It was like tearing through a maze of diamond-glittering spiders' webs to say good-bye and escape, for at each movement Mrs. Hilbery remembered something further about the Villainies of picture-framers or the delights of poetry, and at one time it seemed to the young man that he would be hypnotized into doing what she pretended to want him to do, for he could not suppose that she attached any value whatever to his presence.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He voluntarily of himselfe said, that hee had lived long enough to do so many Villainies as hee had done; and withal told us, that hee had layne with about forty men's wives, what in England, what in Scotland; and that hee had killed seven Englishmen with his own hands, cruelly murthering them: that hee had spent his whole time in whoreing, drinking, stealing, and taking deep revenge for slight offences.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
You can imagine the scene-the sympathetic court-the recital of your Villainies-the story of my indignities.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah