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Sentences ending with convict

Mr. Wiley, close-cropped, would have resembled a convict. [9]
Its first brick was laid and its first house built by a passing convict. [5]
In the bottom of the dingey lay a man, apparently dead, wearing the clothes of a convict. [11]
Masked judges and masked executioners, with unlimited power, and no appeal from their judgements, in that hard, cruel age, were not likely to be lenient with men they suspected yet could not convict. [5]
Far be it from him to cast any suspicion upon the motives of the able, eloquent and ingenious lawyers of the state; they act officially; their business is to convict. [5]
Between the captain and myself, we kept life in him, and at last landed him at Port Darwin; all of us, officers and crew, swearing to let no one know he was a convict. [11]

More example sentences with the word convict in them

You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
Yes, that is what they have done to me--made a convict, an outlaw of me. [11]
The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong. [2]
At this junction was formerly a convict station called Port Arthur--a place hard to escape from. [5]
This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. [2]
But tie yourself up with a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! [2]
He had come to study French government in New Caledonia, to gauge the extent of the menace that the convict question bore towards Australia, and to tell his tale to Australia, and to such other countries as would listen. [11]
It was conveyed to him later by letters of commendation from the Governor that he should be free to go anywhere in the islands and to see whatever was to be seen, from convict prison to Hotel Dieu. [11]
He came close to her now and said: "If you are so kind in thought for a convict, I dare hope that you would be more kind to me. [11]
Without entering upon this question at length, I will suggest that the convict should, for his own sake, have the indeterminate sentence applied to him upon conviction of his first penal offense. [4]
I mention these things because, if, when I convict him in one falsehood, he is permitted to shift his ground and pass it by in silence, there can be no end to this controversy. [7]
Of the murder there could not be the least doubt, or that the prisoner followed the deceased to New York with a murderous intent: On the evidence the jury must convict, and might do so without leaving their seats. [5]
What jury in the world but would convict you on your own evidence? [11]
The mines in the Sinai peninsula, where more convict labor was needed, were the goal of these unfortunate men. [10]
He showed that the only real evidence which could convict his man of murder was that of the witness Crozier. [11]
Over there to the left was Ile Nou, the convict prison; on the hill was the Governor's residence; below, the Government establishments with their red-tiled roofs; and hidden away in a luxuriance of tropical vegetation lay the houses of the citizens. [11]
I therefore approve the finding and sentence of the military commission, and direct that the major-general in command of the department including the place of trial, and wherein the convict is now in custody, appoint a time and place and carry such sentence into execution. [7]
In this institution the convict can only be detained for the maximum term provided in the statute for his offense. [4]
In Australia and Tasmania they gave a convict fifty for almost any little offense; and sometimes a brutal officer would add fifty, and then another fifty, and so on, as long as the sufferer could endure the torture and live. [5]
As Louise had said, once on the way to Askatoon, he had even tried to make her kneel down in the dust of the trail and plead with Heaven to convict her of sin. [11]
In Tasmania I read the entry, in an old manuscript official record, of a case where a convict was given three hundred lashes--for stealing some silver spoons. [5]
Edward would make pathetic attempts to capture the role Shivers had appropriated, to be the practical party himself, to convict Shivers of idealism. [9]
But no court of law would convict her on that. [9]
And I am not of as much consideration at the Hall as Brady, the Irish convict, who has become overseer. [9]
As they could not convict me of the crime, and had yet determined on my ruin, I was sentenced to two days' and nights' exposure on the pillory. [10]
But he felt no anxiety concerning its solution; during the march he had the power to make the most reserved convict an open book. [10]
We learned on inquiry that it is practically impossible to get a jury to convict of murder in this region, and that these admitted felons would undoubtedly escape. [4]
It is as impudent and absurd as if a prosecuting attorney should stand up before a jury and ask them to convict A as the murderer of B, while B was walking alive before them. [7]
He says he has tried convict labor on his railroads, and with perfect success. [5]
Even if Crozier had not told the truth as it was, counsel for the defence would have found it impossible to convict him of falsehood. [11]
I expected to find you as wasted and thin as a convict from the quarries; I thought you would have been grieving and unhappy, and here you are as well, and handsome and portly as ever. [10]
He was an escaped convict from Freemantle, Western Australia. [11]
I entered as delicately as Agag, and the expression in his eye seemed to convict me before I could open my mouth. [9]
Alive pirate, a convict, as comrade in adventure, is not sugar in the teeth. [11]
Then she crept cautiously away among the bushes and along the narrow path, the eyes of the convict following her. [11]
No wonder that but one party, escaping from Macquarrie Harbor convict settlement, arrived at the civilized region in safety. [5]
It cost the British Government another $400,000 to convict him of perjury; and after the conviction the same old multitudes still believed in him; and among these believers were many educated and intelligent men; and some of them had personally known the real Sir Roger. [5]
We cannot convict both, for only one is guilty. [5]
All ways had been tried to convict the accused, and all had failed, thus far. [5]
Now it would be from Revelation, now out of the Psalms, and again a swingeing exhortation for the Spirit to come down and convict me of sin. [11]
To imperil an accused person by arbitrarily altering and widening the charge against him in order to compass his conviction when the charge as originally brought promises to fail to convict, is a thing unheard of before. [5]
Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief? [12]
Do you think a Congress of ours could convict the devil of anything if he were a member? [5]

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