"Ah, sinful nation; people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters!

They suborned certain evil-doers, whose names I do not know, by promises of pennies and of land.

They form a fitting study for youth and old age, an incentive to virtue and a terror to evil-doers, a thesaurus of moral wisdom; they speak in every line a lofty and comprehensive intellect, acquainted with all the experiences of life.

I am bidden by friend Simon, the true and faithful steward of Mistress Godwin in Barbary, to defend her house and lands against robbers and evil-doers of every kind, and without respect of their degree; and, with the Lord's help," adds he, showing a stout cudgel, "that will I do, friend.

Her deep melancholy was believed to be caused by some dark fateby some agonising sympathy with evil-doers; and it was sometimes said in Aberalva,"Don't do that, for poor Grace's sake.

Justice, lame-footed as she is, at length overtook a pair of notorious evil-doers.

Chamberlain: A little gold perhaps from evil-doers for justice.

He gave all evil-doers one week's warning, at the expiration of which all who could not give a satisfactory account of themselves were to be severely punished.

The late troubles caused cattle and horse-thieves to unite against the legitimate owners, and the name now includes both classes of evil-doers.

The sword rights wrongs and punishes evil-doers, and some day the sword may cut the way out of this embarrass also.

To which he made instant reply: "My lord, I thank you humbly for your kindness, but with God's help the goods of such evil-doers shall never enter my house for they would bring me misfortune.

"He were an old man to wander off alone, and there's allays evil-doers round about for the unprotected.

To be so near that wonderful highway to the land of the evil-doers and to a land, alas!

And his grave was made with the wicked, And among evil-doers his burial mound, Although he had done no violence, Neither was deceit in his mouth.

Let all evil-doers take warning by his punishment.

Not with dungeons, halter, and fire; for those modes of punishment have gone by; but by ejecting their members from religious fellowship, and defaming their characters for doing that which they conscientiously believe is required at their hands; casting out their names as evil-doers for honestly endeavoring to support one of the most dignified testimonies ever given to the Society of Friends to hold up before a sinful world.

We guarded our herds of branded cattle and shaggy horses, hunted bear, bison, elk, and deer, established civil government, and put down evil-doers, white and red, on the banks of the Little Missouri and among the wooded, precipitous foot-hills of the Bighorn, exactly as did the pioneers who a hundred years previously built their log-cabins beside the Kentucky or in the valleys of the Great Smokies.

The mounted riflemen scoured the country and broke up the gangs of evil-doers, hanging six or seven of the leaders, while a number of the less prominent were brought before the committee, who fined some and condemned others to be whipped or branded.

His great white teeth were a terror to evil-doers, and his bark in the dead of night would make venturesome bears sneak back into the forest like kittens.

God had abandoned the good and faithful, and the traitors and evil-doers were triumphant; his only consolation was the stronghold of the temple, which had lived through so many centuries of turmoil, and could still defy its enemies for so many more.

All persons who, not being in the military service, are, after the publication of this edict, found wearing military uniforms, and who cannot show that they are in the military service, will be suspected as evil-doers and will be sent to this Government to be subjected to the corresponding corrective measures.

The tongue-lynchings and other punishments inflicted by the community upon evil-doers were adapted to the reformation of the culprit or his banishment from the community.

" "Go on, then," he said, somewhat crossly; "there is indeed naught to be gained by standing here as a butt for the eyes of evil-doers.

It is an illustration of our intolerance of evil-doers.

A minister of Easter Anstruther, during the last century, used to say of the magistrates of Wester Anstruther, that "instead of being a terror to evil-doers, evil-doers were a terror to them.