9373 examples of crime in sentences

Before that date, indeed, the world seems to have had no conception in what manner the crime was committed, and the common story seems to have been that Richard had put his nephews to the sword; but the confession of Tyrell at once put an end to this surmise, and we hear of it no longer.

" Such was the awful retribution that overtook this inhuman King during the two short years that he survived his greatest crime, till the battle of Bosworth completed the measure of his punishment.

In the course of his sermons he more than once held up to reprobation the scandalous conduct of the Pope, whom the public voice accused of every vice and every crime to be expected in a libertine so depraveda man so ambitious, perfidious, and cruela monarch and a priest intoxicated with absolute power.

He would, by so signal a service, blot out the crime of his primary usurpation, and, if death should overtake him in the midst of his exertions, he should die laboring for the prosperity and glory of his country, and free from the persecution which threatened him.

The expulsion of so many persons threw thousands loose upon society, ripe for any crime.

"For a crime which requires no excuse, and no explanation other than a mirror.

It is, I am told, a crime that women sometimes condone.

" "It was no crime," she said.

I maintain that the situation as I saw it presented all the possibilities of a different sort of crime.

"He said that the first idea of the crime was suggested by Sir Wynston's man accidentally mentioning, a few days after their arrival, that his master slept with his bank-notes, to the amount of some hundreds of pounds, in a pocketbook under his pillow.

Often, in the dead of the night, the servants would overhear their bitter and fierce altercations ringing through the melancholy mansion, and often the reckless use of terrible and mysterious epithets of crime.

God grant, that as the providential unfolding of all the details of this mysterious crime comes about, he maybe brought to recognize, in the just and terrible process, the hand of heaven.

With a painful effort, however, he again grasped with his hand to recover the weapon he had suffered to escape, and secured, as it afterwards turned out, not the knife with which he had meditated the commission of his crime, but the dagger which was afterwards found where he had concealed it.

She found that her power must now be secured by crime, and she fell.

"The hand of the law is not laid in punishment on people who are guilty of no crime," responded Craft, coolly; "and there is no criminal charge that you can fairly bring against me.

Poverty is my worst crime.

How much suffering and crime would have been prevented, if he could only have uttered the words which his heart prompted!" "God forgive the woman!" said Mr. Hardwick, solemnly.

But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

A NEW CLUE TO AN OLD CRIME XIX.

And then the rape of Belgium, your premier man-sized crime.

" Oddly enough, she found that she was neither very much afraid of the fat man, nor did she loathe him for his crime.

Cold Feet had certainly been here according to Sinclair's confession, and it was certainly reasonable to suppose that Cold Feet had committed this crime.

"Monsieur Thiers alone excepts the assassins of General Lecomte and General Clément Thomas, who if taken will be tried for the crime.

We must have been blind indeed the day that this double crime failed to open our eyes to the true characters of the men who, if they did not commit it or cause it to be committed, made at least no attempt to discover the criminals!

The crime to be punished with death was not the taking of property from its owner, but violence to an immortal nature, the blotting out of a sacred distinctionmaking MEN "chattels.

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