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Example sentences for "blackguards"

Lexicographically close words:
blackguard; blackguarded; blackguarding; blackguardism; blackguardly; blackhead; blackheads; blacking; blackish; blackjack
  1. And the blackguards peached because I knew where they had hidden their whack, and they did not know where mine was.

  2. Then the blackguards cannot pay up, as you will; you will come out as white as snow, and they will be red with all that blood!

  3. Sonia has told me everything," he said; "and I can only regret that those blackguards have treated you and her as they have.

  4. Was it a mere coincidence, or had he, too, betrayed a collusion with those mean blackguards who had put me to that horrible torture?

  5. The trap set by those blackguards was most ingenious, and in innocence I fell into it.

  6. Squire O'Grady has such a pack o' blackguards about him, sure he could get anything swore he liked.

  7. But, however, let us manage our little affair, now that we're left in peace and quietness, for the blackguards are all over the bridge after the hunt.

  8. It was there, and all bullies and blackguards were compelled to abide by it So long as it was the fashion to fight with fists, the use of the knife, the bludgeon, and the brickbat was far rarer than it is now.

  9. Between the city and the Sweet Waters of Europe there was an encampment of perhaps the most remarkable and varied assortment of blackguards that ever got together in the history of civilised warfare.

  10. The bludgeon-men and blackguards went home to sleep off their morning's drink, and to recruit themselves for the orgy of the Chairing.

  11. The phrase in Miss Goold's letter in which she had originally described her men as blackguards recurred to his mind.

  12. The man is both a fool and a blackguard; but I don't think we are therefore to suppose that there are many fools and blackguards like him.

  13. If you turn out all the blackguards and all the dishonourable men, where will the club be?

  14. But if I had my way I'd take some of these blackguards who are fattening on the country's helplessness and I'd put 'em in the front line trenches.

  15. This expression was often repeated; for several days the ultra-democratic newspapers had done nothing but call the representatives the agents of the people, and these blackguards had taken kindly to the idea.

  16. I am not going to be robbed for nothing, and if my practice-bat is not back in its place before night I shall go and tell Bewley that he's got blackguards and fellows who use false keys in his school.

  17. But we have plenty of blackguards who would like to get a chance to carry it off.

  18. My dear Fox, In your letter to Holden you are pleased to observe "that of all the blackguards you ever met with I am the greatest.

  19. I cannot conclude without telling you, that of all the blackguards I ever met with, you are the greatest and the best.

  20. But,' said her father, 'there'll be such a swarm of blackguards as never was known.

  21. The blackguards will be outnumbered by the decent people, father.

  22. What romantic and beautiful blackguards they are!

  23. You tell me, sir," turning to Paul, "that these foul blackguards were actually on the deck of the ship?

  24. Considering how plenty blackguards are at home, I think it's nothing but greediness in us to want to take Russian and Austrian ones!

  25. That's the way the blackguards make books nowadays!

  26. Are we men to be badgered and silenced by half a score of blackguards and ruffians?

  27. And even those blackguards have an intensified reverence for the one;—but let the matter pass; for now we hide in gold these subjects, and sham not to see their flaunting.

  28. There are blackguards among university men, as everybody knows, and as there must be among all men.

  29. But even those blackguards can see the difference between a lady, or rather between a pure girl and—another.

  30. While the chiefs were making their speeches of peace and amity, a few hundred Texan blackguards rushed into the room with their pistols and knives, and began their work of murder.

  31. The plan was cunning enough, and proved that the blackguards were no novices in their profession, but they had not yet sufficiently acquired that peculiar tact natural to savage life.

  32. The blackguards were obliged to submit, and the dread of being scalped was too strong upon them to allow them to refuse.

  33. If the blackguards once find him out, it is all over with him.

  34. The blackguards are all in factory now, and I am sure they cannot see us from the windows.

  35. To tell you the truth, I rather wish they would mind their letters, for a more precious set of young blackguards I never seed.

  36. We reached the mayor's with a crowd of blackguards and gens-d'armes.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackguards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.