"Rogue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coach in the inn yard, and I and my secretary, Mr. Jardine, went into the inn. A man, not this fellow here, but another rogue, with more beard and less paunch, and more shabbily dressed, but as like him as though he were his brother, represented himself as the innkeeper, and I dealt with him for a change of horses, and ordered a bottle of wine for myself and my secretary, and ...
— He Walked Around the Horses • Henry Beam Piper
... off," said Shanty, as he entered the house, "and have left us this present. We have had need, as that young rogue said, of the horse-shoe over our door. We have been over-reached for once; that little one is stolen goods, be sure, Mr. Dymock,—some great man's child for aught we know,—the wicked woman will not call again very soon, as she promised, and what are we to do with the child? Had my poor ...
— Shanty the Blacksmith; A Tale of Other Times • Mrs. Sherwood [AKA: Mrs. Mary Martha Sherwood]
... met with nothing that can be regarded as portraiture of individual character, unless somewhat of the sort be alleged in the case of Mak the sheep-stealing rogue. The truth is, character and action, in the proper sense of the terms, were hardly thought of in the making of Miracle-Plays; the work aiming at nothing higher than a literal or mechanical reflection of facts and events; sometimes ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... rogue," observed the alferez to the curate. "He tried to run, but he was wounded in the thigh. These are the only ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... impudent rogue, very demurely; "like most people who tell their own stories, I was born of honest, ...
— Valerie • Frederick Marryat
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