"Can't you indict him for burglary?

" "You can indict all day; the thing is to convict!" snapped Peckham.

Indict this fellow and send him up quick.

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This would secure the man till it could be discovered whether there was legal ground to indict him for the letters.

Why should a grand jury have to indict a person who has been examined and held for trial by a justice of the peace?

Historians may indict a hero or whitewash a villain at their leisure; but to the dramatist a hero must be (more or less) a hero, a villain (more or less) a villain, if accepted tradition so decrees it.

They then proceeded to indict capitally, and demand bail of each of the persons who had been the promoters of the disorder and riot.

But our case threw a new light on the old law, and the Lord Advocate was slow to indict where he saw not only reasons for failure, but also rising difficulties which might strike at the respect upon which the law was founded.

They can believe all thisand further, that a majority of the citizens in the places where these outrages have been committed, connived at them; and by refusing to indict the perpetrators, or, if they were indicted, by combining to secure their acquittal, and rejoicing in it, have publicly adopted these felonies as their own.

Let the Grand Jury indict A.B. for stealing wearing apparel, and let the indictment, with an affidavit of the criminal's flight, be forwarded by the Governor of the State, to his Excellency of New York, with a requisition for the delivery of A.B., to the agent appointed to receive him.

A Grand Jury, sworn to "present all things truly as they come to their knowledge," refuse to indict the offenders; and a senator in Congress rises in his place, and appeals to the outrage in the printing office, and the conduct of the Grand Jury as evidence of the good faith with which the people of the state of New York were resolved to observe the compact[B].

They can believe all thisand further, that a majority of the citizens in the places where these outrages have been committed, connived at them; and by refusing to indict the perpetrators, or, if they were indicted, by combining to secure their acquittal, and rejoicing in it, have publicly adopted these felonies as their own.

Let the Grand Jury indict A.B. for stealing wearing apparel, and let the indictment, with an affidavit of the criminal's flight, be forwarded by the Governor of the State, to his Excellency of New York, with a requisition for the delivery of A.B., to the agent appointed to receive him.

But if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offense.

An effort was made to indict O'Brien, but there was too much sympathy for the Cubans in Florida, where the effort was made.

440 Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows, and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transpose. 'Twere pity treason at his door to lay, Who makes heaven's gate a lock to its own key: Let him rail on, let his invective muse Have four and twenty letters to abuse, Which, if he jumbles to one line of sense, Indict him of a capital offence.

IV.Into Smooth Waters Exhilarated by freedom, Alfred began to nurse aspiring projects; he would indict his own father and the doctor, and wipe off the stigma they had cast on him.

Yet a few years later, when the hated Gentiles had gained some shadow of authority in the new Zion, their minions were especially bitter as to this feat of mercy, seeking, indeed, to indict the performers of it.

C is silent in czar, czarina, victuals, indict, muscle, corpuscle, and the second syllable of Connecticut.

"Old fellow," said the newcomer, his hand upon Trove's arm, "they've voted to indict you, and I've seen all the witnesses.

"They are going to indict your songs," said some one to him.

This fact, coupled with the circumstance that they were themselves liable to be reported to the court and punished if they failed to indict, accounts for the cautious presentments made by these Elizabethan wardens.

I will indict you all for it, if you hinder me in going forth," the knight vociferated, in accents of mingled rage and terror.

An attempt was made to indict some of the white harpies, who are selling rum to the Indians, without license.

As erst the bard by Mulla's silver stream, Oft, as he told of deadly dolorous plight, Sighed as he sung, and did in tears indite.

And indite some dozen novels or so In the fashionable style.

We would indite something about the Solar System.

The others regarded him admiringly, so the energetic little man stumped away to indite his characteristic letter to Major Doyle.

"'There are so many beautiful women,' said I, 'any one of whom you might love, of whom you might sing, and to whom you could indite your verses.

I am walking about the room in very light attire, taking up my pen from time to time to indite a few words.

fly, Speed the quick step, nor turn the lingering eye!" Such the command, as fabling Bards indite, When Orpheus charm'd the grisly King of Night; Sooth'd the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay, 250 And led the fair Assurgent into day.

There are none therefore who stir up Pity so much as those who indite their own Sufferings.

Whether he has sustained a loss or an addition to his family, whether he wants you to dine with him at the club or to lend him ten pounds, his handwriting at least will be the same, unless, indeed, he be offended, when he will generally indite your name with a studious precision and a distant grace quite foreign to his ordinary caligraphy.

This term is more applicable to Smollett, whose poems discover only in part those keen, vigorous, and original powers which enabled him to indite "Roderick Random" and "Humphrey Clinker."

The first work done by Mr. Bradlaugh on resuming the editorial chair of the National Reformer, was to indite a vigorous protest against the investment of national capital in the Suez Canal Shares.

Others our Hind of folly will indite, To entertain a dangerous guest by night.

Think you that because she will no longer meet you in her weekly Bible-readings, because her pen will no more indite the thoughts which have made so many patient under life's burdens, and helped so many to make of their burdens steps on which to mount heavenwardthink you her work is ended?

For several days I have been led to pray that the indwelling Spirit may indite my petitions.

And that would be till next Queen Bess's night: Which thus grave penny chroniclers indite.

If our sympathies are not all the same, or given equally to friends and foes, none of us would find it possible to indite a Hymn of Hate about any Balkan people.

"If I were a poet, I'd indite an ode 'written after eating some of the excellent chicken pie of the Misses Tower.'

" However woe-begone the young lover was, he does not seem to have been wholly lost to others of the sex, and at this same time he was able to indite an acrostic to another charmer, which, if incomplete, nevertheless proves that there was a "midland" beauty as well, the lady being presumptively some member of the family of Alexanders, who had a plantation near Mount Vernon.

4 So I, the wronged pen to please, Make it my humble thanks express Unto your ladyship, in these: And now 'tis forcèd to confess That your great self did ne'er indite, Nor that, to one more noble, write.

High birth and fortune warrant give That such men write what they believe; And, feeling first what they indite, New credit give to ancient light.

I dare not sing what you indite; Her eyes refuse To read the passion which they write.

While she pretends to make the graces known Of matchless Mira, she reveals her own; And when she would another's praise indite, Is by her glass instructed how to write.

110 Wrestling with death, these lines I did indite; No other theme could give my soul delight.

Truth she relates in a sublimer strain, Than all the tales the boldest Greeks could feign; For what she sung that Spirit did indite, Which gave her courage and success in fight.

When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite; The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, The body stooping, does herself erect.