He saw vast opportunities in the scheme proposed by Loeb, and fell in with it, whether through a mistaken idea as to its real character or an active desire to profit nefariously time only would tell.
"Green Fancy"
George Barr McCutcheon
I sat mournfully on the counter after father left me, my head reclining pensively against a pile of ten-cent calicoes; I was thinking of my grandmother's legacy gone up in smoke-of how Belle looked when she found I had conducted her into the coal-cellar-of those tidies, cradle-quilts, bib-aprons, dolls' and ladies' fixings, which had been nefariously foisted upon me, a base advantage taken of my diffidence!
"The Blunders of a Bashful Man"
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
And yet accident-chance-fortune-or whatever you may choose to call it, interferes nefariously, at times, with a gentleman's prosperity.
"The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas"
James Fenimore Cooper