Quoth the Sheriff, "I can tell Your Majesty but little concerning the doings of those naughty fellows, saving that they are the boldest lawbreakers in all the land.

A lawbreaker was confronted with an ugly alternative.

The inference was that another lawbreaker might go for the same reason.

The Mounted did not choose the easy way of killing lawbreakers because of the difficulty of capturing them.

In the middle of the room assorted lawbreakers gathered round a table were playing fan-tan at the top of their lungs.

It seemed a vivid illustration of the power of the law over the lawbreaker.

They 're breaking the law, and you and I are not willing to be lawbreakers.

Even if the lawbreaker hopes to escape punishment at the hands of the state, and puts out of mind the thought of future retribution, he can never escape the disapproval of his misdeeds on the part of his fellows.

It is a remnant of the great deer forest that, originally in the possession of various feudal lords, became Crown property in the reign of the fourth Edward and remained in royal hands until the time of James I. During that long period, and for many years afterwards, it was a region where the scanty population, innocent as well as lawbreaker, lived in constant fear of the barbarous laws governing the chase.

They saw to the recording of deeds and wills, settled all questions of debt, issued marriage licenses, and carried on a most vigorous warfare against lawbreakers, especially horse-thieves.

Why should he be permitted to trespass more than any other common lawbreaker?

But there was a somewhat curious if not uncommon inconsistency in Miss Beekman's attitude toward lawbreakers in that once they were in prison they instantly became objects of her gentlest solicitude.

Only Danny was neither a tyro nor a humbug, and had he not been a lawbreaker the world would have been to some extent the loser.

Yet by all the canons of ethics and justice it was most improper for Mr. Tutt to hurry off to the Tombs and bail out old Danny Lowry, a self-confessed lawbreaker, giving his own bond and the house on Twenty-third Street as security.

Among its people are toilers and idlers, laws and lawbreakers, thieves and highwaymen, grand folk and plain folk.