The 6,537 occurrences of bastard

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He has plenty of bastards to take your place.

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It was I, Damis, the Nepthalim, the 'half-breed bastard' whom you despised.

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Even the bastard-formations either cease to be fertile, or, remaining fertile, finally return to one or the other stem-form of the originally crossed species.

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Magic, therefore, was a science groping in the dark, and later became "a bastard sister of science," as Frazer puts it.

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But, like astrology, magic was religious in origin, and always remained a bastard sister of religion.

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Instead of embracing one of the many current varieties of socialism which masquerade as his bastard progeny, he would either accept his interlocutor's premisses and tell him to build up his precious northern civilization on a basis of slavery; or he would reject them and advise him, with Samuel Butler, to make a bonfire of the machines.

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When that rule perished, when that class lost its local ascendancy, government became the bastard compromise that we have known, with power inharmoniously divided between officialdom and agitators.

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After all its companion is but a bastard of the loud, malignant, antic muse of Marston; the elegies are cold, elaborate, and very tedious; the _Transformed Metamorphosis_ is better verse but harder reading than _Sordello_ itself.

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Bastard of Orleans.

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Bastard.

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John I. i. Faulconbridge, Philip the Bastard.

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I. i. Orleans, bastard of.

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The files are classified as Double Cut , of which there are the rough , middle , bastard , second cut , smooth , and dead smooth .

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The Float Cut , which is either rough , bastard or smooth ; and The Rasp Cut , either rough , bastard or smooth .

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Bastard.

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But when its energies begin to wither, when self-indulgence takes the place of self-sacrifice, when its sons and daughters become degenerate, then it is that a spurious and bastard humanitarianism masquerading as religion declares war to be an anachronism and a barbaric sin."

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From unions between Hottentot women and the Dutch sprang the mixed race whom the Dutch call Bastards and the English Griquas, and who, though now dying out, like the French and Indian half-breeds of Western Canada, played at one time a considerable part in colonial politics.

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Expressing a preference for the Italian method of pronunciation, I dared to say that it seemed to be the most correct, inasmuch as the Italian language was but bastard Latin.

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Nor were they however without a leader, though they longed for their own leader; but Medon, the bastard son of Oïleus, whom Rhina brought forth by city-wasting Oïleus, marshalled them.

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written and set forth in print, a book of true obedience, wherein he had openly declared queen Mary to be a bastard) so irritated him, that he exclaimed, Carry away this frenzied fool to prison.

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I came, 'tis true, and looked for fowl of price, The bastard phœnix, bird of paradise, And for no less than aromatic wine Of maiden's-blush, commix'd with jessamine.

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Love, love me now, because I place Thee here among my righteous race: The bastard slips may droop and die Wanting both root and earth; but thy Immortal self shall boldly trust To live for ever with my Just.

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BASTARDS.

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Our bastard children are but like to plate Made by the coiners--illegitimate.

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With trials those, with terrors these He proves, And hazards those most whom the most He loves; For Sceva, darts; for Cocles, dangers; thus He finds a fire for mighty Mutius; Death for stout Cato; and besides all these, A poison, too, He has for Socrates; Torments for high Attilius; and, with want, Brings in Fabricius for a combatant: But bastard-slips, and such as He dislikes, He never brings them once to th' push of pikes.

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Our bastard children are but like to plate, II.

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Three hundred stood sleek in their high stalls; for all the Teucrians in order he straightway commands them to be led forth, fleet-footed, covered with embroidered purple: golden chains hang drooping over their chests, golden their housings, and they champ on bits of ruddy gold: for the absent Aeneas a chariot and pair of chariot horses of celestial breed, with nostrils breathing flame; of the race of those which subtle Circe bred by sleight on her father, the bastard issue of a stolen union.

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And on Antiphates first, for first he came, the bastard son of mighty Sarpedon by a Theban mother, he hurls his javelin and strikes him down; the Italian cornel flies through the yielding air, and, piercing the gullet, runs deep into his breast; a frothing tide pours from the dark yawning wound, and the steel grows warm where it pierces the lung.

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At a future day, should the marriage result in children, there will be much trouble, for the law declares that children of a priest shall stand, in matters of inheritance, on a par with bastards....

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of the parish of Thurelston to bee Register of the sayde Parish,' and was signed by 'Will Bastard,' and dated 'September 20th, 1653.'

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Where will the impositions on it by bastard genius end?

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Yea, your marriages are unlawful and your children bastards while there is a Muscovite in your midst.

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His majesty had prayed on his death-bed that Almighty God would protect the realm from false opinions, and especially from his unworthy sister; he had reflected that both the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth had been cut off by act of parliament from the succession as illegitimate;[10] the Lady Mary had been disobedient to her father; she had been again disobedient to her brother; she was a capital and principal enemy of God's word; and both she and her sister were bastards born; King Henry did not intend that the crown should be worn by either of them; King Edward, therefore, had, before his death, bequeathed {p.006} it to his cousin the Lady Jane; and, should the Lady Jane die without children, to her younger sister; and he had entreated the council, for their honours' sake and for the sake of the realm, to see that his will was observed."

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They imagined that her only title was as a presumptively legitimate child; that if the Act of Divorce between Catherine of Arragon and Henry was repealed, she must then, as a bastard, be cut off from her expectations.

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She had spoken to Paget about it, she said, and Paget had remonstrated; Paget had said marry her to Courtenay, recognise her as presumptive heir, and add a stipulation, if necessary, that she become a Catholic; but, Catholic or no Catholic, she said, her sister should never reign in England with consent of hers; she was a heretic, a hypocrite, and a bastard, and her infamous mother had been the cause of all the calamities which had befallen the realm.

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He is but a bastard, and hath no substance; and it might stand with the Queen's Highness's pleasure there were no great account to be made whether ye pressed him to say truth by sharp punishment or promise of life."--_MS.

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In all books, half-titles or bastard titles, as they are called, should be bound in, as they are a part of the book.

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[3] Possibly the title was _Nigromanser_, from _niger_, black, and _manser_, a bastard.

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The depths of uselessness to which this infamous practice reduced monastic establishments may be inferred, when it is remembered that before the XVIII century the famous Abbey of La Baume had had thirteen Commendatory Abbots, and that the bastards of Louis XIV were Commendatory Priors in their infancy.

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With the view of exercising a pressure on its deliberations, Francis now commissioned his uncle, the Bastard of Savoy, to be present at the sessions.

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Unawed by the presence of the Bastard of Savoy, they refused to concede the registration of the concordat, and declared that they must continue to observe the Pragmatic Sanction, endorsed, as that ordinance had been, by the representatives of the entire nation.

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i.; Daniel, _ubi supra_; Vicomte de Bastard-D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i.

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Bastard d'Estang, Les parlements de France, i.

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[Footnote 183: For a description of the punishment, see Bastard d'Estang, Les parlements de France.]

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For the nature of the penalty, see Bastard D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i.

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In October he sent to the court of Spain Pierre, the Bastard of Navarre, who obtained the promise of an equivalent for Navarre, but was unable to secure any decided answer to his request for the island of Sardinia.

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For instance, rudimentary mammæ are very general in the males of mammals: I presume that the "bastard-wing" in birds may be safely considered as a digit in a rudimentary state: in very many snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in other snakes there are rudiments of the pelvis and hind limbs.

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Here are a few lines of the old French version: "Laquele jadsi, quant fu pucele, Ama un conte dangleterre, Brictrich Mau le oi nomer Apres le rois ki fu riche ber; A lui la pucele enuera messager Pur sa amour a lui procurer; Meis Brictrich Maude refusa, Dune ele m'lt se coruca, Hastivement mer passa E a Willam bastard se maria.

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To him the maiden sent a messenger To obtain his love; But Brihtric refused Matilda, Whereat she waxed very angry, Hastily passed over the sea And married William the bastard."

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"Man to man, you bastard!" he said in a flame-filled roar.

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Now Arnulf was a Carolingian, of bastard blood indeed, but nevertheless under the "Holy Roman Empire" obsession, and therefore convinced of the German right to round up all Christian countries into that Empire.

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Now, my pupil, if this breakfast would, which it could not fail to do, raise the bastard appetite of your close-curtained, feather-bedded coal-smoked, snivelling in-dweller of the city, judge of the influence it must exercise over a child of ocean, who inhales the breath of heaven freshly as generated beneath the blue sky that vaults his watery world, pure, uncorrupted, untainted by touch of anything more earthly.

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In short, bastards of the friars are to be found everywhere in the Islands.

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In September, 1887, a Madrid periodical, _Correo de España_, stated that the bastard Philippine 50-cent pieces were rejected in Madrid even by money-changers.

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They speak a bastard Spanish among themselves; they are obliged to know Turkish, Greek, and a little Armenian, and many of them speak French and Italian intelligibly.

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"There are points of view in which this traffic wears a more cheering aspect; for any one comparing the puny Portuguese or the bastard Brazilian with the athletic negro, cannot but allow that the ordinary changes and chances of time will place this fine country in the hands of the latter race.

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Now for the Seruice-trée, hée is not at all to be grafted, but set in this wise: take of the bastard cyons such as be somewhat bigger then a mans thumbe, and cutting away the branches thereof, set it in a fine loose moulde, at least a foote déepe, and it will prosper exceedingly, yet the true nature of this trée is not to be remoued, and therefore it is conuenient that it be planted where it should euer continue: in like manner to the Seruice-tree, so you shall plant the bastard cyons of the Medlar-trée either in March or October, and at the waine of the moone.

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_Comp._ Why thou white Bastard-breeder; Is not this Woman here the Mother?

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Will entail property go to a _bastard_, _legitimated before the Union_ under the great seal (by the law of Scotland)?

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If Don Rafael is ready to meet me, knife in hand, in support of my cause, why, all I have to say is, that I am ready for him and his bastard to boot!"

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These three have robb’d me; and this demi-devil- For he’s a bastard one-had plotted with them To take my life.

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That’s as much as to say, bastard virtues; that, indeed, know not their fathers, and therefore have no names.

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Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.

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Ere he 110 would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.

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’Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed, And let her read it in thy looks at board: Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed; 20 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

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If an Isthmian canal be finally constructed, Senator Morgan must be accorded a large share of the credit; and his name will go down as the father of it, even though he himself affirmed in debate in the Senate one day, after the Panama route had been selected, that he would not be "the father of such a bastard."

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It was the history of Dunois, the celebrated bastard of France, who prays in his youth that he may prove the bravest of the brave, and be rewarded with the fairest of the fair.

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"Ay, ay, wan at a time, McBride; I'll be feenishing the stickin' o' this pig before I will start on you, and you can be countin' your bastards again," and with that he whipped round on Dan like an eel with his dirk hand high.

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"Have I to live to see one of my name a coward--a bastard and a coward?"

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The snow was falling in big wet flakes, and the fight went on, neither giving an inch, and then from behind came a thin voice-- "The McBrides are at it, hammer and tongs--the Laird and the bastard, te-he," cried Dol Beag from the dark.

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"Kate will be meaning Dan McBride's bastard," says Dol Beag, and his hand shook a little on the hook.

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Laird and leddies and bastards, the whole clamjamfry.

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"McBride, Dan McBride, McBride, Dan McBride, look at the bonny bastard; look at your bonny bastard."

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Dunois, the Bastard of Orleans, the lover of Joanna, is a blunt, frank, sagacious soldier, and well described.

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Often has my mistress, for some instance of forgetfulness, thrown me from one side of the kitchen to the other, knocked my head against the wall, spit in my face, with various refinements on barbarity that I forbear to enumerate, though they were all acted over again by the servant, with additional insults, to which the appellation of _bastard_, was commonly added, with taunts or sneers.

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I know not why I felt a mixed sensation of despair and tenderness, excepting that, ever called a bastard, a bastard appeared to me an object of the greatest compassion in creation.

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Fate dragged me through the very kennels of society; I was still a slave, a bastard, a common property.

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The constable of France, the Duke de Richemont, and the Bastard of Orleans, led them on; those troops that had been shut out of the Bastille, tried to make their way up the Rue St Denis, to the northern gateway, and so to escape on the road to Beauvais and England but the inhabitants stretched chains across the street, and men, women, and children, showered down upon them from the windows, chairs, tables, logs of wood, stones, and even boiling water; while others rushed in from behind and from the side streets, with arms in their hands, and the massacre of all the English fugitives ensued.

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The bastard inherits, so the entire tragedy was in vain.

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Arrogance does not become a bastard.

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_See_ Gammon Bleaters, lambs, sheep Bleats, a sheep stealer Bleak mot, a fair girl Bleeder, a crammer, a lie Blind, to, to cheat under a pretence Blind harpers, itinerant vagabonds with harps Blinker, a one-eyed horse Block, jeminy, pipkin, head Block houses, prisons Blow out, a belly full, an extraordinary meal Blow a cloud, smoking a pipe Blow the gab, to split, to expose, inform Blow, to split, tell, expose Blow me tight, a sort of burlesque oath; as, If I don't I'm jigger'd, &c. Blowings, prostitutes Blue ruin, gin Blue devils, blues, low spirits, horror struck Blue pigeon filers, or flyers, thieves who steal lead from the tops of houses and churches Blubber, to whine, to cry Bluff, to bustle, look big Bluffer, an impudent imposing fellow of an inn-keeper Blunderbuss, a stupid ignorant fellow Blunt, tip, rag, money Boarding school, a house of correction, or prison Bob, a shilling Bob, a shoplifter's assistant Bob-stick, a hog, a shilling Bobtail, a lewd woman, or prostitute Bobbery, a disturbance, a row Bobbish, tol lol, pretty well in health Body bag, a shirt Body snatchers, bailiffs, police officers Boggy, kiddy, covey Bog trotters, lower orders of Irishmen Bogey, old Nick, the devil Bolt the moon, to cheat the landlord by taking the goods away in the night, without paying the rent Bolt, cut, go, make yourself scarce Bolted, hopped the twig, shuffled, gone Bone, to steal Bone box, the mouth Bonesetter, a hackney coach Bonnetter, a thump on the hat Bon vivant, a choice spirit, a jolly dog Booth, a place for harbouring thieves Booked, in for it, dished Booze, drink Boozy, drunk Boozing ken, a lush crib, a sluicery, alehouse Bore, a tedious story, or a vexatious circumstance Bordell, a bawdyken, house of ill fame Bottle-head stupid, void of sense Bought, anything that's dearly paid for Bounce, to lie, to swagger Bounceable, proud, saucy Bower, the, Newgate Bowsprit, cork snorter, the nose Bow wow mutton, cag mag, dog's flesh, bad ill looking meat Bow wow broth, broth made of stinking meat Bow mam, a thief Box o'dominos, mouth and teeth Box of ivory, the teeth Box Harry, to go without victuals Boxed, locked up Boxing a Charley, upsetting a watchman in his box Brads, money Brass, impudence Bracket face, devilish ugly Bravoes, bullies Bread basket, the stomach Breaking shins, borrowing money Breeze, kicking up a, exciting a disturbance Brisket beater, a Roman Catholic Brick, a loaf Broads, cards Brogue, Irish accent Broom, go, cut, be gone Browns, copper coin Brown Bess, a soldier's firelock Brown suit, no go Brown gater droppings, heavy wet, heavy brown, beer Brush, or buy a brush, be off, make yourself scarce Brusher, a full glass Brushed off, run away Bub, guzzle, drink Bubble, to cheat, defraud Bub, rum, good liquor Bub, queer, bad liquor Buff, to, to swear falsely, to perjure Buffer, a perjurer Buffer napper, dog stealer Bug, to damage Buggaboes, sheriff's officers Buggy, a one-horse chaise Bugging, money taken by bailiffs not to arrest a person Bull, a blunder Bull, crown piece Bull, half a crown piece Bull dogs, pistols Bulk, a fellow that attends a pickpocket, to receive stolen goods Bully, a cowardly blustering fellow, pretended husband to a bawd or prostitute Bully rocks, impudent villains kept to preserve order in houses of ill fame Bully traps, pretended constables called to frighten the unwary and extort money Bum, a bailiff Bum'd, arrested Bunce of dog's meat, a squalling child in arms Bunce of fives, the closed hand, the fist Bunch of onions, chain and seals Bunter, a low-life woman Buntlings, petticoats Bung-eyed, drunk, tipsy Burning the ken, vagabonds residing in an alehouse, and leaving it without paying the reckoning Buss, a kiss Bustle, ready money Buster or burster, a loaf of bread Button, a bad shilling Buttering up, praising, flattering Buttock and file, pickpocket Buzman, a pickpocket Buz, a pickpocket Bye-blow, a bastard C. Cabbage, tailors' perquisites Cadger, a beggar, a scranning cove, a mean sort of a thief Cag mag, stinking or bad meat Cake, an easy stupid fellow Camesa, a shirt or shift Canary bird, the inmate of a prison Cank, dumb, silent Cannister, _see_ Block Cant, mock religion, language of methodists Canter gloak, a parson, a liar Canting, language of thieves gypsies, beggars, &c. Canting crew, impostors who go about preaching, methodists, &c. Canticle, a parish clerk Cap, to, to out do, to beat Caper merchant, a dancing master Captain tober, first rate highwayman Captain, head of a gang, a bully Captain Flashman, a blustering fellow, a coward Captain queer Nabs, a dirty fellow without shoes Captain Sharp, a cheat, a bully Caravan, great quantity of money Carrion case, shirt and shift Carrion hunters, undertakers Castor, a tile, a hat Cass, cheese Cast your skin, strip naked Cat, a drunken, fighting prostitute Cat's meat, the constitution, the body Cat's meat shop, an eating house Catastrophe, behind, seat of honour Catchpole, bailiff Catgut scraper, a violin player Cavil, to jaw, quarrel Cavon, an old wig, or jasey Chimmy, a shift Chaff, irritating, or ironical language, to banter Chaffer, the mouth Chaffing crib, a drinking room where bantering is carried on Chalk, advantage Chalks, the legs Chant, a flash song Chancery, head in, said in fighting, of him whose head is held fast under the arm of his antagonist, and gets punished with little chance of extricating himself, unless he floors his man Charley, a watchman Charm, picklock Chats, lice Chates, the gallows Chaw-bacons, countrymen, bumpkins Cheeks, an imaginary person; nobody; as, who does that belong to?

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Planket, concealed Pockets, to let, empty pockets, no money Point non plus, neither money nor credit Poke fun, to chaff, joke Poke, a bag, or sack Poker, a sword Poney, money, £50 Pop, to pledge or pawn Poplers, mess of pottage Poppers, pistols Potato, drop it like a, to drop any thing suddenly Potato trap, the mouth Potato, red hot, take a, a word by way of silencing a person, a word of contempt Pot scum, bad or stinking dripping Pothooks and hangers, short hand characters P's & Q's mind your, mind what you're at Poundage cove, a fellow who receives poundage for procuring customers for damaged goods Prad, a horse Prancers, horses Prate, roast, a loquacious fellow Pratt, buttocks Pricking in the wicker for a dolphin, stealing bread from a baker's basket Prigs, thieves, pickpockets Prime twig, high condition Prog, victuals Prog, rum, good victuals Prog, queer, bad victuals Property, an easy fellow, a tool made use of to serve any purpose, a cat's paw Provender, a person from whom any money is taken on the high road Pudding house, the workhouse Pull, having the advantage over an adversary Pull out, come it strong Punch, a blow Punish, to beat in fighting Punisher, one who beats soundly Pupil's straits, school tuition Purgatory, trouble, perplexity Purl, royal, ale and gin made warm Purse, a sack Put, a country fellow, silly, foolish Putty and soap, bread & cheese Q. Quarroms, a body Queer, base, doubtful, good for nothing, bad Queer bit makers, coiners Queer buffer, sharp inn keeper Queer street, to be in, in a quandary Queer cove, a rogue, villain Queer ogles, squinting eyes Queer patter, foreign talk Queer rotar, a bad ill looking coach Queer rag, ill-looking money, base coin Queer blowing, ugly wench Queer gill, suspicious fellow Queer plungers, fellows who pretended to be drowned Queer cole makers, coiners of bad money Queer lap, bad liquor Queer beak, strict justice, upright judge Queer rag, bad farthing Queer bit, counterfeit money Queer lully, deformed child Queer tats, false dice Queer vinegar, worn out woman's cloak Queer belch, sour beer Queer cove, a turnkey Queer bid, insolvent sharpers who make a practice of billing persons arrested Queer cat lap, bad tea Queer chum, a suspicious companion Queer pops, bad pistols Queer put, an ill-looking foolish fellow Queer thimble, good for nothing watch Queer hen, a bad woman Quota, whack, share Quod cull, a gaol keeper Quail pipe, woman's tongue Queer prad, broken knee'd horse Queer lambs, bad dice Queer Nantz, bad brandy Queer nicks, breeches worn out Queer dogen, rusty sword Queer buffer, a cur Queer harmen beak, a strict beadle Queer gum, outlandish talk Queer glim, a bad light Queer ken, a gentleman's house without the furniture Queer doxy, a clumsy woman Queer booze, bad beer Queer amen curler, a drunken parish clerk Qui tam, a shark, lawyer Qui vive, on the alert, in expectation Quid, a goldfinch, sovereign Quiz, a queer one, a gig, an aboriginal Quod, prison R. Radical, Hunt's breakfast powder, roasted corn Rag, money; I've no rag, meaning I've no notes Rag, blow up, rap out, scold Rainbow, a tailor's pattern book Rainbows, gay young bucks Rain napper, an umbrella Rap, I'm not worth a rap, I've got no money Rap, give evidence, take false oath Rap out, to swear, blow up, be in a passion Rat, drunken man or woman taken in custody for breaking the lamps Rattling cove, a hackney coach man Rattling gloak, a simple easy fellow Rattling mumpers, beggars who ply coaches Ready, money Reader, a pocket-book Red rag, the tongue Red rag, give your, a holiday, hold your tongue Red tape, Cognac, brandy Regular, in proper course Regulars, persons thus called from their leaving parties of pleasure at eleven or twelve o'clock at night, to the no small discomforture of many an out-and-outer Regent, half a sovereign Resurrection men, fellows who steal dead bodies from the church yard for the surgeons Rhino, grease, money Ribbon, money Ridge, gold outside of a watch or other article Ridge cove, a wealthy goldsmith Riff raff, black beetles, the lower order of people Rig, fun, game, diversion Rig out, a suit of clothes Rig conoblin, cutting the string of large coals hanging at the door of coal sheds Rigging, clothing Right and fly, complete Ring, to exchange one article for another Rise, a, a disturbance Rivertick, tradesman's books Rivits, money Roger, a portmanteau Rooled up, put in a spunging house Romoners, fellows pretending to be acquainted with the occult sciences, fortune tellers Rome ville, London Rookery, an ill furnished house Roses, nobility Rotan, a coach Rum glimmer, head of the link boy Rum bodick, dirty shabby fellow Rum beak, sensible justice Rum doxy, fine made wench Rum drawers, silk stockings Rum gloak, well dressed man Rum Nantz, good brandy Rum ghelt, or rum cole, new money Rum squeeze, wine or other liquor given to fiddlers Rum prancer, fine horse Rum rufe peck, Westphalia ham Rum prad, a highwayman's horse Rum duke, queer old fellow, rich man Rum gill, a man who appears to have plenty of money Rum rush, a number of villains rushing into a house in order to rob it Rum gutters, cape wine Rum quid, good guinea Rum chaunt, good song Rum booze, good wine, or any liquor Rum buffer, valuable dog Rum cly, a full pocket Rum feeder, large silver table spoon Rum gaggers, cheats who tell wonderful stories of their sufferings at sea, in order to obtain money Rot gut, swankey, small beer Row, disturbance, 'and in the ken to breed a row' Roysters, noisy, turbulent fellows, rude vile singers Roundyken, the watchhouse Rumpus, a scuffle Rub, an obstacle in the way, to run away, to make off Rub out, when its dry, all right when its forgotten Ruffman, any person who handles a thief roughly; the wood, hedges Rugg, all right and safe Rug carrier, an ensign Rum blowing, a handsome girl Rum hopper, a waiter at a tavern Rum mot, a woman of the town Rum bob, a shop till Rum peepers, fine looking glasses, or bright eyes Rum speaker, good booty Rum job or rum dagen, a handsome sword Rum quids, guineas Rum, pad, the high road Rum maundy, fellows who counterfeit the fool, going about the streets in order to obtain charity Rum kicks, breeches Rum file, or rum diver, a female pickpocket Rum dropper, a vintner Rum cove, good natured landlord Rum fun, sharp trick Rum bung, full purse Rum bow, rope stolen from any of the king's dock-yards Rum clout, handkerchief Rum bluffer, a jolly host Rum bleating cheat, a fat sheep Rum back, good natured Irishman Rum barking irons, prime pistols Rum dumber, good natured prince of the canting crew Rum quod cull, a gaoler Rum, or monogin, good, the most valuable of any thing jewels, diamonds Rum'un, a trump, a good fellow Rum ti tam with the chill off, good, slab up, the tippy, excellent Ryder, a cloak S. Sack, a pocket Sack, to, to take up Sam, a foolish fellow, an idiot Sam, to stand, to pay for all Sangaree, rack punch Sans prisado, a person who comes into company without any money Saving one's bacon, to escape with a whole skin, to evade any accident Seedy, poor, miserable looking without money Scamp, a thief Setter, persons using the haunts of thieves in order to give information for the reward Seven-pence, to stand, to suffer seven years transportation Sew up the sees, to give a person two black eyes Scandal broth, tea Scamp foot, a street robber Scent box, the nose School butter, whipping Scot, a savage person Scotch fiddle, itch Scottish, savage, wild, chagrined Score, a debt, fine Scout, a watchman or beadle Screwbado, a dirty fellow, insignificant Scroof, to go about living with friends at their expense Scran, victuals Scrap, a villainous scheme Screw, a miser Screw loose, a quarrel between two individuals, something wrong in a man's affairs Screen, a pound note Sharps, persons ready to take you in on all occasions Shake a toe, to dance Shark, a lawyer Shade, nice to a, very particular She lion, a shilling Shell, to contribute, club Sherry, run away, be gone Sheriff's bail, an execution Shindy, a regular row, a general quarrel Shiners, guineas Shirk, to cut, to skulk Shop, a gaol Shop lobber, a dressed up silly coxcomb of a shopman, a powdered fop Shopped, imprisoned Shoot, to go skulking about Shooting the cat, vomiting Shove, crowd, push Shove the tumbler, whipped at the cart's tail Shove in the mouth, a glass of gin Shoving the moon, moving goods by moonlight Shoulder knot, a bailiff Shuffle, go, morriss, begone Slum, gammon, sham Shy cock, a person afraid of a bailiff Sigster, a nap, after dinner, a short sleep Sidle, come close to Sighers, _See_ Groaners Sight, take a, a manner of expressing contempt or ridicule by putting the thumb to the nose, with the fingers straight up in the air Sight, a lot, a great many, a great deal Sinkers, old stockings that have sunk the small parts into the heel Sipper, a tea spoon Six and eight pence, a lawyer Sink hole, the throat Skewer, a sword Skin, a purse Skinners, villains who steal children; kidnappers who entrap unwary men to enlist for soldiers Sky parlour, a garret, or first floor next the sky Slang, flash language, patter Slanged, ironed on one leg Slap bang, victuals sold at a cook shop Slate, a sheet Sling tale and galena, fowl and pickled pork Slipped cove, got away Slogg, to thump hard Slogger, a miller, a boxer Sluicery, a gin shop Sluiced their gobs, drank heartily Sluice, wet, moisten Slubber, a heavy stupid fellow Sly, contraband Smack the bit, share the booty Smart blunt, forfeit money Smart, regular, up, awake Smashing cove, housebreaker Smash, to break, strike, also bad coin Smash, a thigh of mutton and, leg of mutton, turnips, and capers Smasher, passer of bad money Smell, half a guinea Smell a rat, to surmise something Smeller, the nose Smiter, the arm Smicket, a shift Smug, steal, nibble Shaffle, highwayman Sneak, on the morning, sneaking down in the kitchen, &c., just as the servants are up, and purloining any small articles, commonly practised by cadgers Sneezer, the nose Snitch, to turn, to nose, to tell tales, to turn sneak Snorter, the nose Snooze, to sleep, doze Snoozing ken, a sleeping room Snow ball, a black man Snuffle, the nose Snuge, thief under a bed Solomon, the mass Some tune, a large amount Something short, a glass of liquor Soul driver, methodist parson South sea mountain, gin Speck, a bad, a bad undertaking Specks, barnacles, spectacles Spicer, footpad, robber Spicer, high, highwayman Spike hotel, the Fleet, or King's Bench Spilt, overturned in a carriage Spittleonian, yellow handkerchief Spoke with, to rob Spoke to, he's taken by the officers, cast for death Spooney, a foolish fellow Spoil, to bruise, injure Spree, a lark, fun Spurs, diggers Spunge, to eat and drink at another's expense Squail, a dram Squeaker, a cross child, also a pot boy Squeezer, a drop at Newgate Stach, to conceal a robbery Stool, help, assistance Staller, an accomplice in picking of pockets by holding up the arms of persons Stam fish, to cant Stand the racket, treat, pay for all Stand the nonsense, pay the money, stand treat Stand still, a table Stale whimper, a bastard Stall, to make a stand, to crowd Stag, an accomplice who has turned king's evidence Stagged, discovered Staller, an accomplice Stalling ken, broker's shop, or that of a person receiving stolen goods Stampers, feet, shoes, stairs Stark naked, gin Star-gazers, prostitutes who frequent hedge rows Stephen, money Stern, the, the goat, behind, what we sit upon Stifle a squeaker, to murder a child Sticks, goods, chattels Stiffner, a letter Stick fans, gloves Sticks, pistols Stone pitcher, Newgate Stoop, the pillory Stow it, drop it, be quiet Stow your whid, be silent Stranger, a guinea Strap, mallet, trust Strammel, straw Stretching, hanging Straw chipper, a straw bonnet maker Strike, a guinea Strings of onions, the lower orders of society String, to, to impose on a person's belief by some joke or lie Strike me dead, small beer Strummer faker, hair dresser Stumps, the feet or legs Sucked, devilish drunk Suit of cover me properly, suit of fashionable clothes Sugar, cock your leg and cry, a way of expressing triumph or joy, by standing on one leg, and shaking the other up hooting 'sugar' loudly Sufferer, a sovereign, also a tailor Swaddy, a lobster, soldier Swaddler, a pitiful fellow, a methodist preacher who preaches on the high road, when a number of people are assembled, his accomplices pick their pockets Swag, a lot, much Swallow, the throat Swankey swipes, table beer Sweeteners, guinea droppers Swell out of luck, a decayed fop or dandy Swinger, one leg and a, a sound leg and a lame one Swig, liquor of any kind Swigs men, thieves who travel the country under colour of buying old clothes Swindling gloak, a cheat T. Tackle, good clothes, also a mistress Tag rag and bobtail, extremes of low life Tail, a sword Tallymen, persons who let out clothes to saloon cyprians Tamarhoo, a hackney coachman, so called from the song of 'Tamarhoo; or The Devil and the Hackney Coachman' Tanner, sixpence Tape, gin Tat, rum, good dice Tatt, queer, bad dice Tatt men, fellows who get their living by attending the gaming tables and playing at dice Tater trap, the mummer, mouth Tatty tog, a gaming cloth Tattler, watch or clock Tea-pot, a negro Teaser, sixpence Teazer of catgut, a fiddler Tears of the tankard, drops of liquor Teaze, to whip at the cart's tail That's the ticket, just the thing as it ought to be That dab's in quod, the rogue's in prison Thimble, a watch Three sheets in the wind, three parts drunk Throw the hatchet, to, to tell a marvellous story, or a lie, and swear it's true Thums, three pence Tie, equal Tib of the buttery, goose Tibby, one on your, I owe you one Ticker, a watch Tidy, pretty good Timber, matches Timber merchant, a match dealer Time o' day, quite right, the thing Tinker, sixpence Tip, money Tip, to give Tip your rags a gallop, to bolt, run away Tip street, to be in, to have plenty of money Tippy, the, just the thing, as it ought to be Tip top, the highest, best Tits, horses Title-page, the face Tizzy, sixpence To nab a kid, to steal a child To sing small, to draw the horns in, to be humbled To mill a cheating bleat, to kill a sheep To diamond a horse, to put a stone under the shoe to make it appear lame Toddle, to walk Toddlers, legs Tog and kicks, breeches and coat Togged, dressed Togman, a cloak Togs, clothes Tol lol, pretty well in health Tolo bon rig, persons who go about the country telling fortunes by signs, pretending to be deaf and dumb Tolobon, the tongue Tombstones, teeth Tonic, a halfpenny Tooth pickers, Irish watchmen's shillalies Topper, a hat Topping, hanging Topping cove, hangman Touted, to be followed, or pursued Touch, to arrest Tout, to look out sharp, to guard Tow street, in, said of a person who is being misled or decoyed Towe, clipt money Town toddlers, silly fellows taken in by sharpers at play Town tabby, a dowager of quality Track, to go Traps, constables or thief takers Transporter, the mouth Tramp, to wander as a beggar Translators, sellers of old boots and shoes Trib, a prison Trine, to hang Trine, the new drop Trotters, the legs Trooper, a blowing, prostitute Trooper, half a crown Trump, a good one, a jolly fellow Trulls, the lowest order of prostitutes, followers of soldiers Truck, stealing money under pretence of changing Tuck, victuals Tuck out, a good meal, a bellyfull Tuck up fair, Newgate at a hanging time Tucked up, hanged; married Tumbler, a cart Turn-up, a casual set-to, a fight Tulips of the goes, the highest order of fashionables Tarter, a queer customer, a powerful enemy Turnip, a watch Turkey merchant, driver of turkeys Twelver, a shilling Twaddlers, pease Twig, to see, observe Twinklers, the eyes Twirlers, hawkers of men's and women's clothes Twittoe, two Tykes, dogs Tyke boys, dog owners Tyro, a yokel, a novitiate U.

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First among the many decisions in which the Archbishop had prostituted justice to Henry's will stood that by which he had annulled the king's marriage with Catharine and declared Mary a bastard.

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The Earl of Morton, the head of the house of Douglas, the Earl of Argyle, the greatest chieftain of the west, and above all a bastard son of the late king, Lord James Stuart, who bore as yet the title of prior of St. Andrews, but who was to be better known afterwards as the Earl of Murray, placed themselves at the head of the movement.

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In his "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women" Knox denounced Mary as a Jezebel, a traitress, and a bastard.

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These, as they appeared on the soil of Italy, were the bastard children of quasi-religious thought.

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In a sonnet addressed about 1596 to his friend, Sir Anthony Cooke (the patron of Drayton's 'Idea'), he inveighed against the 'bastard sonnets' which 'base rhymers' 'daily' begot 'to their own shames and poetry's disgrace.'

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To 1595 may best be referred the series of nine 'Gullinge sonnets,' or parodies, which Sir John Davies wrote and circulated in manuscript, in order to put to shame what he regarded as 'the bastard sonnets' in vogue.

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It is certain that she strongly objected to his being compared with Perkin Warbeck, or called a bastard.

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Philip of Orleans told Horace Walpole frankly that there never was the slightest idea of giving such a dukedom, and added that the dignity of France would be compromised if such a concession were made in order to enable the King of England "to marry his bastard daughter"--so the Duke put it--into the French _noblesse_.

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As a friend of the Queen said at the time, if ever the Crown came to be fought for again, the only question could be whether the people would rather have the Whig bastard or the Tory bastard.

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His life has hitherto been passed in obscurity and neglect, in miserable poverty, surrounded by a numerous progeny of bastards, without consideration or friends, and he was ridiculous from his grotesque ways and little, meddling curiosity."

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_Stral._ There is or was a bastard, Whom the old man--the grandsire (as old age 400 Is ever doting) took to warm his bosom, As it went chilly downward to the grave: But the imp stands not in my path--he has fled, No one knows whither; and if he had not, His claims alone were too contemptible To stand.--Why do you smile?

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Heroes and chiefs, the flower of Adam's bastards!

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These had united with the French fleet, consisting of 100 tall ships, and commanded by the Bastard of Bourbon.

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