368 Verbs to Use for the Word crimes

Poor TOM was a deal to be pitied as well as blamed; for although he was the one who committed the crime, he was not the only one who reaped a benefit therefrom.

This desperate wretch, previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the last extremity.

if he sought to fly, and, if he paused, interviewed him in a magisterial manner, and almost tearfully implored him to Confess his crime in time for the Next Edition.

During months and months, just to punish this great crime, there was no bright sunshine; but often in the long night, while the chief was wearying for summer to come again, he'd be tantalised by these little bits of the broken day that flickered in the sky.

"We have no capital punishment," says he; "for, from all we learn, it is not more efficacious in preventing crime, than other punishments which are milder; and we prefer making the example to offenders a lasting one.

A German would never perpetrate such monstrous crimes, and that we can say without any overweening opinion of ourselves.

no, not Olympia; no one must ever know the unutterable crime she suspected her father of.

Hill was at first too frightened to disclose what he knew, but as time went on his affection for his murdered master, and his desire to bring the murderer to justice, overcame his feelings of fear for his own share in bringing about the crime, and he went and confessed everything to the police, regardless of the consequences that might recoil upon his own head.

But in a way he discovered the crime.

It is pretended, and was generally believed, that the Duke of Gloucester killed him with his own hands; but the universal odium which that Prince had incurred, perhaps inclined the nation to aggravate his crimes without any sufficient authority.

"Andy was a-helpin' 'em," declared one of the group, as though that fact might constitute a crime in his eyes.

The misrule of monarchs does not bring permanent degradation on a nation, unless it shares the crimes of its monarch,as in the case of the Romans, when the leading idea of the people was military conquest, from the very commencement of their state.

He reminded him of the helpless women and children in the town, and asked him, for their sakes, to consider the crime of resisting; but it was all in vain.

Looking upon so splendid a figure, it was no wonder that the mountain desert had forgiven the crimes of Lord Nick because of the careless insolence with which he treated the law.

His whole ideaBeaumaroy's, that iswas to shield offenders, to prevent the punishment fitting the crime, even to console and countenance the wrongdoer.

That punishment should not follow so terrible a crime, even I cannot desire.

Justice demands the forfeit life of Cali; Justice demands, that I reveal your crimes; Justice demandsbut see th' approaching sultan!

"Do you know, I feel that some angel of retribution has guided us to this lonely farmhouse and put the idea into my head to discover and expose a dreadful crime.

But in an hour of temptation, or from strange infatuation, he added murder to adultery,covering up a great crime by one of still greater enormity, evincing meanness and treachery as well as ungoverned passion, and creating a scandal which was considered disgraceful even in an Oriental palace.

" "They can prove all that," she agreed, "but they can't prove the crime itself.

"I never yet had any trouble finding a crime to charge a man with, once I got the nippers on him.

With my own hand I re-covered the face with the sheet, and inwardly resolved to avenge the dastardly crime.

"I was further commissioned to get evidence against John Sprague, fixing upon him the crime of betraying his colors and aiding the Confederacy.

The sagacity of our predecessors has often detected crimes concealed with more policy than can be ascribed to those whose conduct is now to be examined, and dragged the authors of national calamities to punishment from their darkest retreats.

No legislature can authorize murder, nor make honesty penal, nor virtue a crime, nor exact impossibilities.

368 Verbs to Use for the Word  crimes