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1. You were a blackguard in the City? Well, you are a saint at sea, we all are
2. “If this here’s an insult, y’can call me a whiskey-wallopin broken-belted blackguard wid his arse knockin at his knees
3. Just think where you are staying! That blackguard Pyotr Petrovitch couldn't find you better lodgings
4. His unpopularity with the blackguard multitude at the moment prevented my following his remains, but I helped to lay him in his coffin
5. "To think that I could for one instant have looked for help from that coarse brute, that depraved sensualist and blackguard!" he cried
6. At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,
7. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard
8. The saviour, the former hero, was flying like a mangy, unkempt sheep-dog at his lackey, and the lackey was jeering at him! And I shall never forgive you for the tears I could not help shedding before you just now, like some silly woman put to shame! And for what I am confessing to you now, I shall never forgive you either! Yes--you must answer for it all because you turned up like this, because I am a blackguard, because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom! And what is it to me that you don't understand a word of this! And what do I care, what do I care about you, and whether you go to ruin there or not? Do you understand? How I shall hate you now after saying this, for having been here and listening
9. When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed (the tirade was accompanied throughout by tears) her whole face worked convulsively
10. And says Bob Doran, with the hat on the back of his poll, lowest blackguard in
11. It represents a partially nude señorita, frail and lovely (his wife, as he solemnly assured me, taken by him from nature), practising illicit intercourse with a muscular torero, evidently a blackguard
12. He looked sideways in a friendly fashion at the sideface of Stephen, image of his mother, which was not quite the same as the usual handsome blackguard type they unquestionably had an insatiable hankering after as he was perhaps not that way built
13. Dimmesdale longed, at least, to shake hands with the tarry blackguard, and recreate himself with a few improper jests, such as dissolute sailors so abound with, and a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths! It was not so much a better principle as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis
14. Her new friends, suffering in silence under her insolences, would welcome a chance to blackguard her
15. When I began calling myself a scoundrel and a blackguard and my tears flowed (the tirade was accompanied throughout by tears)her whole face worked convulsively
16. "Poligny never knew how far that extraordinary blackguard of an Erik humbugged him
17. I had treated her like a poor ignorant Wretch and condescended to her Ignorance of Poetry all because I was wearing Breeches and a Wig, and she was wearing a Petticoat and Apron! What a Diff’rence mere Garments could make! ’Twas true, I had read Edmund Waller and knew that his Poem “To Phyllis” (which that Blackguard Tunewell claim’d for his own) was first publish’d perhaps four score and ten Years ago, but was that a Cause for Haughtiness? I had spent the tender Years of Childhood in a Great House with a fine Library; Polly had not
18. “Scoundrel! Blackguard! I’ll have you transported back to the wretched Jungle where your wretched Ancestors spawn’d you!”
19. (I knew the Prig that was pickin’ it fer a scurvy Blackguard; ’twas he that first turn’d me in!) But ’twas no Use tryin’ to warn the Victim in me present State, fer the Fellow could no more hear me when I whisper’d in his Ear than he could feel me ghostly Hand upon his Shoulder
20. This Pursuer was a terrible Man, Name of Seabury, with a red Beard to his Waist in which he had plaited colour’d Ribbands, and he was known as a Blackguard who did not e’en keep the Pyrate Code, but play’d into the Plans of the Colonial Governours, e’en turning in his own Men if the Reward were high enough
21. Cleland and how the Blackguard came to steal my History
22. “An’ where’s the scurvy Blackguard now?”
23. ‘Papa, he is a blackguard and a thief! I know he is! And what I have done, I have done;
24. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the cause of all
25. It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft
26. At the same time certain circumstances being given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, he had all the requisites for a blackguard
27. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself and becomes silly
28. Ah! you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you old blackguard, you child-stealer!"
29. —When a man has no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says un reguise
30. Rushworth, but much worse-looking, and with a blackguard character
31. — ‘I am ruined for ever in their opinion—’ said I to myself—’I am shut out for ever from their society, they already think me an unprincipled fellow, this letter will only make them think me a blackguard one
32. So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet
33. Just think where you are staying! That blackguard Pyotr Petrovitch couldn’t find you better lodgings … But you know I’ve had a little to drink, and that’s what makes me … swear; don’t mind it…
34. " Oh no, no, no, nothing, nothing of the sort! It did happen, but it wasn't that; it was an appointment, but not of that sort, and I hasten to say so or I shoidd be a blackguard; it did happen, but
35. That fellow's a blackguard and he's corrupting them
36. " You blackguard," I roared at him, and I raised my hand, but I did not bring it down ; " and your master's a blackguard, too I Tell him so directly," I added, and went down the stairs
37. "Blackguard," he cried, "do you know what a major is?" and according to his habit he shook A——f violently
38. In a word, Stepka, you are a blackguard
39. My best wishes for the day, Stepan Doroveitch," replies the latter politely, as he bows, glass in hand, towards Stepka, whom the moment before he had called a blackguard
40. Then I will tell every one how you have treated me, and, moreover, that you are a blackguard
41. “How d’ye do, Gania, you old blackguard?”
42. “But, uncle!” cried Mosgliakoff, at his wits' end, “it was Maria Alexandrovna herself told us that anecdote about Natalia Dimitrievna! I was here myself and heard it!—I was a blackguard, and listened at the keyhole!”
43. The saviour, the former hero, was flying like a mangy, unkempt sheep-dog at his lackey, and the lackey was jeering at him! And I shall never forgive you for the tears I could not help shedding before you just now, like some silly woman put to shame! And for what I am confessing to you now, I shall never forgive you either! Yes—you must answer for it all because you turned up like this, because I am a blackguard, because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom! And what is it to me that you don't understand a word of this! And what do I care, what do I care about you, and whether you go to ruin there or not? Do you understand? How I shall hate you now after saying this, for having been here and listening
44. “What sort of another blackguard are you? I’ll have you shot! Scoundrels!” yelled Kutúzov in a hoarse voice, waving his arms and reeling
45. Of course that meant that he was laughing at me, the blackguard
46. The devil take it all! And what need was there for it? And what was the particular necessity that admitted of no delay! My goodness! The devil has made a mess of it! Besides, he has such a character, too, he’s of such a playful, horrid disposition — he’s such a scoundrel, he’s such a nimble fellow! He’s such a toady! Such a lickspittle! He’s such a Golyadkin! I daresay he will misconduct himself; yes, he’ll disgrace my name, the blackguard! And now I have to look after him and wait upon him! What an infliction! But, after all, what of it? It doesn’t matter
47. “Yes, let Harry Ashley tell his story,” echoed Jack Grimsby, “and when he has finished let him say where and when he will measure swords with me, for if he lies he lies like a blackguard, and if he spoke the truth he speaks it like a liar
1. had underrated the Confederate Army, blackguarded Jeff Davis and accused
2. "No, my dear fellows, indeed he was not; he blackguarded me enough to last me for the rest of my life
1. when we have brought these blackguards to justice, you will hear from us again
2. Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting
3. was some funny story about the jealous old husband what was it at all and an oyster knife he went no he made her wear a kind of a tin thing round her and the prince of Wales yes he had the oyster knife cant be true a thing like that like some of those books he brings me the works of Master Francois Somebody supposed to be a priest about a child born out of her ear because her bumgut fell out a nice word for any priest to write and her a—e as if any fool wouldnt know what that meant I hate that pretending of all things with that old blackguards face on him anybody can see its not true and that Ruby and Fair Tyrants he brought me that twice I remember when I came to page 5 o the part about where she hangs him up out of a hook with a cord flagellate sure theres nothing for a woman in that all invention made up about he drinking the champagne out of her slipper after the ball was over like the infant Jesus in the crib at Inchicore in the Blessed Virgins arms sure no woman could have a child that big taken out of her and I thought first it came out of her side because how could she go to the chamber when she wanted to and she a rich lady of course she felt honoured H R H he was in Gibraltar the year I was born I bet he found lilies there too where he planted the tree he planted more than that in his time he might have planted me too if hed come a bit sooner then I wouldnt be here as I am he ought to chuck that Freeman with the paltry few shillings he knocks out of it and go into an office or something where hed get regular pay or a bank where they could put him up on a throne to count the money all the day of course he prefers plottering about the house so you cant stir with him any side whats your programme today I wish hed even smoke a pipe like father to get the smell of a man or pretending to be mooching about for advertisements when he could have been in Mr Cuffes still only for what he did then sending me to try and patch it up I could have got him promoted there to be the manager he gave me a great mirada once or twice first he was as stiff as the mischief really and truly Mrs Bloom only I felt rotten simply with the old rubbishy dress that I lost the leads out of the tails with no cut in it but theyre coming into fashion again I bought it simply to please him I knew it was no good by the finish pity I changed my mind of going to Todd and Bums as I said and not Lees it was just like the shop itself rummage sale a lot of trash I hate those rich shops get on your nerves nothing kills me altogether only he thinks he knows a great lot about a womans dress and cooking mathering everything he can scour off the shelves into it if I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright the one like a weddingcake standing up miles off my head he said suited me or the dishcover one coming down on my backside on pins and needles about the shopgirl in that place in Grafton street I had the misfortune to bring him into and she as insolent as ever she could be with her smirk saying Im afraid were giving you too much trouble what shes there for but I stared it out of her yes he was awfully stiff and no wonder but he changed the second time he looked Poldy pigheaded as usual like the soup but I could see him looking very hard at my chest when he stood up to open the door for me it was nice of him to show me out in any case Im extremely sorry Mrs Bloom believe me without making it too marked the first time after him being insulted and me being supposed to be his wife I just half smiled I know my chest was out that way at the door when he said Im extremely sorry and Im sure you were
4. Since she pays by piecework her blackguards are not likely to stick at a murder or two
5. Frank thought Rhett the blackest of blackguards and unsafe for decent women to speak to
6. Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I shouldn’t dare to be so presumptuous as to feel mean, if you’re interested
7. He was fleet, too, tho’ I should ne’er take him to a Race-Meeting and let all sorts of scurvy Blackguards lay Wagers upon his Flesh
8. “Those Blackguards were so frenzied in their Bloodlust that when they came to me, their Force was nearly spent
9. "The French Revolution is a heap of blackguards
10. "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor creatures were ashamed of love
11. You beUeve blackguards like that! "
12. I said to him just now, ‘The Karamazovs are not blackguards, but philosophers; for all true Russians are philosophers, and though you've studied, you are not a philosopher—you are a low fellow
13. “That’s the sort of woman for me! Which of you would think of doing a thing like that, you blackguards, eh?” he yelled
14. Stepan Trofimovitch assured me on one occasion that the very highest artistic talents may exist in the most abominable blackguards, and that the one thing does not interfere with the other
15. She must have had to bear a great deal at the hands of some "blackguards
16. But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued to shout: “Blackguards!
17. In order to please Suzanne, he gave her a good shaking in the presence of a witness—as grounds for divorce! It was while waiting for the decree to be made “absolute” that Suzanne naturally discovered her love for him, and her rooted objection to the attentions of the three blackguards who were kowtowing before her
