Rogues

Examples

• There still remained an arrest to be effected, but what were these commonplace rogues that he should soil his hands with them? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• How think you, Sir Brian, were we not better make a virtue of necessity, and compound with the rogues by delivering up our prisoners? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is curious, when a man is bent upon play, by what clumsy rogues he will allow himself to be cheated, Dobbin said; and Emmy said, Indeed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Why, said Brummell to several of these half-and-half sort of gentry, have not I called you Dick, Tom, and John, you rogues? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It means lowering the value of the stone, and cheating the rogues in that way! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But suppose the rogues are bolder than you think, sir? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It IS the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Early in the coming week, the rogues must needs be released, and left free to follow their own devices. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• How is your friend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite, after the mauling he got from the rogues in Northumberland Street? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The men wear cleaned gloves, and are sad rogues, certainly, but they are not worse than Jack This and Tom That. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. Plato. The Republic.
• What inhuman rogues there are in the world! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And I couldn't be a match for the rogues, without being a match for you, who are the blackest-looking and the worst rogue between this and France. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. Plato. The Republic.
• In 1871 criminals were ordered to be photographed in England, and in America the Rogues’ Gallery became an institution in New York as early as 1857, ambrotypes being first used. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• That is clear enough; but what is not so clear is why at sight of us one of the rogues should instantly walk out of the room and hang himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If that makes a judge of rogues, you ought to be a good'un. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her mind seemed to be far more perturbed about her daughter than about the heathen rogues and their conspiracy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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