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"roguery" Definitions
  1. an act or behavior characteristic of a rogue
  2. mischievous play

48 Sentences With "roguery"

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Her small devices for thrift giving her a sense of roguery.
All manner of rogues and roguery has immemorially delighted in aliases.
This is a vile falsehood, devised for some infernal scheme of roguery.
What iss that but roguery, for all that this Mr. Harness says!
These occasions afforded such scope for roguery that their popularity was gradually reduced.
But how could that be, when there is nothing in it but roguery!
Who can quarrel with a performance so vibrant with venal roguery and sheepish love?
I have lived as a rogue till I have no other nature than roguery.
He knew by this circumstance, that it was roguery, not accident, which caused the smoke.
He did not part from us like one that had any masterpiece of roguery in view.
I wonder how many families are driven to roguery and to ruin by great practitioners in Crawlers way?
Now, he was faced with their roguery that was reaching a fever pitch, under the guise of divine influence.
And let us have a prelude about all this sort of roguery, like the preludes of our other laws.
But the term has come to connote as much the episodic nature of the original species as the dynamic of roguery.
Yet roguery can be a power for good: when the public interest demands, British hacks burn bridges and attack with rare vigour.
You see, part of the immense appeal of the film to me as a child was the sheer roguery of its anti-hero.
Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
The good American is, as a rule, pretty hard upon roguery, but he atones for his austerity by an amiable toleration of rogues.
Naturally, these unfortunate other nations don't have the same prerogative to invade us and change our government if they determine us to be guilty of roguery.
Anyway, given the casualties on all sides, if a bit of roguery here and there left some innocent dead around, well that's the way wars are fought.
Poor Relief was introduced for the deserving poor, while at the same time for the rogues it was whipping and, if they continued in their roguery, death for felony.
The code of morals followed by these characters is open to criticism, but they are human and genial in their roguery, and compare far from unfavourably with the cynical creations of contemporary novels.
According to A.E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Hermit card carries several divinatory associations: > 9.THE HERMIT.--Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, > dissimulation, roguery, corruption. _Reversed:_ Concealment, disguise, > policy fear, unreasoned caution.
Le Palais Lingerie, space classy, cozy and trendy where you can make your choice of lingerie among a wide range of products, but also of roguery, discreetly and with very good advice from the hostesses.
Oleksandr Syromiatnykov (born on July 12, 1994, in Ukraine) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer. He is a silver medalists of the 2019 European GamesPower of hands and no roguery/ Ukrainians take home two canoe medalsMinsk 2019 profile.
At one extreme there was the picaresque novel, with its implicit satire of a society in which one could make one's way by cleverness and roguery rather than by honest work that is, if one did not happen to be born a nobleman.
What has > been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the > other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. ... > Our sister states of Pennsylvania and New York, however, have long subsisted > without any establishment at all. The experiment was new and doubtful when > they made it.
These are actually hired impersonators. During this time he intercepts a letter to Clarissa from Anna Howe that would expose the true extent of his deception and roguery. He commits forgery to put an end to the communication between them. Eventually, he persuades Clarissa to accompany his imposter-relatives out in a carriage, and thus carries her back to the disguised brothel.
Despite this move, Wolfe continued his penchant for piracy, and began pirating Day's lucrative metrical psalters. His former master, on discovering Wolfe's roguery, led a raid on Wolfe's premises and confiscated printing materials. Wolfe challenged the raid in the Court of Star Chamber: on 18 May 1584, he issued a bill of complaint accusing Day of illegally damaging his property.Hoppe, 255.
While most commentators have moved away from the Soviet view of the tale as political, most still accept the idea that the tale implicitly supports Frol and his roguery. For example, the historian Nancy Shields Kollmann says that Frol and other rogues of this period were “celebrated as heroes”.Kollmann, Nancy Shields. “Society, Identity and Modernity in Seventeenth-Century Russia.” In Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth Century Russia, ed.
He is somewhat responsible for Imran's paradoxical personality. Initially wanting Imran to become a professor at a local university, he was very upset when Imran was appointed as a special officer in his own department. Later, he cancelled Imran's license by dismissing his roguery strategies that he employed for catching a smuggler in "Bhayanak Aadmi" (The Frightening Man - #4). Highly annoyed by Imran and his actions, he then ordered him to leave the house.
A letter of January 24, 1623 from colonist John Harrison to his brother, Richard Harrison, states that Captain Powell, and others, were dead.Coldham, Peter Wilson. The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660: a comprehensive listing compiled from English Public Records of those who took ship to the Americas for political, religious, and economic reasons; of those who were deported for vagrancy, roguery, or non-conformity; and of those who were sold to labour in the new colonies. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. .
The calendar mosaic from El Djem, Tunisia (Roman Africa), which places March as the first month, shows three men using sticks to beat an animal hide. Lydus's understanding of Mamurius may be connected to medieval lore of the wodewose or wild man of the wood, who could play a similar role in winter or new year ceremonies pertaining to Twelfth Night and carnival.Alison Williams, Tricksters and Prankster: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Rodopi, 2000), p. 125.
" "On the other hand it is the business of government to issue money. This is perceived as soon as the great labor saving invention of money supplants barter. To leave it to every one who chose to do so to issue money would be to entail general inconvenience and loss, to offer many temptations to roguery, and to put the poorer classes of society at a great disadvantage. These obvious considerations have everywhere, as society became well organized, led to the recognition of the coinage of money as an exclusive function of government.
We can deduce that Frol Skobeev was well-known and popular among literate Russians throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineetenth century by the records of the number of published copies.Morris, Marcia A. The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000) p.51. The novelist Ivan Turgenev referred to the Tale in a personal letter, calling it “an extraordinarily remarkable work… with superb characters and a movingly naïve style.” Turgenev, I.S. & Lehrman, H.E. Letters: A Selection (New York: Knpof, 1961) p. 51.
Owing to the absence of material on early oral Russian literature, this is impossible to prove. Frol Skobeev was one of a handful of other texts in the late seventeenth-century Russia that moved away from the models of homiletic, hagiographical and historical writing. The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn and Tale of Woe and Misfortune(Повесть о горе-злочастии) also broke with the literary conventions of the time. However, both these tales conclude with their protagonist renouncing their sins and becoming a monk, while Frol Skobeev never receives a comeuppance for his roguery.
The various adaptations vary in their style and focus, some intending to set a moral example or criticize excesses in monastic life, others simply intending to amuse the reader. A connection between Friar Rush and Hödekin, a kobold figure of German folklore, was suggested by the Shakespeare scholar George Lyman Kittredge,Kittredge (1900), noted in Frank Wadleigh Chandler, The Literature of Roguery (1907, vol. I:56ff). who noted the connection has been made in Reginald Scott's Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584. Kittredge (1900) criticizes the then-common identification of Friar Rush with Robin Goodfellow as simplistic.
Smith 92–93 The former was a small pocket edition that was largely based on East's 1592 publication of the same name. This work, although pirated and filled with small errors, provides some evidence of Barley's editorial skill; musicologist Robert Illing notes that if Barley "is to be discredited for roguery, he must also be applauded for his strokes of musical imagination" for successfully compressing such a large work into a pocket- sized production.Illing 223 In Allison's work, the two claimed that they had exclusive rights on the metrical psalter. Duly provoked, Day sued.
A well-publicised court case at the end of the first years trading culminated in Mr Justice Swift stating “I do not want to say anything in any way condemnatory of dog racing as a whole. I know nothing about dog racing and I only have to deal with the facts put before me in this case. But the amount of roguery exposed before me is greater than anything I have ever seen in any form of sport”. The case to which he referred was the suing of the Wakefield track owners Leonard Parker and Jane Hargreaves by Halifax bookmaker Willie Lumb.
Nickanan Night (sometimes called Hall Monday or Peasen Monday) is a Cornish feast, traditionally held during Shrovetide, specifically on the Monday before Lent.MA Courtney Cornish feast and feasten cutoms Sometimes called roguery night in West Cornwall, England, UK, this event was an excuse for local youths to undertake acts of minor vandalism and play practical jokes on neighbours and family.The Cornish Traditional Year - Simon Reed; 2009. The name Nickanan may come from the practice of knocking on doors and running away which is known as 'Nicky nicky nine doors' in some parts of the English-speaking world.
Florizel and Perdita arrive, and they are greeted effusively by Leontes. Florizel pretends to be on a diplomatic mission from his father, but his cover is blown when Polixenes and Camillo, too, arrive in Sicilia. The meeting and reconciliation of the kings and princes is reported by gentlemen of the Sicilian court: how the Old Shepherd raised Perdita, how Antigonus met his end, how Leontes was overjoyed at being reunited with his daughter, and how he begged Polixenes for forgiveness. The Old Shepherd and Young Shepherd, now made gentlemen by the kings, meet Autolycus, who asks them for their forgiveness for his roguery.
In the Derby on 26 May he started at 7/1 in a field of nineteen, with Bend Or being made the 2-1 favourite. The race, which was run on very firm ground, attracted the customary huge crowd. Among those in attendance many MPs, as Parliament was adjourned for the day despite the fierce objections of one member, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, who denounced the sport as "rascality and roguery". After a delay caused by the crowd overflowing onto the racecourse, Robert the Devil broke quickly and was sent into the lead by his jockey, Rossiter, with a mile to travel.
However, the tale becomes more novelistic in the middle sections: time becomes open in the Bakhtinian sense and the narrator loses his omniscience during the middle section when Savva is adventuring with the demon. The tale, along with The Tale of Frol Skobeev has sometimes been compared to the picaresque mode found in Spanish Baroque literature and other elsewhere, insofar as it charts the adventures of a rogue anti-hero.Morris, Marcia A. The Literature of Roguery in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000) The theme of making a pact with the devil has led some commentators to compare the work to Goethe's Faust.
In the 1803 novel Der Zwerg by Goethe's brother-in-law Christian August Vulpius, a dwarf called "Hüttchen" pretends to be a helpful sprite but eventually turns out to be the Devil.Yannik Behme, "Der Zwerg", Andere Klassik – Das Werk von Christian August Vulpius (1762-1827), ed. Alexander Košenina, Hannover 2012, pp. 177f. A connection between Hödekin and Friar Rush, a rascally devil in the guise of a friar, who murderously subverts the abbot's household while seeming to make himself useful in the kitchen and with chores, was suggested by the Shakespeare scholar George Lyman Kittredge,Kittredge, "The Friar's Lantern and Friar Rush", Publications of the Modern Language Association 15.4 pp 415ff, noted in Frank Wadleigh Chandler, The Literature of Roguery (1907, vol. I:56ff).
Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already > much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. > Rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed > it among themselves, as they have lately done. If a lock, let it have been > made in whatever country, or by whatever maker, is not so inviolable as it > has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest > persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to > apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of the knowledge is > necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It > cannot be too earnestly urged that an acquaintance with real facts will, in > the end, be better for all parties.
The Mousmé, The Play Pictorial, July 1911, p. 40 At this stage in Courtneidge's career, there was some feeling in theatrical circles that her elevation to star status was largely due to her being Robert Courtneidge's daughter. Reviewing The Mousmé, The Observer wrote that the co-authors had "failed to supply any adequate dramatic raison d'être for the prominent character of Miyo, a fair-haired Japanese damsel, embodied by Miss Cicely Courtneidge with much sprightliness but far too much effort, facial and otherwise, of coy significance.""New Japanese Play", The Observer, 10 September 1911, p. 8 The Times liked her better and praised her "pretty impudence and roguery"."Shaftesbury Theatre – 'The Mousmé'", The Times, 11 September 1911, p. 9 Advertisement for The Pearl Girl, 1913 Courtneidge continued to star in her father's productions. In September 1913, she played the part of Lady Betty Biddulph in the musical comedy The Pearl Girl."The Pearl Girl", The Times, 26 September 1913, p.
The criticism has been described as an attack abounding in clean hits but marred by bitter sarcasm, such as "is the coitus a sacrifice the individual makes? You must be – I repeat it – a very strangely organized being", and for denying Schopenhauer's deduction that the will is thing in itself: "you also have the sad honor, to stand at the same level as those who have misunderstood Copernicus and still confidently believe that the sun turns around the earth." Friedrich Nietzsche offers a scathing criticism of von Hartmann, calling his philosophy "unconscious irony" and "roguery", in the second of his Untimely Meditations, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life.Wikisource:On the Use and Abuse of History for Life British film-maker and author Edouard d'Araille provides a modern-day appraisal of the philosophy of von Hartmann in his introductory essay to the 2001 Edition (3 Volumes) of The Philosophy of the Unconscious.
He was also an excellent actor and mimic, able to > personate a King's officer, merchant or countryman, as the exigencies of the > case required. In one of the contemporary pamphlets, there is given what is > most evidently a fictitious account of his youth and early days in which he > is represented as a being a footman for Sir George Acheson of Markethill, > and while in the gentleman's employment practising himself in all the > accounts of roguery. Cosgrave's account seems quite probable when he says – > "Redmond once happened to be at the killing of a gentleman in a quarrel, and > flying for safety, stayed abroad for a long time, still refusing to come to > a trial, till he was outlawed, which put him into his shifts." It is likely > that O'Hanlon fled to France and there joined the Army where he acquired > which he so often turned to good use in his after-career, and also was able > to speak French like a native, Gaelic and English being equally at his > command.

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