But that Adair should inform him, two minutes after Mr. Downing's announcement of Psmith's confession, that Psmith, too, was guiltless, and that the real criminal was Dunsterit was this that made him feel that somebody, in the words of an American author, had played a mean trick on him, and substituted for his brain a side order of cauliflower.

The criminal was a negro, the victim a white woman;it was only reasonable to expect the worst.

That criminal, as you doubtless believe him, was my father's father, though few knew it, when he was honored as a prince and a high officer of the king's.

If a man escaped the gallows, he was lucky, while the criminals were by no means the hardened ruffians who had been trained in the school of crime; they were mostly composed of the most ignorant rural labourersif, indeed, in those days there were any degrees of ignorance, when to be able to read a few words by spelling them was considered a prodigious feat.

Viciously criminal is Tedge, of "The Man Who Cursed the Lilies," by Charles Tenney Jackson.

And is it not a proof of the infinite wisdom of God that the worst criminals are not atheists, and that most of the atheists whose names are recorded have been honest men?

It means that with certain physical and mental imperfections and with certain environment the criminal will be the result.

As we walked across the parade, our attention was sometimes called to a tapping upon the bars of the dungeon in which a criminal was confinedit was the murderer of Lieutenant Foster.

Criminals, also, in cases of adultery and witchcraft, became slaves by the same laws.

The criminal was his trusted servant, who had proved unworthy of confidence.

It was time that the real criminal should be the sufferer, and not that innocence should for ever labour under the oppression of guilt.

The criminal was a fine young woman, and the strangling had not been completed, for when the flames reached her at the stake, she uttered a shriek.

XXIV STIGMATA OF THE CRIMINAL Lombroso and others have emphasized the theory that the criminal is a distinct physical type.

The first criminal is the Origin of Evil.

Before the essayist and legislator, the criminal is a sort of moving dummy, on whose hack the judge may paste an article of the penal code.

The born criminal is a victim of that which I will call (seeing that science has not yet solved this problem) criminal neurosis, which is very analogous to epileptic neurosis, but which is not in itself sufficient to make one a criminal.

All crime is doubtless much more common in the city than the country, and the young criminal especially is a product of the crowded community.

The good man, who subordinates his own welfare to that of society, acts under the same necessity as the evil-doer; hence repentance and pangs of conscience, which increase the amount of pain in the world, but are incapable of effecting amendment, are useless and reprehensible: the criminal is an ill man, and must not be more harshly punished than the safety of society requires.

The long voyages across the Atlantic and to the East had given great impetus to the development of the sailing vessel; its increasing use, and the entrance of England and Holland into the Mediterranean, had shown the Powers of that sea its superiority over the galley; finally, slaves were becoming more difficult to obtain in sufficient quantities, while criminals had never been a satisfactory source of supply.

The trivial on the one hand, the criminal on the other, in the individual, are the extremes of realistic art, while idealism rises to an almost superhuman emphasis on that wisdom and virtue, and the beauty clothing them, which are the goal of a nation's effort.

The criminal was becoming an obsession of which I must beware if I would not end my days in an asylum; a fact which was further impressed on me when I saw my late fellow-passenger, who had just caught sight of me, 'legging it' down the station approach like a professional pedestrian and looking back nervously over his shoulder.

This generous attempt to shield his superiors deserves to be appreciated, but it does not dispel the belief that the worst criminals are still a good way behind the German lines.

An ignorant criminal is never dangerousit's the ignorant criminals who fill the prisons.

And then, I suppose, every great criminal is a little insane.

That at that moment the criminal was within its confines, where perhaps the beloved Cora was imprisoned, a miserable and pining captive.