Indeed, when the king's prime minister began to make investigation, he found the place so honey-combed by Christianity that he had to cease his inquisition, for fear of implicating chiefs, and upsetting society generally.

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He had hated me and vowed my death if I escaped the fate he could now dimly see opening out before himself; yet I could see that he was glad to see me slip from my tormentor's hands with my story unimpeached, and that he drew his breath more deeply and with much more evidence of freedom, now that my testimony had been thoroughly sifted and nothing had come to light implicating Carmel.

But very seldom indeedexcept the deformity be very great, and implicating other parts beside the lipwill the operation be required, or ought it to be resorted to, before the second year and a half of the infant's life; and for this very cogent reasons exist.

I therefore directed my attention closely to every circumstance in the case, and after a considerable amount of evidence had been given without much result, so far as implicating both prisoners in the actual murder was concerned, an accidental discovery revealed the whole of the facts of the tragedy as plainly as if I had seen it committed.

If I could make him believe the whole thing a monstrous plot of Godensky's to revenge himself on a woman who'd refused him, by cleverly implicating her in her lover's ruin, by throwing guilt upon her while she was, in reality, innocent!

Beyond the two facts just mentioned as implicating Carl, nothing was proved at the trial.

Some instances of individual wrong have, as at other times, taken place, but in no wise implicating the will of the nation.

Pippo naively admitted the debauch at Vévey, implicating the festivities of the day and the known frailty of the flesh as the two influencing causes.

Thus far their account of themselves and their movements was distinct, while, on the other hand, there was not a single fact to implicate either, beyond the suspicion that was more or less common to all who happened to be on the mountain at the moment the crime was committed.

MacLachan expressed the acidulous hope that thereafter Cyrus the Gaunt would be content with making a fool of himself without implicating innocent and confiding friends.

"I laughed," he said,disingenuously because it wouldn't do to implicate Paula"over the idea that perhaps he didn't want a job at all and made up on the spur of the moment the unlikeliest trade he could think of.

In several instances we have practised this treatment for the dressing of wounds implicating the bursæ of tendons and the capsules of joints.

Before the duel, the following spirited explanation takes place: The prince spoke low, And said: Before you answer what you can, I wish to tell you, as a gentleman, That what you may confess Will implicate no person known to you, More than disquiet in its sleep may do.p.

At first she was afraid of implicating some person she thought guilty, but now she knows that person is not guilty.

"You don't want to further implicate matters by giving out the name of the power whose seal shows on the wax!

By eavesdropping those who were now convicted and confronting them with their own words, confessions were procured implicating many others who in turn were put on trial, including Gullah Jack whose necromancy could not save him.

Therefore we would recommend to our fellow-citizens that if any facts should be elicited implicating either white men or negroes in any insurrectionary or abolition movements, that they be apprehended and delivered over to the legal tribunals of the country for full and fair judicial trial."

As for anyone else in the room, I can't see that you have anything on usunless perhaps this new evidence you speak of may implicate Asche, or Jameson," he added, including me in a wave of his hand, as if he were already addressing a jury.

The relation of being 'on' doesn't seem to implicate or involve in any way the inner meaning of the manuscript or the inner structure of the deskthese objects engage in it only by their outsides, it seems only a temporary accident in their respective histories.

He is generally understood to mean, "Why do you try to implicate me in a political charge?" and it is supposed that he prudently evaded the question.

For the time being, I have to deal with Mikolka; there are facts which implicate himwhat are facts, after all?

They tried in a most shameful manner it appears, to implicate Sir Marmaduke and Mistress de Chavasse in their disgrace, but as the former very pertinently remarked, "How could he, a simple Kentish squire have aught to do with a smart London club?

It was dear of Billy not to implicate me.

" "Sir, I extol this discretionnot that there is any testimony to implicate more than the crew, but credit is a delicate flower, and it should be handled tenderly.