The 6,537 occurrences of bastard
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And then, when you yourself have begotten sons, Gothic bastards infected with Roman blood, be a Roman at heart yourself, send your children forth to complete what your wife's people left undone at Aquileia--by murdering me!'
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It is for the philosophic student to trace the train of thought which underlies the magician's practice; to draw out the few simple threads of which the tangled skein is composed; to disengage the abstract principles from their concrete applications; in short, to discern the spurious science behind the bastard art.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,145 ~ ~ ~
Legitimately applied they yield science; illegitimately applied they yield magic, the bastard sister of science.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 6,050 ~ ~ ~
At Leipsic the bastards and public women used to make a straw effigy of Death every year at Mid-Lent.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,474 ~ ~ ~
He was said to have been the bastard son of Jupiter, a Cretan king.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,797 ~ ~ ~
In some districts of West Prussia the figure made out of the last sheaf is called the Bastard, and a boy is wrapt up in it.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,139 ~ ~ ~
According to one story, Lityerses was a bastard son of Midas, King of Phrygia, and dwelt at Celaenae.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 11,684 ~ ~ ~
He's got some of that bastard's money in his jeans now, I'll bet."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 11,762 ~ ~ ~
"You wouldn't be honest with your mother, you bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,773 ~ ~ ~
"Shall we rear bastards?" cried Hagen.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 83 ~ ~ ~
D'ye think I've not had enough trouble and care put upon me bringing up my own girls, let alone you and your good-for-nothing brother, without having your uncle's bastards-- CHRISTY (interrupting her with an apprehensive glance at the door by which Essie went out).
~ ~ ~ Sentence 657 ~ ~ ~
The second bastard was named Dugald Deargshuileach, "from his red eyes."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 660 ~ ~ ~
The third bastard was named Alexander, and from him descended Clann Mhurchaidh Mhoir in Ledgowan, and many of the common people who resided in the Braes of Ross.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 711 ~ ~ ~
John Macrae, who was himself a member of the Inverinate family, says that the Macraes left the Aird under the following circumstances: A dispute had arisen in the hunting field between Macrae of Clunes and a bastard son of Lovat, when a son of Macrae intervened to protect his father, and killed Fraser's son in the scuffle.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 756 ~ ~ ~
During Kintail's absence it appears that his three bastard uncles ravaged the district of Kinlochewe, for we find them insulting and troubling "Mackenzie's tenants in Kenlochewe and Kintail Macaulay, who was still Constable in Ellandonnan, not thinking it proper to leave his post, proposed Finlay Dubh Mac Gillechriost as the fittest person to be sent to St. Johnston, now Perth, and by general consent he accordingly went to inform his young master, who was then there with the rest of the King's ward children at school, of his lordship's tenants being imposed on as above, which, with Finlay's remonstrance on the subject, prevailed on Alexander, his young master, to come home, and being backed with all the assistance Finlay could command, soon brought his three bastard uncles to condign punishment."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 761 ~ ~ ~
He at that time made his acquaintance with Macdougall's daughter, whom afterwards he married, and from thence came to his own Kintail, and having his authority and right backed with the power of the people, he calls his bastard uncles before him, and removes their quarters from Kenlochewe, and gave them possessions in Glenelchaig in Kintail prescribing measures and rule for them how to behave, assuring them, though he pardoned them at that time, they should forfeit favours and be severely punished if they transgressed for the future; but after this, going to the county of Ross to their old dwelling at Kenlochewe, they turned to practice their old tricks and broke loose, so that he was forced to correct their insolency and make them shorter by the heads, and thus the people were quit of their trouble."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,172 ~ ~ ~
He was not married, but left two bastard sons - one, known as Rory Beag, by the daughter of the Baron of Moniack; and the other by the daughter of a gentleman in Cromar, of whom are descended the Sliochd Thomais in Cromar and Glenshiel, Braemar, the principal families of which were those of Dalmore and Renoway.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,284 ~ ~ ~
It is reported that Hector wished Allan out of the way, whom he thought only to stand in his way from being laird, since he was resolved not to own my Lord Lovat's daughter's children, being all bastards and gotten in adultery.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,723 ~ ~ ~
On the 5th of July in the same year, Colin gives caution of L2000 that William Ross of Priesthill, when released out of the tolbooth of Edinburgh, shall keep ward in that city till he find surety for the entrance of himself and his bastard son, John Ross and others, to appear before the justice to answer for certain crimes specified in letters raised against him by David Munro of Nigg when required upon fifteen days' warning, and satisfy the Treasurer-depute for his escheat fallen to the King through having been put to the horn at the instance of the said David Munro.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,731 ~ ~ ~
Roderick, by all accounts, was not so immaculate in his domestic relations as one might wish, for we find him having no fewer than five bastard sons, named respectively, Tormod Uigeach, Murdoch, Neil, Donald, and Rory Og, all of whom arrived at maturity.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,746 ~ ~ ~
The bastards now quarrelled among themselves.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,787 ~ ~ ~
KENNETH MACKENZIE, FIRST LORD MACKENZIE OF KINTAIL, who began his rule amidst those domestic quarrels and dissensions in the Lewis, to which we have already introduced the reader, and which may, not inappropriately, be designated the Strife of the Bastards.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,822 ~ ~ ~
Upon the death of Old Roderick of the Lewis, Torquil Dubh succeeded him, excluding Torquil Cononach from the succession on the plea of his being a bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,824 ~ ~ ~
His two sons having been killed, and his eldest daughter, Margaret, having married Roderick Mackenzie of Coigeach, progenitor of the Cromarty family, better known as the Tutor of Kintail, Torquil Cononach threw himself into the hands of Kintail for aid against the bastards.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,343 ~ ~ ~
Acting on this advice, young Raasay, with Gillecallum Mor and twelve of their men, started for the ship, leaving word with his bastard brother, Murdoch, to get ready all the men he could, to go to their assistance in small boats as soon as the a]arm was given.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 944 ~ ~ ~
Why can't a musical thought be presented as it is born--perchance "a bastard of the slums," or a "daughter of a bishop"--and if it happens to go better later on a bass-drum (than upon a harp) get a good bass-drummer.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 675 ~ ~ ~
"Ever meet a bleedin' bastard as put the cops on a bloke, an' got 'im three months' 'ard?" he inquired again.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,213 ~ ~ ~
It was all nonsense, of course, but in that lonely wood-girt spot nonsense seemed able to rear a bastard brood of uneasiness.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,674 ~ ~ ~
BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,976 ~ ~ ~
SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,787 ~ ~ ~
(See Cunningham) BUTTERY-HATCH, half-door shutting off the buttery, where provisions and liquors were stored BUY, "he bought me," formerly the guardianship of wards could be bought BUZ, exclamation to enjoin silence BUZZARD, simpleton BY AND BY, at once BY(E), "on the __," incidentally, as of minor or secondary importance; at the side BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard CADUCEUS, Mercury's wand CALIVER, light kind of musket CALLET, woman of ill repute CALLOT, coif worn on the wigs of our judges or serjeants-at-law (Gifford) CALVERED, crimped, or sliced and pickled.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,883 ~ ~ ~
SLICK, sleek, smooth 'SLID, 'SLIGHT, 'SPRECIOUS, irreverent oaths SLIGHT, sleight, cunning, cleverness; trick SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard SLIPPERY, polished and shining SLOPS, large loose breeches SLOT, print of a stag's foot SLUR, put a slur on; chear (by sliding a die in some way) SMELT, gull, simpleton SNORLE, "perhaps snarl as Puppy is addressed" (Cunningham) SNOTTERIE, filth SNUFF, anger, resentment; "take in -," take offence at SNUFFERS, small open silver dishes for holding snuff, or receptacle for placing snuffers in (Halliwell) SOCK, shoe worn by comic actors SOD, seethe SOGGY, soaked, sodden SOIL, "take -," said of a hunted stag when he takes to the water for safety SOL, sou SOLDADOES, soldiers SOLICIT, rouse, excite to action SOOTH, flattery, cajolery SOOTHE, flatter, humour SOPHISTICATE, adulterate SORT, company, party; rank, degree SORT, suit, fit; select SOUSE, ear SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,650 ~ ~ ~
I replied, 'do you imagine the nation will suffer a bastard to govern it?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,753 ~ ~ ~
Bonaparte's principle as to the change of Ministers--Fouche--His influence with the First Consul--Fouche's dismissal--The departments of Police and Justice united under Regnier--Madame Bonaparte's regret for the dismissal of Fouche--Family scenes--Madame Louis Bonaparte's pregnancy--False and infamous reports to Josephine-- Legitimacy and a bastard--Raederer reproached by Josephine--Her visit to Ruel--Long conversation with her--Assertion at St. Helena respecting a great political fraud.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 8,839 ~ ~ ~
Under the foolish illusion of his vanity Bonaparte imagined that France was desirous of being governed even by a bastard if supposed to be a child of his,--a singular mode truly of founding a new legitimacy!
~ ~ ~ Sentence 30,976 ~ ~ ~
Cloud is as great as ever: I say their parents, because the crafty ex-Bishop, Talleyrand, foreseeing the short existence of these bastard diplomatic acts, took care to compliment the innocent Joseph Bonaparte with a share in the parentage, although they were his own exclusive offspring.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 571 ~ ~ ~
There is a bastard kind of generosity, which being extended to all men, is as fatal to society, on one hand, as the want of true generosity is on the other.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 757 ~ ~ ~
By nature they are children, and by marriage they are heirs; but by aristocracy they are bastards and orphans.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,021 ~ ~ ~
History pays but little attention to these details: it celebrates the battle-fields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the ploughed fields whereby we thrive; it knows the names of the kings' bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 141 ~ ~ ~
A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 969 ~ ~ ~
The Punch of the puppet-show is a bastard descendant of the latter, but the original type is still seen in Naples, where he wears a white costume and a black mask.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,941 ~ ~ ~
It is even likely that vigorous English would have been a better vehicle than the "soft, bastard Latin" for the forceful utterances of the operatic people.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,304 ~ ~ ~
BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 5,606 ~ ~ ~
SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,338 ~ ~ ~
Then I says, if you do, your bastard son shall swing."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,339 ~ ~ ~
"Who do you mean by her bastard son?"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,679 ~ ~ ~
One can see that he hasn't had a bastard child fathered on him by a gipsy hag.
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"Never will I consent for my bastard to marry the wench of such a contemptible fool as Potemkin!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,134 ~ ~ ~
Then innumerable triumphs of our old, bastard, half-commercial, fine-art were presently condemned, great oil paintings, done to please the half-educated middle-class, glared for a moment and were gone, Academy marbles crumbled to useful lime, a gross multitude of silly statuettes and decorative crockery, and hangings, and embroideries, and bad music, and musical instruments shared this fate.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 170 ~ ~ ~
It may not be out of place here to say that this custom continued to exist in Wales; and on its conquest Edward I. ordained, "Whereas the custom is otherwise in Wales than England concerning succession to an inheritance, inasmuch as the inheritance is partible among the heirs-male, and from time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary hath been partible, Our Lord the King will not have such custom abrogated, but willeth that inheritance shall remain partible among like heirs as it was wont to be, with this exception that bastards shall from henceforth not inherit, and also have portions with the lawful heirs; and if it shall happen that any inheritance should hereafter, upon failure of heirs-male, descend to females, the lawful heirs of their ancestors last served thereof.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,108 ~ ~ ~
To betray me more securely, to despoil me, to rob me, to give to her bastard all that lawfully appertained to me; my name, a noble name, my fortune, a princely inheritance!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,119 ~ ~ ~
I was a bastard, dear M. Tabaret, very much a bastard; Noel, son of the girl Gerdy and an unknown father!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,236 ~ ~ ~
"All the letters which follow," said he, "carry traces of the preoccupation of my father's mind on the subject of his bastard son.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,403 ~ ~ ~
Of what importance to the count would be a doubt of his paternity, had he not sacrificed his legitimate son to his bastard?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,316 ~ ~ ~
The father who has sacrificed his legitimate son for the sake of his bastard is Count Rheteau de Commarin, and the assassin of Widow Lerouge is the bastard, Viscount Albert de Commarin!"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,773 ~ ~ ~
The marchioness is sufficiently infected with aristocratic ideas to prefer a nobleman's bastard to the son of some honest tradesman; but should she refuse, we would await her death, though without desiring it."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,454 ~ ~ ~
This thought made me hate the bastard who called himself Commarin.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,496 ~ ~ ~
I felt so annoyed that, if I had been master, my wife should have come away without the little bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,517 ~ ~ ~
"She said to me, shaking her pocket full of money, 'See here, my man, we shall always have as much of this as ever we may want, and this is why: The count, who also had a legitimate child at the same time as this bastard, wishes that this one shall bear his name instead of the other; and this can be accomplished, thanks to me.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,561 ~ ~ ~
I resolved not to lose sight of the little bastard, swearing that they shouldn't change it; so I kept him all the evening on my knees, and to be all the more sure, I tied my handkerchief about his waist.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,578 ~ ~ ~
My wife undressed and got into bed with our son and the little bastard.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 7,592 ~ ~ ~
Not knowing what I was doing, I drew from my pocket a long Spanish knife, which I always carried, and seizing the cursed bastard, I thrust the blade through his arm, crying, 'This way, at least, he can't be changed without my knowing it; he is marked for life!'"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,745 ~ ~ ~
Pity, though," he added, with a sneer on his dark face, "since many a year has gone by since these walls have seen a bastard, and, as things are, that may pull them down about your ears."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,747 ~ ~ ~
But who talks of bastards in the case of Dame Cicely Harflete, widow of Sir Christopher Harflete, slain by the Abbot of Blossholme?"
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,341 ~ ~ ~
the poor babe, if ever it should be born, will be but a bastard, marked from its birth with the brand of shame."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,243 ~ ~ ~
"Sir," went on Cicely, "we have worked no sorcery, and my crime is that I will not name my child a bastard and sign away my lands and goods to yonder Abbot, the murderer of my father and perhaps of my husband.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,227 ~ ~ ~
Does bastard wound thine ear?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 4,127 ~ ~ ~
As we have seen, Balzac himself was reacted upon by it to some extent; but he yielded against his will, and the result in his case was a bastard one.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,613 ~ ~ ~
We are proscribed and put to the ban; and if we do not feel, and feeling, do not act, we are bastards to those fathers who achieved the Revolution."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,830 ~ ~ ~
Goomblegubbon, bastard or plainturkey.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 857 ~ ~ ~
CHIEF OF POLICE What right have you to stop my man, you bastard son of a quill-bearing barn-fowl?
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Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, was, wounded; the Scots, the King's body-guard, on whom fell ever the grimmest of the fighting, suffered terribly, and their leader was killed.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 263 ~ ~ ~
A few non-royal princes, such as Armagnac, or Saint-Pol, or Brittany, remain and will go down with the others; the "new men" of the day, the bastard Dunois or the Constables Du Guesclin and Clisson, grow to greater prominence; it is clear that the old feudalism is giving place to a newer order, in which the aristocracy, from the King's brothers downwards, will group themselves around the throne, and begin the process which reaches its unhappy perfection under Louis XIV.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,866 ~ ~ ~
Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, was, wounded; the Scots, the King's body-guard, on whom fell ever the grimmest of the fighting, suffered terribly, and their leader was killed.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,930 ~ ~ ~
A few non-royal princes, such as Armagnac, or Saint-Pol, or Brittany, remain and will go down with the others; the "new men" of the day, the bastard Dunois or the Constables Du Guesclin and Clisson, grow to greater prominence; it is clear that the old feudalism is giving place to a newer order, in which the aristocracy, from the King's brothers downwards, will group themselves around the throne, and begin the process which reaches its unhappy perfection under Louis XIV.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 360 ~ ~ ~
Two of the Abbe Fouquet's bastards were publicly maintained out of my revenues, and no means were left untried to hinder the farmers from relieving me, or my creditors from harassing me with vexatious and expensive lawsuits.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 2,811 ~ ~ ~
Two of the Abbe Fouquet's bastards were publicly maintained out of my revenues, and no means were left untried to hinder the farmers from relieving me, or my creditors from harassing me with vexatious and expensive lawsuits.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 295 ~ ~ ~
Montespan had instilled this into him, in order that she might get rid of all his legitimate blood connections, and might suffer none about him but her bastards; she had even carried matters so far as to seek to confine the royal favour to her offspring or her creatures.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 446 ~ ~ ~
When Montespan was dismissed, the King had all his illegitimate children in his cabinet: this continued until the arrival of the last Dauphine; she intruded herself among the bastards to their great affliction.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 760 ~ ~ ~
She helped the Ministers to rob the King; by means of the Constitution she hastened his death; she brought about my son's marriage; she wanted to place bastards upon the throne; in short, she ruined and confused everything.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 289 ~ ~ ~
He made a remonstrance against this, which was certainly effected at the instigation of the eldest bastard and his wife.--[The Duc and Duchesse du Maine.]
~ ~ ~ Sentence 295 ~ ~ ~
I believe the plot would have succeeded better if the bastard and his wife had not engaged in it, for they were extraordinarily hated at Paris.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 431 ~ ~ ~
A letter of Alberoni's to the lame bastard has been intercepted, in which is the following passage: "As soon as you declare war in France spring all your mines at once."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 496 ~ ~ ~
Can the Devil himself be worse than this bastard?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 44 ~ ~ ~
I think M. de Monmouth was much worse than the Comte de Guiche; because, although a bastard, he was the son of Madame's own brother; and this incest doubled the crime.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 125 ~ ~ ~
These bastards are of so bad a disposition that God knows who was their father.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 464 ~ ~ ~
It is therefore evident that all this proceeds from the bastards.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 477 ~ ~ ~
That old Maintenon has continued pretty tranquil until the termination of the process relating to the legitimation of the bastards.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 536 ~ ~ ~
This is the cause of those great disputes which the Princes of the blood have had with the bastards, as may be seen by their memorial.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 295 ~ ~ ~
Montespan had instilled this into him, in order that she might get rid of all his legitimate blood connections, and might suffer none about him but her bastards; she had even carried matters so far as to seek to confine the royal favour to her offspring or her creatures.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 446 ~ ~ ~
When Montespan was dismissed, the King had all his illegitimate children in his cabinet: this continued until the arrival of the last Dauphine; she intruded herself among the bastards to their great affliction.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 760 ~ ~ ~
She helped the Ministers to rob the King; by means of the Constitution she hastened his death; she brought about my son's marriage; she wanted to place bastards upon the throne; in short, she ruined and confused everything.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,234 ~ ~ ~
He made a remonstrance against this, which was certainly effected at the instigation of the eldest bastard and his wife.--[The Duc and Duchesse du Maine.]
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,240 ~ ~ ~
I believe the plot would have succeeded better if the bastard and his wife had not engaged in it, for they were extraordinarily hated at Paris.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,376 ~ ~ ~
A letter of Alberoni's to the lame bastard has been intercepted, in which is the following passage: "As soon as you declare war in France spring all your mines at once."
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,441 ~ ~ ~
Can the Devil himself be worse than this bastard?
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,989 ~ ~ ~
I think M. de Monmouth was much worse than the Comte de Guiche; because, although a bastard, he was the son of Madame's own brother; and this incest doubled the crime.
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