But the dastardliness of such a trick!
"The Secret Witness"
George Gibbs
So many and such sufferings produced incredible dastardliness; and deserters escaped by night, in some cases throwing themselves down, at the risk of being killed, into the city-moat; in others getting down by help of a rope from the ramparts.
"A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI."
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot