Those reasonable people turned out to be wrong, though at least they weren't knavish.
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They believe they are entitled to denounce the people with whom they disagree as knavish ignoramuses.
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Ms. Steinmetz's partner, John Russell, who plays the knavish John Willoughby, met the Bedlam crowd through her.
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Our best hope is that Trump reached this decision because he is erratic and knavish, rather than because he is placing himself above the reach of the law.
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The jurisdictions in which they operate are each acutely aware of any knavish tricks by the authorities in the other intended to support the home team, and are willing to challenge such arrangements in the World Trade Organisation.
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What Linz couldn't have possibly foreseen was that a knavish autocrat would win the U.S. presidency through technically-legitimate-though-undemocratic means, and that he'd be allowed to arson the government by a coequal branch—Congress—that has the power to stop him.
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I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
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Turcaret is a ruthless, dishonest and dissolute financier. His vulgar wife is as dissolute as himself. A harebrained marquis, a knavish chevalier and a coquettish baroness, to whom Turcaret is attracted, are among the other highly comic characters.
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His other books include Labour And The Left In The 1930s (1977), The Trade Unions In British Politics (with Chris Cook, 1982), Fabian Essays In Socialist Thought (1984), The Alternative (with Tony Wright and Tony Flower, 1990), Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks (1994) and Governing London (with Nirmala Rao, 2002).
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"Those that Hob-goblin call you, and sweet Puck, / You do their work, and they shall have good luck" said one of William Shakespeare's fairies. Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream may have revived flagging interest in Puck.Shakespeare's sources for Puck were assembled and analysed by Winifried Schleiner (1985). "Imaginative Sources For Shakespeare's Puck" Shakespeare Quarterly 36(1): 65–68. . .
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Reference to a mousetrap is made as early as 1602 in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Hamlet; act 3 sc.2), where it is the name given to the 'play-within-a-play' by Hamlet himself: "'tis a knavish piece of work", he calls it. There is a reference in the 1800s by Alexandre Dumas, père in his novel The Three Musketeers. Chapter ten is titled "A Mousetrap of the Seventeenth Century".
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Or the Commons Gratitude to the most Honourable Philip, Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery, for the great affection which hee alwaies bore unto them, London, 1641, 4to, with verses by Thomas Cartwright appended in some copies. # Newes out of Islington; or a Dialogue very merry and pleasant between a knavish Projector and honest Clod the Ploughman, with certaine songs, London, 1641, 12mo, reprinted by J. O. Halliwell in Contributions to Early English Literature, London, 1849, 4to.
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Here is an example of a Portuguese vilancete, written by Luís de Camões: Original (Mote:) Enforquei minha Esperança; Mas Amor foi tão madraço, Que lhe cortou o baraço. (Volta:) Foi a Esperança julgada Por setença da Ventura Que, pois me teve à pendura, Que fosse dependurada: Vem Cupido com a espada, Corta-lhe cerce o baraço. Cupido, foste madraço. English Translation (Mote:) I hanged my Hope; But Love was so knavish He cut off the noose.
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"A New History of Ireland" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 During World War I he protested the German submarine actions and while the Dean of St. Patrick's Church was quoted by The Telegraph as saying that he prays with all heart "that [the German] knavish tricks might be confounded". He married Isabella Mary Ovenden (née Robinson) in 1871. They had one daughter, Florence Irene Harriet Wynne-Finch (née Ovenden), and they also raised Charles Ovenden's niece Ella Webb (née Ovenden).
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Oberon and Titania are estranged because Titania refuses to give her Indian changeling to Oberon for use as his "knight" or "henchman", since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers. Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience. He calls upon Robin "Puck" Goodfellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called "love-in-idleness", which turns from white to purple when struck by Cupid's arrow. When the concoction is applied to the eyelids of a sleeping person, that person, upon waking, falls in love with the first living thing they perceive.
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Joseph Noel Paton, Puck and Fairies, detail from A Midsummer Night's Dream. If you had the knack, Puck might do minor housework for you, quick fine needlework or butter-churning, which could be undone in a moment by his knavish tricks if you displeased him. He may also do work for you if you leave him small gifts, such as a glass of milk or other such treats, otherwise he may do the opposite by "make[ing] the drink[beer] to bear no barm" and other such fiendish acts. Pucks are also known to be inherently lonely creatures, and often share the goal of acquiring friends.
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Their initial experiment was to pressure law-abiding and credulous passers-by into presenting their identity papers for inspection, and the apparent success earned Urmuz an unexpected following in school (his fans even heckled Vivat Dacia into accepting poultry heads as means of payment, before the society dissolved itself with ceremony).Ciprian, p.49 Another colleague, future traditionalist poet Vasile Voiculescu, recalled young Urmuz as "genially knavish", his humor being "cerebral, harder to detect and appreciate".Cernat, Avangarda, p.344 The core group of Urmuzian disciples, organized as a secret society, comprised Ciprian (nicknamed "Macferlan" by Urmuz), Alexandru "Bălălău" Bujoreanu and Costică "Pentagon" Grigorescu, together known as the pahuci.
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The English do not really love a > lord. What they love is the principle that originally lay behind > ennoblement. This was to impose a standard above that of mere wealth by > rewarding outstanding services to the crown, which preceded the nation-state > as the unifier in men’s lives, by admission to the orders of chivalry. It is > foolish in foreigners to sneer at the Englishman for loving titles when this > reveals a reverence for something higher than money. In practice robber- > barons may have become viscounts, knavish viscounts earls, and so upwards, > but the process only became finally ridiculous when it was extended beyond > the owners of acres and peasant “souls” to the owners of pieces of machinery > and shafts of coal.
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Over the centuries, the character traits attributed to the German Michel were subject to some change. The British historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote the most notable aspect of Deutscher Michel as portrayed in Imperial Germany was that: "The point about Deutscher Michel is that his image stressed both the innocence and simple- mindedness so readily exploited by cunning foreigners, and the physical strength he could mobilize to frustrate their knavish tricks and conquests when finally roused. 'Michel' seems to have been essentially an anti-foreign image". The central problem of creating a national identity in the newly unified Reich was all of the various German states had their own histories and traditions, none of which could be used as a symbol to appeal to everybody, leading to a situation where Hobsbawam noted: "Like many another liberated' people', 'Germany' was more easily defined by what it was against than in any way".
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Kakridis proposes that it is impossible to imagine Pericles deviating away from the expected funeral orator addressing the mourning audience of 430 after the Peloponnesian war. The two groups addressed were the ones who were prepared to believe him when he praised the dead, and the ones who did not. Gomme rejects Kakridis's position, defending the fact that "Nobody of men has ever been so conscious of envy and its workings as the Greeks, and that the Greeks and Thucydides in particular had a passion for covering all ground in their generalizations, not always relevantly." Marble bust of Pericles with a Corinthian helmet, Roman copy of a Greek original, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museums Kagan states that Pericles adopted "an elevated mode of speech, free from the vulgar and knavish tricks of mob- orators" and, according to Diodorus Siculus, he "excelled all his fellow citizens in skill of oratory".
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