Villains
['vɪlənz]
Examples
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I do not know, said the man, what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It's evidently the same villains who broke into Acton's. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And when the culprits came before the dais,--How comes it, villains! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The villains, he said, the base treacherous villains, to desert me at this pinch! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yaas, to be sure I do, drawled Lord Ingram; and the poor old stick used to cry out 'Oh you villains childs! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Pin the villains to the earth with my lance, Wamba, if they offered us any impediment. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated in the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Damascenes are the ugliest, wickedest looking villains we have seen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Harold