Although it was difficult to bring this great culprit to justice, yet his death is a lesson to traitors.

Jervis had the whole country scoured for him, but unless he had scoured it himself, there was little chance of any one else finding the culprit.

Sometimes the master, short-sighted as he was, would catch the culprit in the act.

But then it was secular and mundane; it pertained to the political and social aspects of States; it belonged to the Forum or the Senate; it was employed to save culprits, to kindle patriotic devotion, or to stimulate the sentiments of freedom and public virtue.

Some cast their votes in consideration of the law enacted about punishing the culprits, and others in consideration of the arms of Caesar.

The passengers were very clamorous, and would, without doubt, have hanged the culprit immediately, had it not been for the interference of the captain, who, after a curt examination, had him pinioned and taken below.

"I never said I wasn't," retorted the culprit, defiantly.

When the cart arrived at the foot of the gallows, the executioner first ascended the ladder backwards, drawing the culprit after him by means of the ropes, and forcing him to keep pace with him; on arriving at the top, he quickly fastened the two tortouses to the arm of the gibbet, and by a jerk of his knee he turned the culprit off the ladder, still holding the jet in his own hand.

The affair hung loose for a time, and Lindsay's friends, anxious to save him, got him induced to run his lettersthe effect of which is to give the prosecutor a period wherein to try the culprit, on failure of which the person charged is free.

Arnold for awhile was inexorable, but presently offered to pardon the culprit on condition that he should go and spread a panic in the camp of St. Leger.

So now, seizing the weeping culprit by the hair, she dragged her to the door, and, after exhausting her own powers of maltreatment, called to her husband and ordered him to bring, on his return, a new cowhide,"For you shall," cried she, in uncontrollable rage, "give this wretch, in the morning, two hundred lashes!"

Can the instigators protect the culprit without committing themselves?" "They would appeal, I do not doubt, to a law, passed many ages ago with a special regard to ourselves, but which has not been applied for a score of centuries, putting the members of a secret religious society beyond the pale of legal protection.

I thrust my hand beneath the single blanket that covered him, and was immediately convinced that I had discovered the culprit.

You would take my word implicitly; you would have made up your mind before you heard her; you would deal harder measure to Eivé than to any one, because she is your pet; you would think for once not of sparing the culprit, but of satisfying me; and afterwards" She paused, and I saw that she would not conclude in words a sentence I could perhaps have finished for myself.

But Belgian policemen guided the street traffic, arrested culprits for ordinary misdemeanours, and took them before Belgian judges.

"Now, Pansy," said Patty, as she captured that culprit in the conservatory, and led her off to the kitchen, "I want you to try especially hard to-day to do just as I want you to, and to help me in every possible way.

Ann., i, 404-6 ("If the ordinarie shall perceave that, either by slackness of the justices or waywardness of juries," recusants cannot be indicated at quarter sessions, then the ordinary shall, after first trying persuasion, excommunicate the culprits, and after forty days procure the writ against them).

Regent (eying the culprit).

"I'mI'm awfully sorry," faltered the culprit.

Her distress was so real, and she was so real in her desire to do good, that I felt myself quite a culprit, especially as the man got no bed, and died on his slats.

I should be allowed to forgive the culprit!"

The principle applied was that of punishing half a dozen or all the boys in the class in the hope of getting the real culprit.

Every one saw that it was benevolence, however impoperly exerted, that induced my friend to refuse giving up the culprit; and as I had now recovered my money, I felt pretty much in the same dispositionthat was, to allow him to fall into other hands.

It was no easy thing for a plebeian consul to bring to justice so great a culprit.

It was, indeed, no uncommon event for the congregation to hear some high-born culprit confessing his sins as he walked barefoot and scantily clothed in the procession in York Minster.