The name Robin (a French form from Rob, which is of course a short form for Robert) would serve both for "the shrewd and knavish sprite" - the German Knecht Ruprecht (see Grimm's Teut. [Please select]
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As we passed this establishment, we saw Vogel's broad German face and knavish-looking eyes thrust from his door. [Please select]
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"But I am sorry your knavish partner has cheated you out of so much money." [Please select]
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And being uneducated he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish, breeding in his soul. [Please select]
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The Bee seemed utterly distraught at losing her bearings under the influence of my knavish tricks. [Please select]
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Gangs could afford to corrupt witnesses or to pay knavish lawyers skilled in applying these vagaries of legislation. [Please select]
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Some occurrence of the hour may have suggested the knavish adept with his divining-rod. [Please select]
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An honest Delaware now, being fairly vanquished, would have lain still, and been knocked on the head, but these knavish Maquas cling to life like so many cats-o'-the-mountain.' [Please select]
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He has lost money, and a knavish neighbor has threatened to foreclose a mortgage on the farm and turn out the old people to die or go to the poorhouse. [Please select]
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