By the ox of St. Luke, thou idle, cogging knave—thou rascally, miscreant spy, if ever I catch thee dogging my footsteps, by day or night, or concerning thyself in any way about act of mine, I will think no more of drawing my dagger across thy villainly throat, than I would of slicing a melon or cucumber at my luncheon.

And though he has paid the penalty of his crime with his worthless life, yet many of his compeers in villainly adventure still live, and his daring and sworn associates are scattered throughout the northern portion of this land;

Shirley’s is a world of young lovers, delightfully protesting their eternal constancy, of villainly villains, of unscrupulous servants, and of “humour” characters such as seize and transport the imagination:[…]

Strikingly effective performance as the villainly Vitellia…

During the hours the villainly Mandel Pukur fellows kept us standing I became exceedingly thirsty, and also hungry, but gradually the need to urinate became of even more pressing urgency.

Emphases were given to the description of the actors' facial features and expression to fit the characters into righteous, moral and energetic types, as contrasted with the landlords' villainly physical appearance.

Her pastiche of a villainly adventure is far more exciting than most originals in the genre.

Le roman de la rose, ed. A. Strubel, 2097 ff: “See to it that you will not use these dirty and vulgar words, and also see to it that you don’t open your mouth to utter villainly things. I do not consider him courtly who calls the dirty and ugly by name.”

In these glorious envisionings, the ministerial Brainard, effete and villainly, had looked on gloomily from his place at the foot of the table, next to the kitchen maid.[…]Brainard—it had to be Brainard, Henry knew, not effete and villainly at all, but a perfectly ordinary fellow—[…]

And whan they vnderstode this they walked fast, & cam nigħ to the bridge, and sawe thre cristen that were 28 ouerthrawen on the bridge by strokkes of speerys. ‘Fourth,’ said then one of them, ‘we tary to longe / perceyue you not how this Dogges oppressen vylaynly these valyaunt & worthy crystens?’ / and anone they 32 bended þeir crosbowes, & shot ałł ones / and ouerthrewe doun on the bridge fro theire horses with that first shotte xxiiᵗⁱ paynemys.

My fortune them withstands, and I lykewyse may destnies vouche / To kyl that cursyd brood, and for my spouse vproote them quyte. / Nor not alone this grief doth Agamemnons kindred byte: / Nor Greeks haue onely cause for wedlock spoyle them selfs to arme. Yet had it bin ynough to stroy them ones, if but one harme / Suffized had their sinne, and not with spyte all female kinds / Thus villaynly disdain? what? doth this half trench puff their mynds?

Law, boaſts it’s pillars upright, liberal, great! Abilities, enhanc’d by virtues rare! Who villainly hurl headlong from it’s ſeat, / And ſuffering merit make their ſpecial care.

Ah, noble king, for God’s sake refrain your courage, ye have the name of sovereign noblesse, therefore now do not a thing that should blemish your renown, not to give cause to some to speak of you villainly.

This divine site of the nativity has been villainly usurped by the schismatic Greeks, and now the Catholic priest is forbidden to say Mass thereat.

[…]and the characters around the handsome samurai Nagoya Sanza and his rival, the villainly attractive Fuwa Banzaemon.

You, our sons, appear to be Russian people, but you serve the Yids. The same Yids who villainly destroyed His Majesty the Emperor, together with the Empress, their innocent daughters, and the adolescent heir to the throne.

“You are a villain for villainly were you created. To torment, inflict pains, sorrows, rival and attack great destinies is your lot”, he croaked, paused and bellowed.”

Your latest diabolical plan, a magnum opus of sheer terror and villainly villainous villainy, has been thwarted by a motley ragtag band of untrained and untried castoffs including an orphan, a luckless thief, and a prince whose parents perished at your hand decades ago.

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