caitiff

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• "Then I wash my hands of it all," cried the little self-deceiving caitiff; and he affected to have nothing to do with it.

• "The misproud and amphibious caitiff puts the monk upon me," said Richard to the Earl of Salisbury.

• The tyrant came to him, and with the poor caitiff's own whinger first struck him in the breast, and afterwards cast it at him.

• Alas that ever such a caitiff-knight as I am should have power by unhappiness to hurt the most noblest knight of the world.

• The caitiff yields quickest; the man who loves danger and adventure holds out longest.