If you had the knack, Puck might do minor housework for you, quick fine needlework or butter-churning, which could be undone in a moment by his knavish tricks if you fell out of favour with him.

By your knavish trick, I was taken; I therefore ensured that you should not escape.

Lyons was a little out of my direct road, but I was determined to pass through that city in order to convince myself of a knavish trick played me by M. de Montaigu.

For, with all his knavish tricks, his hand was in all manner of dyes.

They put us through a nasty business with some nerve gas that should have been painful, but we frustrated that knavish trick pretty well.

Frustrate his knavish tricks!

In her unsentimental way she loved children, though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks.

HOWLEGLAS, Eulenspiegel, the hero of a popular German tale which relates his buffooneries and knavish tricks.

This was one of Frank's favored poses: the blunt, no-nonsense, pipe-smoking Englishman who had no time for knavish foreign tricks.