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You will carry with you another thing, too--the affection of the scribes; for they all love you in spite of your crimes. [5]
A sin against the Holy Ghost--the worst of all crimes. [10]
It was plain that in these latter years they had become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. [5]
Some of these terrors were landscapes, some libeled the sea, some were ostensible portraits, all were crimes. [5]
It was a strange and terrible surprise to Dudley Veneer to find that his nephew, who had been an inmate of his house and the companion of his daughter, was to all intents and purposes guilty of the gravest of crimes. [6]
After thinking it over and over, I concluded that he would not disclose his crimes. [11]
He, if any one, may be forgiven for his tumultuous career; for when he pleases my brother's great qualities charm old and young alike, and are as conspicuous and as remarkable as his faults--nay, I will frankly say his crimes. [10]
Indeed, the most notorious criminal is the greatest legal advertisement, and the fortunate part of the business is that no lawyer is ever identified with the morals, crimes or virtues of his client, yet has particular advantage from his crimes. [11]
I had exhausted my family records, bit by bit, like a curate in his first parish; and had gone so far as to testify that one of my ancestors had been banished to Australia for political crimes. [11]
In America we make convicts useful at the same time that we punish them for their crimes. [5]

More example sentences with the word crimes in them

It would become you much better to repent of your crimes, and beg your old friend's forgiveness, instead of adding ingratitude to the unheard-of baseness of your other deeds. [10]
The early nobles, with all their crimes, were men who carved their way. [9]
We spent a whole afternoon going about here and there and yonder, and hunting up the scenes and talking of the crimes which we had committed so long ago. [5]
And the men who commit these crimes, especially their leader, assure themselves that this is admirable, this is glory--it resembles Caesar and Alexander the Great and is therefore good. [2]
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law. [4]
Surely self-preservation, that was the first law; surely no known code of human practice called upon him to share the daily crimes of any living soul--it was a daily repetition of his crime for this traitor to carry on the atrocious lie of patriotism. [11]
Robert F. had violated a monastery once; he had committed unprintable crimes since, and they had been permitted--under disapproval--but the ravishment of the monastery had not been forgotten nor forgiven, and the worm came at last. [5]
Utter licentiousness, and unnatural crimes, prevail to an astounding extent. [1]
She must be tried by priests for crimes against religion. [5]
Considering the crimes tried at the court in this town, Mazarine's got unusual faith in human nature; or else he feels himself pretty safe at Tralee. [11]
There may be too much disposition to condone the crimes of those who have been considered respectable. [4]
Have I not told you that the gods of the heathen are unreal beings which the vain imaginings of fools have endowed with all the weaknesses and crimes of humanity? [10]
Do you want to squander all your capital of crimes and follies on a single deal? [5]
Rough misdemeanours among them had been many, there had once been a murder in the parish, but the undefined horrors of infidelity were more shameful than crimes the eye could see. [11]
Do not all the crimes you have committed out of avarice weigh upon you heavily enough? [10]
I confess, madam, that I do something in the way of editing and lecturing, but the other crimes you mention have escaped my memory. [5]
We have seen that he seldom transgresses the laws against crimes of violence. [5]
He has asked that General Blunt shall not take persons charged with civil crimes out of the hands of the courts and turn them over to mobs to be hung; and I think he is right in this also. [7]
One feels drawn tenderly toward her and is moved to forget her many crimes and remember only the good deed that crowned and closed her career. [5]
What I have taken the liberty to make prominent are well chosen, clearly-proved crimes, worthy of death. [10]
Preachers, whose sensational sermons are as widely read as descriptions of great crimes, moralized on Henderson's career and Henderson's palace, and raised up everywhere an envied image of worldly prosperity. [4]
And when you say he has earned your gratitude for cuffing me for my crimes against the Leather stockings and the Vicar, I ain't making any objection. [5]
Suppose his taste runs to murders and abnormal crimes, and to the sensational in literature: what will be the moral effect upon a community of reading this year after year? [4]
Yet I had precedents of my own whereby I had set aside that law on two different occasions and thus succeeded in convicting criminals to whose crimes there were no witnesses but themselves. [5]
With murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do: he is a stranger to the hangman. [5]
Civil courts are organized chiefly for trials of individuals --or, at most, a few individuals acting in concert, and this in quiet times, and on charges of crimes well defined in the law. [7]
The Arab at once recognized his foe of the previous evening; but they soon came to a friendly understanding--Paula confessing her folly in holding a single and kindly-disposed man answerable for the crimes of a whole nation. [10]
Orion was accused of serious crimes, and his guests were to depart on the following day. [10]
Unconverted, they added new crimes to the old ones, but now retribution will overtake them. [10]
There was little mercy in his eyes as he answered: "Thy crimes sent to their death in the Nile those who never injured thee. [11]
He has committed many crimes, even murder; but he is in favor at the House of Seti, and they would willingly let him go unpunished. [10]
That I should live to be witness to such crimes! [10]
But with the less civilised nations reason often errs, and many bad customs and base superstitions come within the same scope, and are then esteemed as high virtues, and their breach as heavy crimes. [1]
Gabinius followed him into his writing-room, and there said with fulsome smoothness: "Ah, great Caesar, thus do the gods punish with a heavy hand the crimes of the guilty. [10]
I felt as if I had committed all those red crimes, and that the elephant was only my irresponsible agent. [5]
Phases of the history of the world flashed through her mind--Greek and Roman wars, dark, mediaeval times, the crimes in the name of religion. [13]
He found, on his return home, that the Vekeel's crimes far exceeded his worst fears. [10]
These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. [5]
Dupont thought upon his crimes now and then, and his heart hardened, for he had no moral feeling; Henderley did not think at all. [11]
The worst of his crimes had been performed with an air of humorous cynicism. [11]
Gaze upon him--ponder him well--and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them! [5]
Have you ever heard of King Euergetes, who, at his birth, was named the 'well-doer,' and who has earned that of the 'evil doer' by his crimes? [10]
At this moment he felt convinced, as he often had been, that the most atrocious of his crimes had been necessary and inevitable. [10]
The wicked servant, he declared, had committed crimes in direct opposition to the spirit and the letter of the Master. [10]
I expect--I expect," he added gravely, "that half the crimes oughtn't to be punished at all; for it's queer that things which hurt most can't be punished by law. [11]
All this they have done and, if I know him aright, he will turn his back upon men who have committed such crimes. [10]
We have no Hamards here, no French geniuses who can reconstruct crimes by a kind of special sense. [11]
This is a four-page paper; and as it is set in long primer leaded and has a page of advertisements, there is no room for the crimes, disasters, and general sweepings of the outside world--thanks be! [5]
There is Indian fighting; there are Indian depredations; and not a dozen miles from where I sit men have been shot for crimes committed. [11]
What did they feel, in their self-conscious virtue, when they talked of my crimes? [10]
His preserver, Klea's father, as the reward of his courageous action fared even worse; for here by the Nile virtues are punished in this world, as crimes are with you. [10]
It was their duty to judge heinous political crimes, and from their sentence there was no appeal. [5]
They would not dream of committing these strange crimes in private life. [5]
We perceive now, do we not, that the stomach is totally irresponsible for crimes committed, either in whole or in part, by it? [5]
Of course I didn't expect to get through without committing some crimes and hearing of them afterwards, so I have taken the inevitable lashings and been able to hum a tune while the punishment went on. [5]
It was Doctor Depew's business to get up there and apologise for the Dutch, and Mr. Choate had to get up later and explain the crimes of the Puritans, and grand, beautiful times we used to have. [5]
Our newspapers every day are loaded with accidents, casualties, and crimes concerning people of whom we never heard before and never shall hear again, the reading of which is of no earthly use to any human being. [4]
And aside from crimes, the vexation, the friction, the domestic discontent in life, are provoked by bad weather. [4]
Commit all the crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by-and-by you will be proof against them. [5]
That has many crimes to answer for, but not this one, I think. [5]
These poor disfigured creatures were indeed no unusual sight for Asiatics, who punished many crimes by the amputation of a limb. [10]
Thus the faithless creature should be disciplined, and the hypocrite, who had dared to make sport of him--the All-powerful--forced to atone for her crimes. [10]
I have also committed scores of crimes, of various kinds, and have enjoyed my work exceedingly, whereas it would formerly have broken my heart and turned my hair gray, I have no doubt. [5]
All great crimes committed in this war are associated with Alba's name, many smaller ones with yours, and so your father. [10]
Monstrous crimes are committed in its name by persons collectively which they would not dare to commit as individuals. [7]
Say he has committed a thousand crimes. [5]
Ours was a big general cell, it seemed, for the temporary accommodation of all comers whose crimes were trifling. [5]
Would it not be the basest of crimes, merely for the sake of the uncertain chance of flight, to bar the path to liberty of the youth whose natural protector he was? [10]
The Attorney-General stood at his desk, mechanically scanning the indictment read against prisoners charged with capital crimes. [11]
I sometimes wonder, as I open my morning paper, if nothing did happen in the twenty-four hours except crimes, accidents, defalcations, deaths of unknown loafers, robberies, monstrous births,--say about the level of police-court news. [4]
Deprived of power and authority, his crimes and his craft exposed, he should have appeared to them what he appeared ten years previously and one year later--an outlawed brigand. [2]
For Cauchon, without a tremor of pity in his voice, added these crushing words: "And that she may repent of her crimes and repeat them no more, she is sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, with the bread of affliction and the water of anguish! [5]
Perpetually fruitful--perpetually; for a property with his disposition will go on committing crimes and winning rewards. [5]
Thereupon she set a few questions to Buonespoir, whose replies, truthfully given, showed that he had no real estimate of his crimes, and was indifferent to what might be their penalties. [11]

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