How To Use Malefactor In A Sentence
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Riversley was, that while the rest of the world ate and drank poison, the Grange lived on its own solid substance, defying malefactory Radical tricksters.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
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This raises important legal, policy, and ethical questions about a government's use of the internet to track domestic and international malefactors.
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The Lords and Commons repent, but the clergy remain impenitent, are exposed, and the malefactors brought to the scaffold.
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But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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What does it have to do with the fact that the malefactors cannot be prosecuted for car theft?
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It might be allowed that involuntary tests, including race, may be used to identify perpetrators of known acts, but not merely potential malefactors.
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The Earl of Argyle’s service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the inbringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of
Rob Roy
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Borkman a prominent example of the ninteenth century type of criminous speculator, in whom the vastness of view and the splendidly altruistic audacity present themselves as elements which render it exceedingly difficult to say how far the malefactor is morally responsible for his crime.
Henrik Ibsen
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The secret to securing your credit card information from any malefactors is to give them nothing to steal.
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Ahead of us lie the supposedly reliable computerized ID systems that can identify malefactors with long-range cameras.
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When he encounters such a withdrawal of collaboration, the theory goes, the malefactor will learn the error of his ways and become a more co-operative individual.
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Item, the foresaid marchants complaine, that certaine malefactors of Wismer of Rostok, with others of the Hans, in the yeere of our Lord 1399, wickedly and vniustly tooke one crayer pertayning vnto Iohn Lakinglich of Lenne, laden with diuers goods and marchandise pertaining vnto sundry marchants of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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Item, in the yeere of our Lord 1394. certaine malefactors of Wismer and others of the Hans vniustly tooke vpon the sea, and caried away with them a packe of woollen cloth of the foresaid Simon, worth 42. pounds, out of a certain crayer of one Thomas Fowler of Lenne being laden and bound for Dantzik in Prussia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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It might have been brought in by a thief, or by a malefactor who had followed Richie from Manhattan.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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But more recently, he has been shocked that women in sports are, as he puts it, ‘holding their own’ as malefactors in the athletic realm.
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Delightful haven to pigeon-hearted malefactors -- inconsistent criminals, who fear the puny look of mortal man, and, unabashed, stalk beneath the eternal and the killing frown of God.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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First, it was admitted in court that West's name was only included on the list of malefactors to ‘even things out‘.
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Like Ivan Lewis's eccentric proposal for striking off media malefactors, Monbiot's suggestion that being paid to write is, of itself, a faintly whiffy arrangement, one suspect enough to need confessing, is an extreme response to a real problem.
Even if you show me yours, I'm not showing you mine | Catherine Bennett
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Recovery of peculated property is now extended to the ultimate recipients as well as the original thieves — anyone convicted in the court cannot address any public meeting anywhere — men of the Latin Rights who successfully prosecute a malefactor will be rewarded with the full Roman citizenship — and there is now a recess inserted into the middle of the trial proceedings.
The First Man in Rome
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First, the malefactors would be swiftly put out of their misery and not forced, at huge expense from the taxpayer; to live on for countless years with their inner demons and tormented souls.
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And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor.
Ulysses
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In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
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Paul pleaded his privilege as a Roman citizen, by which he was exempted from all trials and punishments of this nature (v. 25): As they bound him with thongs, or leathern bands, to the whipping post, as they used to bind the vilest of malefactors in bridewell from whom they would extort a confession, he made no outcry against the injustice of their proceedings against an innocent man, but very mildly let them understand the illegality of their proceedings against him as a citizen of Rome, which he had done once before at Philippi after he had been scourged (ch.xvi. 37), but here he makes use of it for prevention.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Areopagitica
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The cure for crime is locking up malefactors and doing so with equal and impartial enthusiasm regardless of skin colour.
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Some even worry that malefactors will go a step further, and begin hijacking address space that's already in active use.
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It is most infamous and intolerable oppression!" said Morton, half speaking to himself; "here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without the privilege of a formal trial, which our laws indulge to the worst malefactor!
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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Alemain (who, of your special beneuolence, were indued with certaine priuileges and fauours in your citie of London, and in other places) were, as malefactors, apprehended and caried to prison, vntil such time as the trueth was more apparant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Of all the bands that have been stolen, and all the people that have been blown up, and scorched and vitrioled, and shot at, and shot, by Union men, did ever you and your bobbies nail a single malefactor?
Put Yourself in His Place
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Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime.
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When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
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In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
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Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
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Jeremiah's power to reverse the sentence God had passed upon Zedekiah, but it was in Zedekiah's power to reverse the sentence which the princes had given against him; and therefore, since he thought him fit to be used as a prophet, he would not think him fit to be abused as the worst of malefactors.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Grange lived on its own solid substance, defying malefactory Radical tricksters.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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As he was going to the place of execution, he still looked graver and mote concerned; though he did not fall into those agonies of sighing and tears as some do, but seemed to bear his miserable state with great composedness and resignation, saying he had repented as well as he could in the short time allowed him, suffering the same day with the two last mentioned malefactors.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Their selection by the mass-circulation magazine reflects the readiness of society to see corporate malefactors punished.
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The principles with which he had been seasoned in his youth served to render him more tractable and civilized when under his last misfortunes, unto which he fell with the two afore-mentioned malefactors; they being all indicted for assaulting one Mr. Francis Williams on the highway, and taking from him a silver watch value three pounds, two guineas and a moidore, [79] on the 28th of February, 1728.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Similarly, public execution by hanging was not unheard of, constituting an efficient means of ridding ‘the colony of malefactors.’
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It might have been brought in by a thief, or by a malefactor who had followed Richie from Manhattan.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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If I cast from my mind every malefaction our people have committed, I will become a malefactor myself.
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His prayers, if for the souls of the malefactors, may remain private; they cannot be publicly understood.
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Besides identifying malefactors, grand jurors were to discern problems of public order.
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Jerusalem, as search is made for a malefactor in disguise, that is harboured by his accomplices.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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She must have been a terrible malefactor indeed if her crimes are in proportion to her penalty.
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Christ crucified is the power of God (1 Cor.i. 24); let him by a lively faith take hold of him, as a man that is sinking catches hold of a bough, or cord, or plank, that is within his reach, or as the malefactor took hold of the horns of the altar, believing that there is no other name by which he can be saved, by which he can be reconciled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Even at the hardest kind of shovelling they outlived every other kind a dozen weeks, and the fireman was a lucky malefactor who could induce a soldier to part with his.
To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days
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Morton, half speaking to himself; “here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without the privilege of a formal trial, which our laws indulge to the worst malefactor!
Old Mortality
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This entails a lot of spaceship travel, along with biffo on blades on various primitive worlds and he tries to track down the chief malefactor.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Doomstar - Edmond Hamilton
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IT passeth for a general report of what was customary in former times, that the sheriff of the county used to present the judge with a pair of white gloves at those which we call maiden assizes, viz. when no malefactor is put to death therein; a great rarity (though usual in small) in large and populous countries.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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During New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, he thundered from the pulpit against Wall Street's malefactors of great wealth.
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I have heard stories of her riding on a green horse and righting wrongs caused by malefactors, but I have never seen her.
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And occasionally this desire to inflict hurt on malefactors extends beyond the government and almost as far as criminals.
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The Sultan was responsible, for these barbarities were not the act of the criminal class, such as afflicts every country, the malefactors who usually perpetrate horrible crime, but were perpetrated by the agents of the Sultan -- the soldiers and the
The Grand Old Man
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Though there will yet be further Tory victims swept away by this particular tide of sleaze, the vast majority of malefactors will prove to be representatives of ZANU Labour, entirely in emulation of their Zimbabwean counterparts.
Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
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And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor. —
Ulysses
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In any case, the operation - holding the malefactors of the old regime accountable for their acts - does seem to be becoming a family affair.
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He was to be commended; therefore do I promise, that from henceforth no malefactor shall by justice be executed within my jurisdiction of Salmigondinois, who shall not, for a day or two at least before, be permitted to culbut and foraminate onocrotalwise, that there remain not in all his vessels to write
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
