. |
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| Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well. |
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| Old international law was particularly well suited to a government which was capable of acting in the role of a sensible knave. |
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| I'm glad he's going since IMO, the man is a fool and a knave. |
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| The face card formerly known as the knave owes its modern name of jack to this game. |
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| Once you reached level 15 you will be knighted yourself and you can train a knave or be part of glorious tournaments. |
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| Your are a knave in the dark middle ages, determined to learn the martial art to become a knight. |
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| There's a difference between thinking someone's strategies are wrong, and thinking them a knave who acts from ignorance at best, and more likely acts from malice. |
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| The indictment against Adams, as I read it, is that he's a fat, pompous old windbag who assumes that anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a fool or a knave. |
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| Instead, according to the same Daily Record, he is a knave and a liar. |
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| In addition to the new children's area on the first floor, there is a balcony overlooking the knave that provides additional space for the congregation. |
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| And any justice who does not want to be thought a fool or a knave will take care to craft persuasive opinions that show the reasonableness of his or her conclusions. |
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| In his bucolic scheme, every official is a dolt, every priest a fool or knave, every milkmaid diseased and unchaste, every villager either a boozer or a chiseler. |
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| The word knave remains mostly in use today as the name of the lowest court card in a pack. |
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| As it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded. |
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| Supposing it a very vertuuus tiling, To he an arrant knave in libelling. |
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| He enjoys an Earl Grey in a small pub known as the Knave of Hearts in the heart of Oxfordshire. |
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| During the Spring David Burliuk gave two lectures on cubism and planned a polemical publication, which the Knave of Diamonds was to finance. |
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| He also wrote interviews and articles for many British magazines, including Knave. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| A knave and a quean, a thief and a strumpet, a couple of beggars, a brace of baggages. |
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| He is a knave, doubtless, but deserves well for unmasking this other knave. |
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| Here is a knave of a friar calleth me a mad priest, and yet I smite him not. |
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| But I always have a little distrust for the foolishness of a person who has once been a knave. |
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| The persecution of which they complained was the persecution of the honest man by the knave. |
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| Of those Yorkshire yeomen, one is too tall and the other too short for that bold knave. |
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| The name bezique itself is applied to the combination of the knave of diamonds and queen of spades. |
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| Dumnorix is a thick-skulled knave, who is, after all, good for little but blows. |
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| I know I am free, for I am a knave, if I have not forgot what wench had my maidenhead. |
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| Bespatter it, vituperate against it, strongly insist that any man or woman harbouring it is a fool or a knave, or both. |
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| It was not necessary, you knave, to bring me hither to tell me so much. |
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| They swanned close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric. |
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| Not so hardy, thou bawdy knave, said the damosel, that thou slay him. |
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| Whether knave, fool, or Bedlamite, it is intolerable that the fellow should go at large. |
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| If the villain must disgrace the family, must he blazon it abroad to every low-bred knave of his acquaintance? |
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| Then tis by the gentle craft, and to call one knave gently, is no harm. |
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| Ho, there, seize me yon knave that beareth the cognizance of tong. |
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| I took thee for an angler, and thou art but a poaching knave! |
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| This arrant rogue was only a petty knave that any one could dupe. |
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| It was the citizen of hearts replacing the ci-devant knave of hearts. |
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| But he did enjoy the idea of meeting that knave and circumventing him. |
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| Come, knave, find me a way, or I'll have you broken on the wheel. |
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| The knave has left wide space at the center for all of your darts. |
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| The man is but a very honest knave Full of fine phrases for life's merchandise, Selling most dear what he must hold most cheap, A windy brawler in a world of words. |
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| From whence is it that the knave is generally so quick-sighted to those symptoms and operations of knavery, which often dupe an honest man of a much better understanding? |
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| Noel Murless and Sandy Barclay enjoy a 44-1 double at Newbury as Stirling Castle beats Astonish, and Estaminet beats Summer Knave. |
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