He has for several years been playing snarling caitiffs in the wave of crime plays.
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At once I understood and was certain, that this was the sect of the caitiffs displeasing unto God, and unto his enemies.
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According to the clear meaning of the word, the holy war for the religion against the infidels and caitiffs is somewhat like a struggle against one's own desires.
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Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs, whom the Minotaur shall as certainly eat up for breakfast as I will eat a partridge for my supper.
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He dismissed Fan while saying "Jing has with him but a few hundred rebellious caitiffs. What can they do?"Scott Pearce (2000) Who, And What, was Hou Jing?, Early Medieval China, 2000:1, 49-73, DOI: 10.1179/152991000788196400 Soon, Hou was suspicious that he would be betrayed, and he forged a letter from Gao Cheng, offering to trade Xiao Yuanming for Hou.
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Despite failing to defeat the rebels, Dong's unit was the only one which escaped unscathed. Dong Zhuo was given the title General Who Smashes the Caitiffs in 185, and General of the Van in 188. He was promoted to be the Governor of Bing Province, but he refused to take up his new post as he was unwilling to leave his men. Realizing that the power of the Han dynasty was waning, Dong chose to settle in Liang Province and build up his power.
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Assigned under him were Dong Zhuo, the new General Who Routs the Caitiffs (); and Zhou Shen (), the General Who Terrifies Criminals (), among others. Zhang's army, more than a hundred thousand in men and horses, traveled to Meiyang (美陽; west of present- day Wugong) and set camp there. Bian Zhang and Han Sui also brought their men to Meiyang to do battle, but the battles were inconclusive and Zhang Wen's army could not gain advantage for some time. Things changed during the eleventh month, when a shooting star appeared to fall on the rebel camp and shook the rebels' resolve.
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In 190, regional warlords and officials from across China formed a coalition against Chancellor of State Dong Zhuo, who controlled state power and held Emperor Xian hostage. Yuan Shao was elected leader of the alliance. To participate in the campaign against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian led an army north to join Yuan Shu, who was part of the coalition. Yuan Shu appointed Sun Jian as Acting General Who Smashes the Caitiffs (破虜將軍) and Inspector of Yu Province (豫州刺史), and sent him to attack Dong Zhuo at the capital city of Luoyang.
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Wilkinson (2000: 725-726) lists three commonly used words: nu 奴 "slave" (e.g., Xiongnu 匈奴 "fierce slaves; Xiongnu people"), gui 鬼 "devil; ghost" (guilao or Cantonese Gweilo 鬼佬 "devil men; Western barbarians"), and lu 虜 "captive; caitiff" (Suolu 索虜 "unkempt caitiffs; Tuoba people", now officially written 拓拔 "develop pull"). Unlike official Chinese language reforms, Wilkinson (2000: 730) notes, "Unofficially and not infrequently graphic pejoratives were added or substituted" in loanword transcriptions, as when Falanxi 法蘭西 (with lan 蘭 "orchid; moral excellence") "France" was written Falangxi 法狼西 (with lang 狼 "wolf").
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However, his tyrannical ways incurred the wrath of many and in the following year, warlords from eastern China formed a coalition against him. Sun Jian also raised an army and joined Yuan Shu, one of the leaders of the coalition at Luyang (魯陽; present-day Lushan County, Henan). On his way, he killed Inspector of Jing Province Wang Rui and Administrator of Nanyang Zhang Zi. Yuan Shu appointed Sun Jian as General Who Destroys Barbarians (破虜將軍, also translated as "General Who Smashes the Caitiffs") and Inspector of Yu Province (). Sun Jian then began training and preparing his troops at Luyang.
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Near the village of Logierait in Perthshire is the hollow ` ash tree of the Boat of Logierait, which, 63 feet in height and 40 in girth at 3 feet from the ground, is said to have been ` the dool tree of the district, on which caitiffs and robbers were formerly executed, and their bodies left hanging till they dropped and lay around unburied. 'The Logierait Dule-tree. An example may still exist at Bargany in South Ayrshire where a European ash (Fraxinus excelsior), served the role of the baronial dule tree. An example is said to survive at Douglas Castle, located around 1 km north-east of the village of Douglas, South Lanarkshire aka Castle Dangerous of Sir Walter Scott's novel of that name.
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El trato de Argel (Life in Algiers, 1580), Los baños de Argel (The Bagnios of Algiers, 1615), El gallardo español (The Gallard Spaniard, 1615) and La gran sultana (The Great Sultana, 1615) were four comedies by Miguel de Cervantes about the life of the galley slaves, called "caitiffs". Cervantes himself had been imprisoned in Algiers (1575–1580). His novel Don Quixote also features a subplot with the story of a caitiff (chapters 39-41 of the first part). A bagnio, in reference to a brothel or boarding house, is mentioned in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg as the location of a quarrel between two young Edinburgh nobleman that precedes one of them being murdered and the other arrested for the crime.
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Superstition, you see, turns them into caitiffs!" This knocked over poor Burchett so much, the transaction came to nothing"Scott, 274-275 Scott comments that Burchett: "gave himself up to historical painting on a rather large scale, just the kind of art which English taste and the R. Academy as the mediocre exponent of the same would like to crush out of existence". However the work which has attracted the most attention and praise from critics in recent decades is what appears to be his "only known landscape",So the DNB, but Howard D. Rodee: The "Dreary Landscape" as a Background for Scenes of Rural Poverty in Victorian Paintings, Art Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Summer, 1977) refers to another, also a view of the Isle of Wight: "Scene in the Isles (sic) of Wight" of 1865.
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He personally charged into the enemy lines several times and claimed many. By noon, the Yan forces were annihilated and Murong Ping fled alone to Yecheng.(猛望評師之衆，惡之，謂鄧羌曰：「今日之事，非將軍莫可以捷也。成敗之機，在斯一舉也。將軍其勉之。」羌曰：「若以司隸見與者，公無以為憂。」猛曰：「此非吾所及也。必以安定太守、萬戶侯相處。」羌不悅而退。俄而兵交，猛召羌，寢而不應。猛乃馳就，許之。於是大飲帳中，與張眊、徐成等跨馬運矛，馳入評軍，出入數四，傍若無人，攀旗斬將，殺傷甚重，戰及日中，燕師敗績。) Annals of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Volume 4 Deng Qiang's last merit in the war would be at Xindu, where he defeated Murong Huan (慕容桓). After Qin conquered Yan, he was rewarded by Fu Jian with Credential Bearer, General Who Conquers The Caitiffs, Administrator of Anding and Marquis of Zhending Commandary (真定, in modern-day Shijiazhuang, Hebei).
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