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Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No men are more clever in hiding their knaveries than magicians;" and in seven or eight other places he endeavors to expose "their falsehoods, their deceptions, the uselessness of their art," and laughs at it.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

Sidi, the cannonier, again! plotting his knaveries with the two Moorish slaves of Cortes!

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery

They may take up Regnard without risking a fall; for there is little danger of being led astray by the picaresque knaveries of Scapin and Lisette.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

The unfortunate Crimea was again surrendered to the unlimited power and endless knaveries of the captain ispravniks, and of the worthy subaltern agents of the local administration.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de