"Evidently there's something criminal in her record," said Barnett, frowning at the fusty schooner astern.

There were present over two hundred burglars and criminals of the worst kind, besides a great number of other bad characters.

"If he can earn an honest living, why should he be dishonest?" "In the first place, most criminals are criminals from choice, not from necessity; and with a cultured man the incentive is usually the excitement of it.

The pope frequently turned the zeal of the crusaders from the infidels against his own enemies, whom he represented as equally criminal with the enemies of Christ.

He had asked no questions of Liane, and his knowledge of Cherbourg was limited to a memory of passing through the place as a boy, with a case-hardened criminal as guide and police at their heels.

" "Then pursue the criminal at once, with assistance, and bring him back here.

It allowed the united companies of Barbers and Surgeons to have yearly the bodies of four criminals for dissection.

"And so you will send me to France, Jason, and my son too, criminals to justice.

When Elisha Boone denounced the outbreak of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as more criminal than Aaron Burr's treason, his children made his prepossessions their own; when, three years later, the father proudly eulogized the uprising he had so luridly condemned, his children saw no tergiversation in the swift conversion.

He was a criminal by profession and had undergone several heavy sentences for burglary.

A criminal on the scaffold, with the noose around his neck, the trap about to be sprung, and receiving a pardon just at the last moment, thus giving him a new lease of life, could not have been more grateful than I was at that time.

She was at first much worried to learn that she had been innocently harboring a criminal under her humble roof; but Frank soon allayed her fears on that account.

But whatever took place, a dangerous criminal like Birchill would not require much provocation to silence a man who interrupted him while he was on business bent, and a man, moreover, against whom he nursed a bitter grudge.

Black Bart would have been shot on sight had he presented his doggerel to any self-respecting Western editor; nevertheless the sentiment that inspired a bandit to set forth his misdeeds in execrable rhyme transformed him from a criminal into a popular hero!

"The Greatest Criminal against Humanity; King Edward VII. of England.

It is mere foolish cruelty to provide penalties which torment the criminal without preventing the crime.

And even though the positive school is not mentioned, all profess to be studying the material furnished by it, for instance, its analyses of the sentiments of the criminal, his moral sense, his behavior before, during and after the criminal act, the presence of remorse which people, judging the criminal after their own feelings, always suppose the criminal to feel, while, in fact, it is seldom present.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and advice with regard to its ratification, a convention for the mutual surrender of criminals between the United States and the Swiss Confederation, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries on the 15th of September last at Paris.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, suggesting the propriety of passing a law making it criminal within the limits of the United States to counterfeit the current coin of any foreign nation.

He has to trace the sequence of thoughts and feelings in the condemned criminal during the days between his sentence and its execution; the dreams of happier days that haunt his pillowdays when he wandered with his sweetheart or his sister through their village meadows: "Yes!

For the pleasure of being insolent and showing his boldness, he has pulled down from its pedestal what he adored, consequently the most criminal among the members of the Commune, once a swindler, now a pilferer, is free to say to M. Rossel, who is, I am told, a man of intelligence and honesty, "You are worse than I am, for you have betrayed us!" FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 81: PARIS

It was a strange change for her, from the quiet little village of Bishopstowe, to the pursuit of a criminal across Europe to an island in the Mediterranean.

As madame probably understands, criminals above a certain level of intelligence are seldom caught by the police except through the treachery of accomplices.

We should then single every Criminal out of the Herd, and hunt him down, however formidable and overgrown he might appear: On the contrary, we should shelter distressed Innocence, and defend Virtue, however beset with Contempt or Ridicule, Envy or Defamation.

A cry of indignation burst from every part of the country: he was their native kingwould they suffer him to be arraigned as a criminal before a foreign tribunal?