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Sentences starting with guilty

Guilty or not guilty? [9]

Sentences ending with guilty

That hired man was probably regarded with suspicion by the family to the end of his days, and if he had been accused of robbing, they would have believed him guilty. [4]
The district attorney was ill, and assigned the prosecution to a mild assistant; while a sceptical jury--composed largely of gentlemen who had the business interests of the community, and of themselves, at heart returned a verdict of "not guilty. [9]
I knew he was guilty. [11]
I don't take to men often, and to convicts precious seldom; but there was a look in this man's face which the prison clothes couldn't demoralise--a damned pathetic look, which seemed to say, 'Not guilty. [11]
Take care that the rope hangs about the neck of the guilty. [10]
At first all the New York streets looked to them ill-paved, dirty, and repulsive; the general infamy imparted itself in their casual impression to streets in no wise guilty. [8]
Laura stood while the long indictment was read; and at the end, in response to the inquiry, of the judge, she said in a clear, low voice; "Not guilty. [5]
Both sisters were said to be guilty. [10]
There seemed no reason why the trial should have dragged on all day, for I soon saw it was intended to find me guilty. [11]
Nitetis has been proved guilty. [10]

Short sentences using guilty

Not guilty of it! [5]
He is guilty, isn't he? [11]
The jury found him guilty. [11]
Great Neptune, ain't he guilty? [5]
Prince, thou art guilty. [11]
I am the guilty one. [10]
You're as guilty as hell! [11]
I feel guilty and ashamed. [5]
I am guilty! [5]
Guilty! [11]

Sentences containing guilty two or more times

The owners of that boat were not technically guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, but they were morally guilty of it. [5]
By it the innocent are proved innocent, without doubt or question, for they drown; and the guilty are proven guilty with the same certainty, for they do not drown. [5]
You have been guilty of a great crime; and don't you ever be guilty of it again, on this boat. [5]

More example sentences with the word guilty in them

By its terms you, the guilty one, go free with the innocent. [5]
Clear out with you!--you've been guilty of a great crime, you whelp! [5]
But what madness you were guilty of, what cruel madness! [11]
So you knew you were guilty of sin in going without their leave! [5]
Need I tell you that I am a lost and despised man if I am found guilty of this act of the maddest folly by the judges of my own house? [10]
I won't tell you how guilty you are. [2]
They haven't proved you guilty yet. [11]
Then, just as you begin to half hope he is going to discover the cause of it and launch hot bolts of wrath at the guilty manufacturers of it, you have to turn away disappointed. [5]
Not one single word of evidence had the defence brought to discredit Crozier, save by Crozier's own word of mouth; and if Crozier had cared to commit perjury, the defence could not have proved him guilty of it. [11]
He was a wild young fellow, and was guilty of various kinds of misbehavior. [5]
Mr. Paul Pardriff, who had a guilty conscience about the clipping, and vividly bearing in mind Mr. Blodgett's mishap, alone avoided young Mr. Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. [9]
The public opinion which sustains these deeds is as un-American, and as guilty as their doers. [4]
If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
No, if she was worshiped, it was enough; she was guilty of mortal sin. [5]
A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
He, as judge, was no less averse to letting off the guilty than he was to punishing the innocent; so the enquiry must be allowed to proceed quietly. [10]
I said, "He was guilty, and he lied to me! [5]
More specifically, she was guilty of contours fortement prononces,--corsage de paysanne,--quelque chose de sauvage, etc., etc. [6]
It was a trying five minutes for King, who felt as guilty, as if the White Sulphur were private property into which he had intruded without an invitation. [4]
If he should try her at noon and find her guilty, there was nothing to prevent him from compelling her to drink the poisoned cup or having her strangled before evening. [10]
A host of torturing thoughts haunted her unbidden; they were not to be exorcised, and added to her misery: Neforis dead; the residence in the hands of the Arabs; Orion bereft of his possessions and held guilty of a capital crime. [10]
If it was to your credit, even if they believe you guilty of killing Erris Boyne, they'd touch you lightly. [11]
She was horrified to think how near she had come to being guilty herself; she had been saved in the nick of time by a revival in the colored Methodist Church, a fortnight before, at which time and place she "got religion. [5]
It grieves me to tell you, sir, that young as you are you have been guilty of treason against the King, and of grave offence against his Lordship's government. [9]
It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary. [2]
I believe myself to be guilty of no such thing as the latter, though, of course, I cannot claim that I am entirely free from all error in the opinions I advance. [7]
It is, however, to be expected, that retributive justice would visit the innocent as well as the guilty of an offending family. [4]
Sobbing aloud, she threw herself at his feet, confessed that she was guilty, and remorsefully admitted that fear of his resentment, which seemed to her more terrible than death, had induced her to deny what she had done. [10]
You haf nefer thought of it; boat I have thought, and I should be Guilty, I must share that man's Guilt, if I gept hiss mawney. [8]
It is as though the leaves from the tree of my life had all dropped on the ground--nay, as though my own guilty hand had torn them from the stem. [10]
Whether or not those who countenance Homoeopathy are guilty of this injustice towards others, the second of these Lectures may afford them some means of determining. [6]
And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
I'll continue to think you guilty until you are shown to be innocent. [9]
And why if they were guilty of not carrying out a prearranged plan were they not tried and punished? [2]
All who bore these titles were to him objects of hatred, for a patrician and a prefect had been guilty of the blood of those he had held most dear. [10]
When they returned, the verdict was given: "Not guilty, your Honour! [11]
Though it gave the Vekeel no inculpating evidence against Orion it pointed to his connection with the guilty parties: Paula, doubtless, had been concerned in the scheme which had cost the lives of so many brave Moslems. [10]
Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
The report that the jury have brought her in guilty is false and premature. [5]
The face of the guilty woman, who had defrauded him of the happiness of his life, gazed at him from the banner. [10]
This dread seized the guilty mother with irresistible power, and she wondered that the cheeks of the little sleepers were not already glowing with fever. [10]
I won't deny that sometimes, on rare occasions, when I have been in company with gentlemen who preferred listening, I have been guilty of the same kind of usurpation which my friend openly justified. [6]
We tell you that if any member of the Republican party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. [7]
I haven't seen that guilty expression on your face since we were at college together. [9]
Besides this the terror which he had gone through, as well as the consciousness that he had been guilty of a lie and had daringly deceived his kind master, had upset a soul hitherto untainted by any subterfuge and had thrown him off his balance. [10]
Besides, he was surely aware that, had he been obliged to answer Thyone in words, he would not have been guilty of the falsehood. [10]
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]
Mademoiselle George looked sternly and gloomily at the audience and began reciting some French verses describing her guilty love for her son. [2]
And from another standpoint, though the prisoner merited any fate reserved for him, if guilty of spying, he could not forget that his life had been saved by this British captain--an obligation which, unfortunately, he could neither repay nor wipe out. [11]
He had not spoken a word, but he felt as guilty as if she had caught him in some shameful act. [5]
Please forward as soon as possible the full and complete record of their convictions; and if the record does not fully indicate the more guilty and influential of the culprits, please have a careful statement made on these points and forwarded to me. [7]
A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared look. [2]
I suppose he sold that stock of mine and placed the guilty proceeds in his own pocket. [5]
Of one thing she was sure, that it would not be right at this time to encourage him although she had a guilty feeling that the letter had given him encouragement in spite of all the prohibitions it contained. [9]
In one literal sense, Eglington was not guilty of deceit. [11]
But nothing could save him; he was found guilty of misprision of treason, and degraded from his office, and all his property was confiscated. [5]
And the natural result has fallen to me likewise--for a guilty conscience has harassed me ever since, and I have not had one short quarter of an hour of peace to this moment. [5]
You, an Englishman, remain in the service of the man who is guilty of such a crime! [11]
He who henceforth refuses to obey, or is unmindful of the reverence due to the king, is guilty of death! [10]
A man is presumed innocent until he is proved guilty. [3]
Never within the peace of his realm, nay and under his very eyes, had so much noble blood been shed in base brawling as here in our sober city, and he would forthwith make an example of the guilty men. [10]
He, the guilty party, is absolved from all suffering; you, the innocent, are borne down with it. [5]
There were evening parties, too, where I felt like an alien, though my friends were guilty of no conscious neglect; and had I been able to accept the situation simply, I should not have suffered. [9]
It was brought on you by your father, but you must be the more innocent because he was so guilty. [11]
But if, instead of sympathizing with the situation of his workman, he forms a combination with all the mills of his sort, and reduces wages merely to increase his gains, he is guilty of an act as worthy of indictment as the strike. [4]
If any member of our party is guilty in that matter you know it or you do not know it. [7]
She is guilty of little awkwardnesses of expression in the Autobiography which a practiced pen would hardly allow to go uncorrected in even a hasty private letter, and could not dream of passing by uncorrected in passages intended for print. [5]
They were guilty of death to the last man, and starvation was to perform the executioner's office upon them. [10]
How guilty she now felt, where, indeed, no guilt was! [11]
That they did not, in such a case, make far greater gains, proves that they did not, with guilty or fraudulent intent, make at all. [7]
The prisoner had not sought to prove an alibi; he had done no more than formally plead not guilty. [11]
The Street did not know the guilty secret between Mavick and his wife that made them cowards to each other. [4]
I also will not believe that your fate is an evil one, that the law will grind you between the millstones of guilt and dishonour; but if the law should call you guilty, I still will not believe. [11]
And so they nodded invisibly and smiled inwardly with satisfaction, and looked to see this foolish lad stricken with a palsy of guilty confusion. [5]
Nicholas was allowed no respite and no peace, and those who had seemed to pity the old man--the cause of their losses (if they were losses)--now remorselessly pursued the young heir who had voluntarily undertaken the debts and was obviously not guilty of contracting them. [2]
It would be no relief to my neck that they discovered this other man who charged the crime upon me to be guilty too. [7]
I am glad, my sons, that I shall not outlive you, and shall die an innocent man by the side of the guilty. [10]
I insist, for my own protection and that of my daughter, as well as for that of the others present that, since he refuses to speak, we must presume him guilty and turn him over. [9]
Is that Being my friend, who suffers me to be born and to grow up, and leaves me tied to the martyr's stake, with very few real joys, and finally kills me, innocent or guilty, as surely as I am born? [10]
After the father's murder the seducer had married the guilty mother. [4]
We are always most sensitive when guilty concerning the spirit and not the letter. [11]
I am no more guilty than any one of you. [12]
He saw twelve men file slowly into the room and take their seats-all save one, who stood still in his place and said: "Not guilty, your Honour! [11]
If these guilty men are seized, can the army be trusted? [11]
Which of us looks the guilty person--he, or I? [12]
I will keep looking back to the prison where lies, charged with an evil crime, of which he is not guilty, a young man for whom I shall always carry the spirit of good friendship. [11]
Sonya and Natasha looked at Vera with guilty, happy faces. [2]
I care but little for the vanity of those who would chide me, and am unwilling as well as shamed to be guilty of anything that would lead you to think 'all is not gold that glitters'; so be not rash in your resolution. [5]
I care but little for the vanity of those who would chide me, and am unwilling as well as ashamed to be guilty of anything that would lead you to think 'all is not gold that glitters'; so be no rash in your resolution. [5]
He knew the law well enough, and knew that the old man would be compelled without respite or delay to empty the cup of poison if he were found guilty of the theft of a human heart. [10]
Why you all know he's guilty. [5]
By this finding, Joan was guilty upon all the counts: she must renounce her errors and make satisfaction, or be abandoned to the secular arm for punishment. [5]
If she delayed it, she would be making him guilty of a fresh crime by allowing two blameless men to perish in misery. [10]
Now, all this is very natural if they are all alike guilty in that fraud, and it is very unnatural if any one of them is innocent. [7]
Which of you is the guilty one? [5]
If Hosea's mission is successful his people will return--the guilty with the innocent--and the latter will suffer. [10]
And one only is guilty of all this ruin--the noblest gentleman in Thebes--the pious Assa. [10]
This Jacob Fuller is a cousin of the guilty one. [5]
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]
He was then informed that he was to be held in captivity by the special orders of the head of the police, till his son Alexander, who was guilty of high-treason, should surrender to the authorities. [10]

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