Knavery

And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. ❋ Unknown (1904)

And then came Black Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy-life, to press and prod and mold it till it became a big, bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Cairo is a sharper and a past master in knavery, and he will certainly slay the Jew and bring hither the dress.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then a certain wanton slave of his belly, lamenting the prohibition against drink, adopted a deep kind of knavery, and found a new way to indulge his desires. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)

Now, I think that the longer we preserve that abhorrence for knavery which is the generous instinct of youth, why, the fairer will be our manhood, and the more reverend our age. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

What strange confusion will the spectacle of that knavery which is universally practised through all the existing classes of society produce in the mind? ❋ Unknown (1796)

This is just the latest punch in a long fight against Google: last year the alliance compared the settlement to John D. Rockefeller's "knavery" in colluding with railroads in the 19th century. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here too ought to be mentioned the knavery which is practised by officiales and other episcopal and spiritual officers, who ban, load, hunt and drive the poor people with great burdens, as long as a penny remains. ❋ Martin Luther (1514)

Book group cites Rockefeller's 'knavery' in countering Google deal book settlement, comparing the company's moves to John D. Rockefeller's "knavery" in colluding with railroads in the 19th ❋ Unknown (2009)

"knavery" and "deceiving his creditors" in the arrangements about his fine, it is not a little strange to find that at the end of his life ❋ John Morley (1852)

The Tea Party candidate represents the worst species of brazenness, brainlessness, knavery, and hypocrisy since the Know-Nothings of the 1840s and 1850s, a party driven by popular fears that the country would be taken over by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, hostile to Anglo-Saxon values. ❋ Robert Brustein (2010)

"Right now Republican knavery poses a far graver threat to freedom and rationality than does Democratic." ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

Right now Republican knavery poses a far graver threat to freedom and rationality than does Democratic. ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

They are proving to be fools who are not really ready for prime-time knavery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The cookies] are gone... Who was [responsible] for this [knavery]? ❋ Leroop (2021)

They [know that] their knavery is no [secret] but they don't [mind]. ❋ SGPExtra (2021)