Knaves Sentence Examples

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  • Keelhaul the scurvy knaves, hoist the jolly roger!

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  • William had not so understood the new invention of a united ministry as binding him to take into his service a united ministry of men whom he regarded as fools and knaves.

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  • The work by which he is known is the Fable of the Bees, published first in 1705 under the title of The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest (two hundred doggerel couplets).

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