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Definition of Knaves
1. knave [n] - See also: knave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knaves
Literary usage of Knaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1844)
"WEE knaves (whom all men knaves doe call) That serve knaves turnes to play withall,
... That in the ale-house, day and night, Cause drunken knaves to ..."
2. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"Composed by IL a lover of honest Men, and hater of knaves; and Printed in the
yeare of the discoverie of a Couple. 8vo. BL 8 leaves. ..."
3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"A pleasant conceited | tation of four knaves, &c. Printed H, in fours. Inglis'
Old Plays, 137, 10i. 10s. die, ¡til it A most pleasant and ..."
4. Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853)
"That being the state of the case, the great bulk of humans may be classed as
fools and knaves. The last are the thrashers and sword-fishes, ..."
5. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"Which makes a many knaves be ... their merry pilgrimage: he laughed at it, and
wisht all men had the like power to serve all such knaves in the like kind. ..."
6. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... More knaves Yet, pp. 104, 105, Percy :. vol. ix.) >2. Early in the seventeenth
century women of fashion were y fond of masks. See Rowland's Address " to ..."
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