26 adjectives to describe convict

You would be sent back to Siberia, and I should probably follow you for harboring an escaped convict.

"Shielding a runaway convict is an indictable offenceto say nothing of altering his appearance.

The Annual Meeting of the British Ladies Society, an excellent organisation for visiting and caring for female convicts, although usually held at Westminster, was this year held in the Friends' meeting-house at Plaistow.

Talking of the religious discipline proper for unhappy convicts, he said, 'Sir, one of our regular clergy will probably not impress their minds sufficiently: they should be attended by a Methodist preacher[1017]; or a Popish priest.'

Aboriginal convicts.

Of the many colored convicts sold out of the State, it is believed none ever return.

They said they had found him capable, industrious, and faithful; and their distrust of him was founded solely on the fact of his being a discharged convict.

"The hardened convict moves their sympathy, and is to be taught the laws before he is expected to obey them; yet the guiltless slave is subjected to an extensive system of cruel enactments, of no part of which, probably, has he ever heard.

Have the unfortunate convicts been guilty of injury to you?

What a reproach it was to lend ourselves to this superstition!Yes: we stood by; we heard the trial; we knew the crime to be impossible; and that the accused must be innocent: but we waited in patient silence for his condemnation; and then we lent our friendly aid to the police of the country, by buying the wretched convict, with all his family; whom, for the benefit of Africa, we carried away also into perpetual slavery.

No more a boy, not on an August night, but broken, branded convict in the November gale! '

Why do they press to hear and see? Can it be that human hearts Delight in human misery? When the inexorable hour Chills the hopeless convict's blood; When sunk and drown'd his eve'ry power, In sorrow's overwhelming flood: To view the scene the many run, And o'er the hapless wretch to sigh: Nor once enquire the crime he' has done; ... They only come to see him die.

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One could sit somewhere by the Yenissey or Obi river and fish, and on the ferry there would be nice little convicts, emigrants....

Thirdly, by compounds or phrases including some distinctive term: as, Mr. Murray, Mrs. Murray; Englishman, Englishwoman; grandfather, grandmother; landlord, landlady; merman, mermaid; servingman, servingmaid; man-servant, maid-servant; schoolmaster, schoolmistress; school-boy, school-girl; peacock, peahen; cock-sparrow, hen-sparrow; he-goat, she-goat; buck-rabbit, doe-rabbit; male elephant, female elephant; male convicts, female convicts.

Having directed the turnkey to place some wine and slight refreshments on the table, and to trim the light, he told me in a whisper, that my friends would be at the prison, with the clergyman, at the hour of six; and bidding the miserable convict and myself, after a cheering word or two, "good night," he departedthe door was closedand the murderer

The average number of native convicts is about seventeen, and the expense of the whole establishment to Government is about 200 pounds per annum; but, under the good management of superintendent Vincent, it has realized 1500 pounds by the sale of corn and salt, and allowing for the value of the buildings erected.

An occasional runaway convict from Australia added spice to the mixture.

She could no more abide the place where she was than a pardoned convict can abide the prison that has restrained him.

Wesley in his Journalthe reference I have mislaidseemed from this consideration almost to regret a reprieve that came to a penitent convict.

In one of the Camden Society's publications is a letter from Friar John Hylsey to Thomas Cromwell, in which we find "As God is my jugge";[H] but we do not believe that jug was an old form of judge, though a philological convict might fancy that the former word was a derivative of the latter.

A musket was levelled at him, when Daaga pushed it aside, and said, 'Not this man.' {176a} People will smile at the simplicity of those savages; but it should be recollected that civilised convicts were lately in the constant habit of attempting to escape from New South Wales in order to walk to China.

If there had been a stranger in the carriage listening to us, he would, I think, have found it impossible to believe that I was Neil Lyndon, the much-wanted convict, and that Tommy and Joyce were engaged in the criminal pursuit of helping me avoid the police.

The elderly convict gave no sign of having felt either the pain or the indignity, but gazed straight over the warder's head.

Unable to save his life, I endeavored to soothe the few remaining hours of the doomed convict, and frequently visited him in the condemned cell.

26 adjectives to describe  convict