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knave

another word for jack (the playing card)
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Knave

of Hearts vowed he’d steal no more tarts. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 152]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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"Why dost thou call him knave? What is his fault?" (2.2.71,89).
She was interred within the city's cathedral under the floor of the north aisle of the knave, where her gravestone can be seen.
I enjoyed his book A Kestrel For A Knave, and when Kes was made in 1969 it became my favourite film.
The action-packed conclusion of the Starbound trilogy introduces Sofia Quinn, a con artist, and Gideon Marchant, a hacker who is also known as The Knave of Hearts.
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2.) Knave of Hearts: I stole the tarts Knave of Clubs: The Knave of hearts is lying Knave of Diamonds: The Knave of Clubs is lying Knave of Spades: The Knave of Diamonds is lying How many of the four knaves were telling the truth?
He was happy, a knave with a foolish ear; he held onto nothing proscribed in earnest.
At the University of California, Davis's ModLab, we are experimenting with these possibilities through the development of a Shakespeare videogame called Play the Knave. A Kinect-enabled game for Windows, Play the Knave offers users an immersive, embodied experience of staging a scene from a Shakespeare play.
Based on Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes, tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Caspar; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down the mines, like his older brother Jud.
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Beginning with an introduction outlining the features of Nabokov's writing that make it so well suited for adaptation, the work examines Kubrick's Lolita and Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark as well as a variety of other director's renditions of King, Queen, Knave, Despair, Mademoiselle O, An Affair of Honor, The Luzhin Defense and The Assistant Producer.
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