91 collocations for convicts

His surname convicts the man unheard and almost excuses him.

In fact, I don't see how it can be managed without him; and then his testimony would convict the prisoners.

"If we find it, the crime would then tell its own taleit would convict the person in whose hand I have seen that fatal weapon," was her clear, bold answer.

"You may think," said he, "that I was too timid, that I was too ready to run away from danger; but it is hard for any one but myself readily to appreciate my horror of a sentence to imprisonment or convict labor for life.

The court could never convict this girl.

And this is what we learn from Christ's teaching: "He, when He is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment."

I will give one hundred dollars for proof sufficient to convict his harborers.

In making this last recommendation, it is difficult not to convict the American commissioners of something very like hypocrisy.

"We have convicted the wretch," he said presently.

"Do you gen'l'muns all understand that we're tryin' to convict this feller for doctoring a horse without a prescription?" "You mean a license, don't you?" inquired Bently.

'You hardly are able to convict Mr. Thompson of falsehood, then, Judge,' said I, 'if I understood you right.

The Espionage Law, which never convicted a spy, and the Criminal Syndicalism Laws, which never convicted a criminal, were used savagely and with full force against the workers in their struggle for better conditions.

The dog that convicted a murderer, by Arnold Fountain, pseud. of Fulton Oursler.

Bureaucracy convicts itself; the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy of 1910.

" Rosenthal did not ask of what crime the condemned two had been convicted.

It would be a pleasing variation in the monotony of convicting defenseless, helpless Belgians if he could show that one of these fellows masquerading as Americans was a sham.

'The jury having been convinced of the prisoner's guilt, he was convicted.'" DETECT, DISCRIMINATE.To detect is "to find out;" to discriminate is "to distinguish between." DISCLOSE, DISCOVER.To disclose is "to uncover," "to reveal;" to discover is, in modern usage, "to find.

These, and, so far as we can discover, these alone, are the proofs on which Mr. Wilson convicts Bernal Diaz of being a nonentity,of having, like Rosalind in "As you like it," merely "counterfeited to be a man.

I could get up now, if I wished," jestingly, "I am getting well as fast as I can, just to convict the other doctor of a mistaken diagnosis.

" "But no jury could convict our employers, if that is what you mean.

"Well," said another man, an expert in human nature, "I'd convict that fellow of murder any time, on the strength of his looks.

He would be against prize-fighting to a certainty, but how far he might be inclined to convict a prize-fighter was another matter.

For perverse thoughts separate from God, And his power, when it is tried, convicts the foolish; For wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, Nor dwell in a body that is pledged to sin.

And if it please you to show signs of taking his matter to heart, I hope that the truth, which he will make to appear, will convict the forgers of heretics of being slanderers and disobedient towards you rather than zealots for the faith.

But is it easy to convict Mr. Gladstone of other exaggeration than that naturally produced by uncommon ability to array facts so as to produce conviction, which indeed is the talent of the advocate rather than that of the judge?

91 collocations for  convicts