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  • Fitzsimmons had gentled plenty of miscreants, but he had no answers for Hard Tack.†   (source)
  • God save the miscreants from the two of us.†   (source)
  • You tell those fidgeting miscreants that they will stand in place all morning until it pleases me to acknowledge them.†   (source)
  • "Miscreants," Gorgon says in her slithery voice.†   (source)
  • It was the black miscreants who perpetrated mutiny, murder, and the repeated torture of my clients during a harrowing voyage of more than eight weeks.†   (source)
  • Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.†   (source)
  • Rest assured, these miscreants will take the greatest care of him.†   (source)
  • The concierge had lingered in the doorway for quite a while, holding the rats by their legs and keeping a sharp eye on the passers-by, on the off chance that the miscreants would give themselves away by grinning or by some facetious remark.†   (source)
  • What miscreant lurked in them, presently to be detected by the activities of the law?†   (source)
  • It was clear that the miscreant was in a parlous state.†   (source)
  • "Crime!" echoed Edwards: "is it a crime to drive a prying miscreant from his door?†   (source)
  • My lord merely said to his head miscreant, coolly: "Put up the slaves and sell them!"†   (source)
  • "There go two miscreants;" said he, "it is a pity they are not really related!†   (source)
  • And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must come out.†   (source)
  • We must draw near the rock on a calculation, and indivor to get the miscreants on a false scent.†   (source)
  • If I only knew now on which side these miscreants lay!†   (source)
  • It would be fatal to trust ourselves in the hands of the miscreants in our rear.†   (source)
  • Tut, for miscreants, be they red or be they white.†   (source)
  • We have arrested the miscreant.†   (source)
  • The miscreants have written a tissue of calumny in their article, and these are the men who seek for truth, and do battle for the right!†   (source)
  • And when he had finished and still stood alive and whole, their wavering impulse to break their oath and save the poor betrayed prisoner's life faded and vanished away, for plainly this miscreant had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle with the property of such a power as that.†   (source)
  • These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.†   (source)
  • The miscreant, a bony young man scorched black by the sun, rose to greet her with the courtesy of a host and the assurance of a relative.†   (source)
  • But let these miscreants look well to themselves, for there is a day coming when I will require of them a heavy reckoning for this work.†   (source)
  • Moncharmin's last phrase so dearly expressed the suspicion in which he now held his partner that it was bound to cause a stormy explanation, at the end of which it was agreed that Richard should yield to all Moncharmin's wishes, with the object of helping him to discover the miscreant who was victimizing them.†   (source)
  • And as for riding down that black, atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a cockroach.†   (source)
  • Poor Miles, and Arthur, and my dear guardian, Sir Richard, are free of him, and at rest: better that you were with them than that you bide here in the clutches of this miscreant.†   (source)
  • She was a second wife, many years the junior of her husband; and the hoary-headed miscreant was enough to try the patience of a wiser and better woman.†   (source)
  • Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!†   (source)
  • …were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the…†   (source)
  • But it would be unwise to expose yourself on the water; for them miscreants are beginning to bethink them again of powder and bullets.†   (source)
  • And once when he was speaking of the benighted condition of the king of Timbuctoo, and the number of his wives who were likewise in darkness, some gipsy miscreant from the crowd asked, "How many is there at Queen's Crawley, Young Squaretoes?" to the surprise of the platform, and the ruin of Mr. Pitt's speech.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out — on their peril to keep me one minute longer — with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.†   (source)
  • When Mr Lenville in a sudden burst of passion called the emperor a miscreant, and then biting his glove, said, 'But I must dissemble,' instead of looking gloomily at the boards and so waiting for his cue, as is proper in such cases, he kept his eye fixed upon the London manager.†   (source)
  • "If there's one, there's thirty of the miscreants!" he said, in a sort of episode to his whispered comments.†   (source)
  • Let the miscreant charge, and then we'll take it out like men; for the canoe he must not, and shall not have.†   (source)
  • I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly a terrible rumor was all over the town that this miscreant was no other than Fyodor Pavlovitch.†   (source)
  • He is a German by birth, and is called Giant Transcendentalist; but as to his form, his features, his substance, and his nature generally, it is the chief peculiarity of this huge miscreant that neither he for himself, nor anybody for him, has ever been able to describe them.†   (source)
  • Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's boy.†   (source)
  • For a whole week he was not able to sleep well, so much the villainy which he had played upon his trusting mother preyed upon his rag of conscience; but after that he began to get comfortable again, and was presently able to sleep like any other miscreant.†   (source)
  • I told you to take that loping miscreant under the line of white point; now, if your bullet went a hair's breadth it went two inches above it.†   (source)
  • To the boy, and with a dreadfully severe stare; foreseeing the danger of that miscreant's brushing me with it, or making some other sign of familiarity.†   (source)
  • But five or six months later, all the town was talking, with intense and sincere indignation, of Lizaveta's condition, and trying to find out who was the miscreant who had wronged her.†   (source)
  • Well, the next conflict with the devil was the hardest of them all; and that was when I came suddenly upon a camp of six Mingos asleep in the woods, with their guns and horns piled in away that enabled me to get possession of them without waking a miscreant of them all.†   (source)
  • Go, then; talk openly to the miscreant, and seem to believe him the truest friend you have on 'arth."†   (source)
  • I am deeply grateful to the generous friend who procured it, but I despise the miscreant who demanded payment for what never rightfully belonged to him or his.†   (source)
  • And now, Judith, it's your turn to speak, for them miscreants will expect an answer from each person, poor Hetty, perhaps, excepted."†   (source)
  • Hawkeye exclaimed, dropping the useless piece in bitter disappointment; "the miscreant has struck the rapid; and had we powder, it could hardly send the lead swifter than he now goes!"†   (source)
  • Killdeer seldom fails me, it is true; but the Oswego makes a distant mark, and that miscreant showed little more than his head and shoulders above the bushes, and an onpractysed hand and eye might have failed.†   (source)
  • Content is a great fortifier of good looks, and I'll warrant you, Hist is contented enough, now she is out of the hands of these miscreants, and with her chosen warrior!†   (source)
  • By no means fire until I give the word; we must not let the crack of the rifle be heard except in the last resort, since all the rest of the miscreants are still within hearing.†   (source)
  • "Honour, if you die for it!" returned the miscreant, holding up a hand in affected horror at so treacherous a threat.†   (source)
  • I love no Mingo, as is just, seeing how much I have consorted with the Delawares, who are their mortal and natural enemies; but I never pull trigger on one of the miscreants unless it be plain that his death will lead to some good end.†   (source)
  • I dare to say that such a lovely spot as this, would not be likely to be overlooked by such plunderers, for, though I've not been in the way of quarreling with them tribes myself, the Delawares give me such an account of 'em that I've pretty much set 'em down in my own mind, as thorough miscreants."†   (source)
  • A hundred times in the course of that night did Middleton fancy that the communication of the miscreant was entitled to some attention, and as often did he reject the idea as too wild and visionary for another thought.†   (source)
  • As the matter now stands, he has gained himself credit; and, could he once drive off these miscreants, and make an honorable retreat, laying the huts and block in ashes, no doubt, Lundie would remember it and sarve him accordingly.†   (source)
  • "Old World!" retorted the trapper, "that is the miserable cry of all the half-starved miscreants that have come into this blessed land, since the days of my boyhood!†   (source)
  • Besides, the Sarpent is out with them; and if the miscreants are to be found at all, you may trust to his inmity and sight: the first being stronger, and the last nearly, if not quite as good as my own.†   (source)
  • "It will be well," whispered the trapper, who knew enough of the language he heard to comprehend perfectly the subject of the discussion, "if the travellers who lie near the willow brake are not awoke out of their sleep by a visit from these miscreants.†   (source)
  • Though, were we only a party of men, it would be like a hunt to the lusty and brave to play at hide-and-seek with yonder miscreants on the other shore, Jasper," continued the guide, into whose character there entered no ingredient which belonged to vain display or theatrical effect, "will you undertake to bring in the canoe?"†   (source)
  • And these four knights did many battles upon the miscreants or Turks.†   (source)
  • So it befell on a time that the miscreant Saracens landed in the country of Cornwall soon after these Sessoins were gone.†   (source)
  • In both these cases the public becomes a prey to every miscreant, who can tamper successfully with the follies either of age or infancy.†   (source)
  • Give us proof of your sincerity by publishing it at St. James's, to the commanders in chief at Boston, to the Admirals and Captains who are piratically ravaging our coasts, and to all the murdering miscreants who are acting in authority under HIM whom ye profess to serve.†   (source)
  • Sir, said the Prince Boudwin, it was so that an I had tarried till that I had sent for you those miscreants had destroyed my country.†   (source)
  • And at point of the day the good Prince Boudwin with all his fellowship set on the miscreants with shouts and cries, and slew to the number of forty thousand, and left none alive.†   (source)
  • So he went into his chamber, and counterfeit letters; and the letters specified that the Pope desired Sir Tristram to come himself, to make war upon the miscreants.†   (source)
  • And when they had dined King Mark sent for his brother and said thus: Brother, how sped you when the miscreants arrived by you? meseemeth it had been your part to have sent me word, that I might have been at that journey, for it had been reason that I had had the honour and not you.†   (source)
  • When this clerk was come by the mean of the king, anon withal King Mark sent these letters unto Sir Tristram and bade him say thus: that an he would go war upon the miscreants, he should be had out of prison, and to have all his power.†   (source)
  • So anon King Mark sent unto Sir Dinas the Seneschal that he should put down all the people that he had raised, for he sent him an oath that he would go himself unto the Pope of Rome to war upon the miscreants; and this is a fairer war than thus to arise the people against your king.†   (source)
  • When Sir Dinas understood that King Mark would go upon the miscreants, then Sir Dinas in all the haste put down all the people; and when the people were departed every man to his home, then King Mark espied where was Sir Tristram with La Beale Isoud; and there by treason King Mark let take him and put him in prison, contrary to his promise that he made unto Sir Percivale.†   (source)
  • The miscreant was brought to stand on the plinth in the center of the square.†   (source)
  • "It doesn't matter," I protested, seeing the miscreant's lower lip quiver.†   (source)
  • The crush of bodies around the pillory was so great that little of the miscreant could be seen, but the crowd drew back a bit to allow the locksman free movement for the ear-nailing.†   (source)
  • Stephen withstood the bane of miscreant eyes glinting stern under wrinkled brows.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced?†   (source)
  • GUARD I gall thine ears—this miscreant thy mind.†   (source)
  • And these four knights did many battles upon the miscreants or Turks.†   (source)
  • More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.†   (source)
  • Trembling the miscreant stood, unarm'd and bound; He star'd, and roll'd his haggard eyes around, Then said: 'Alas! what earth remains, what sea Is open to receive unhappy me?†   (source)
  • So it befell on a time that the miscreant Saracens landed in the country of Cornwall soon after these Sessoins were gone.†   (source)
  • Where are there giants in Spain or miscreants in La Mancha, or enchanted Dulcineas, or all the rest of the silly things they tell about you?†   (source)
  • O vassal! miscreant!†   (source)
  • So am I purposed; never by my will Shall miscreants take precedence of true men, But all good patriots, alive or dead, Shall be by me preferred and honored.†   (source)
  • Next morning we let out, and had gone but a small distance from the city, when there came a multitude of people of the country to the gates of the city, demanding satisfaction of the Ruffian governor for insulting their priests, and burning their great Cham Cai-Thaungu, who dwelt in the sun, and no mortal would violate this image but some Christian miscreants; and being already no less than thirty thousand strong, they announced war against him and all his Christians.†   (source)
  • When we were there where it opens below to give passage to the scourged, the Leader said, "Stop, and let the sight strike on thee of these other miscreants, of whom thou hast not yet seen the face, because they have gone along in the same direction with us."†   (source)
  • I have vanquished giants and I have sent her caitiffs and miscreants; but where are they to find her if she is enchanted and turned into the most ill-favoured peasant wench that can be imagined?†   (source)
  • O populace miscreant above all, that art in the place whereof to speak is hard, better had ye been here[1] or sheep or goats!†   (source)
  • No, such a sight could never bring me joy; Nor this fair city with its battlements, Its temples and the statues of its gods, Sights from which I, now wretchedst of all, Once ranked the foremost Theban in all Thebes, By my own sentence am cut off, condemned By my own proclamation 'gainst the wretch, The miscreant by heaven itself declared Unclean—and of the race of Laius.†   (source)
  • Sir, said the Prince Boudwin, it was so that an I had tarried till that I had sent for you those miscreants had destroyed my country.†   (source)
  • Then turning to address Don Quixote he said, "And you, num-skull, who put it into your head that you are a knight-errant, and vanquish giants and capture miscreants?†   (source)
  • And after the two rabid ones upon whom I had kept my eye had disappeared, I turned it to look at the other miscreants.†   (source)
  • The duke and duchess suppressed their laughter so as not altogether to mortify Don Quixote, for they saw through Sancho's impertinence; and to change the conversation, and keep Sancho from uttering more absurdities, the duchess asked Don Quixote what news he had of the lady Dulcinea, and if he had sent her any presents of giants or miscreants lately, for he could not but have vanquished a good many.†   (source)
  • And at point of the day the good Prince Boudwin with all his fellowship set on the miscreants with shouts and cries, and slew to the number of forty thousand, and left none alive.†   (source)
  • But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father's city and his father's gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen's blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels— For Polyneices 'tis ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight.†   (source)
  • So he went into his chamber, and counterfeit letters; and the letters specified that the Pope desired Sir Tristram to come himself, to make war upon the miscreants.†   (source)
  • When this clerk was come by the mean of the king, anon withal King Mark sent these letters unto Sir Tristram and bade him say thus: that an he would go war upon the miscreants, he should be had out of prison, and to have all his power.†   (source)
  • So anon King Mark sent unto Sir Dinas the Seneschal that he should put down all the people that he had raised, for he sent him an oath that he would go himself unto the Pope of Rome to war upon the miscreants; and this is a fairer war than thus to arise the people against your king.†   (source)
  • And when they had dined King Mark sent for his brother and said thus: Brother, how sped you when the miscreants arrived by you? meseemeth it had been your part to have sent me word, that I might have been at that journey, for it had been reason that I had had the honour and not you.†   (source)
  • When Sir Dinas understood that King Mark would go upon the miscreants, then Sir Dinas in all the haste put down all the people; and when the people were departed every man to his home, then King Mark espied where was Sir Tristram with La Beale Isoud; and there by treason King Mark let take him and put him in prison, contrary to his promise that he made unto Sir Percivale.†   (source)
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