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Company officials were more worried that "the fugitive good-for-nothing [schelm] Tingbin could become for Chenggong an instrument dangerous to the company, since he has a very good knowledge of our situation on Formosa and will not hesitate to use it in order to gain Chenggong's good graces."

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

So I had got a pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid houndsfoot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man.

Chapter XXXIV 1917

And you can give yourself to any dirty verdoemte schelm of an Engelschman you please, for I will have none of you!

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Had some rascally schelm not stabbed my horse I should have swept your head off as a boy cuts thistles mit a stick. '

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Where is that _schelm_, Jantje, and why is he not feeding the fires?

The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Harry Collingwood 1886

I did but fly the falcon I had brought with me from Scotland, and that I reckoned on for bringing me into some note, at a heron near Peronne, and the rascally schelm

Quentin Durward Walter Scott 1801

Of her parents he knew nothing, except that "her father must have been a damned hundsfoot, and a schelm, for selling his own flesh and blood to Adrian Brackel;" for by such a transaction had the mountebank become possessed of his pupil.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

So I had got a pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid hounds-foot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man. '

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

So I had got a pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid hounds-foot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

So I had got a pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid hounds-foot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801