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  • By sharing a small act of thoughtcrime he had turned the two of them into accomplices.   (source)
    accomplices = people who assisted each other in a task
  • In which case, MacQueen knew of the note and of its destruction--in other words, he was either the murderer or an accomplice of the murderer.   (source)
    accomplice = person who assisted
  • Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding his timid contrivances.   (source)
    accomplice = person who assisted in carrying out a plan
  • "Right, but there's so many possible accomplices.†   (source)
  • In any case, the letters in our possession made it clear that even if she did not bear the main responsibility for committing the murderous fantasies to paper, our daughter was at the very least a willing accomplice.†   (source)
  • Holy men who had once required sexual union with their female counterparts to commune with God now feared their natural sexual urges as the work of the devil, collaborating with his favorite accomplice… woman.†   (source)
  • The Specials had treated Tally like an accomplice.†   (source)
  • I was vexed by her thinking of me as an accomplice and didn't know what to say.†   (source)
  • Her heart pounding, Violet stood stock-still, wondering if Count Olaf or one of his accomplices would come and investigate.†   (source)
  • You will have the unpleasant task of listening to people who have committed crimes, who have lied and stolen, and in at least one instance has been an admitted, and let me emphasize this, an admitted accomplice to murder.†   (source)
  • Any word on the accomplice?†   (source)
  • Based on eyewitness accounts, police believe the boy may be traveling with two teenage accomplices.†   (source)
  • "He must have used an accomplice, then," said Harry.†   (source)
  • Any day, I thought, my luck would run out and I'd be killed, either by Goeth or by one of his accomplices.†   (source)
  • I saw the dummy as a kind of accomplice to my mother in her war against the night.†   (source)
  • "I'm an inventor," he grumbled, "I shouldn't have to lie and cheat and be that louse's accomplice!"†   (source)
  • My accomplice.†   (source)
  • If they got outside and away in the truck, she would smile and bang the steering wheel with the flat of her hand and call him her little accomplice.†   (source)
  • Apparently, we had accomplices.†   (source)
  • They had worked with a moving and storage company; with help from unknown accomplices inside the museum, they had concealed the explosives within the hollow, carpenter-built display platforms in the museum shops where the postcards and art books were stacked.†   (source)
  • Yes, you are all accomplices to the fall, and yes, we are gone forever.†   (source)
  • "She refuses to tell me how she came by these bones, and I am hoping her sly accomplice, this cabin boy of yours, might be more forthcoming!" said Miss Simpkins, patting at her hair.†   (source)
  • Of his three accomplices, he needed David Herold the most.†   (source)
  • Recognizing that even a doctor could not secure three bodies at once without raising suspicion, Mudgett and his accomplice agreed that each should contribute toward "the necessary supply."†   (source)
  • I crouch low in the seat, my stocking cap pulled low in hopes I won't be arrested as an accomplice to desanctifying the word of God.†   (source)
  • My chief object in visiting their department was to look at the celebrated murderess, Grace Marks, of whom I had heard a great deal, not only from the public papers, but from the gentleman who defended her upon her trial, and whose able pleading saved her from the gallows, on which her wretched accomplice closed his guilty career.†   (source)
  • You are accused of being his accomplice.†   (source)
  • One: Go is your accomplice, she was helping you hide this stuff on her property, and in all likelihood, she knows you killed Amy.†   (source)
  • She had raised her since the death of her mother, and in her relations with Lorenzo Daza she behaved more like an accomplice than an aunt.†   (source)
  • It was as if some secret accomplice had snuck in and sprung our inmate.†   (source)
  • An accomplice?†   (source)
  • Dewey-and the majority of his colleagues, as well-favored the second hypothesis, which in many essentials followed the first, the important difference being that the killer was not alone but had an accomplice, who helped subdue the family, tape, and tie them.†   (source)
  • This probably makes me an accomplice.†   (source)
  • Two other accomplices faked a fight and drew the guards' attention while the escapee unwound the rope and threw it up over the fence and down.†   (source)
  • Huerta of course was the secret accomplice.†   (source)
  • And I had these two fools in on the game, no one's choice for accomplices.†   (source)
  • You lie in wait, learn that patience is the killer's most trustworthy accomplice.†   (source)
  • That man is an accomplice, of course.†   (source)
  • While one held a pistol aimed shakily at Mortenson's chest, his accomplice emptied Mortenson's pockets.†   (source)
  • Milkman was a confidant, almost an accomplice.†   (source)
  • And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war against the Jews that Hitler's armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the Allies.†   (source)
  • You were a fine spy, Monsieur Song, with an even finer accomplice.†   (source)
  • Just some sort of mindless accomplice,' I confessed to her, confessed to myself.†   (source)
  • Russ Allen, a lifelong buddy and accomplice, offered the sound advice of a born writer in numerous late-night calls.†   (source)
  • But now the reporters interrogate me and the band separately, as though they're cops and they have me and my accomplices in adjacent cells and are trying to get us to implicate one another.†   (source)
  • At any moment I'll get a call from an accomplice demanding money.†   (source)
  • Defendant is punishable as an accomplice in the offense which was committed by another.†   (source)
  • … We can live with questionable tactics in time of war, but not with being accomplices in the slaughter of noncombatants and the diversion of funds totaling millions, both unknowingly paid for by the taxpayers.†   (source)
  • In Grace's eyes this made him an accomplice.†   (source)
  • When Changó found out, he tracked down his inept accomplice to the foot of a palm tree.†   (source)
  • If I'd told you, you would have had to choose between telling the Council I was still alive—and letting them hunt me—and keeping a secret that would make you an accomplice in their eyes.†   (source)
  • I will be considered his accomplice if he is successful.†   (source)
  • A worker saw him and grinned in understanding, like a fellow accomplice in a great celebration, who knew why that tall, blond figure had to be present here tonight.†   (source)
  • We are all here now because of these two men, but they are just accomplices.†   (source)
  • Either it had an accomplice of greater intelligence, or the monster possessed a considerable intellect of its own.†   (source)
  • If a governor of New York led a conspiracy, until the hostilities actually started, he could insure his accomplices entire impunity.†   (source)
  • As he is about to leave the hotel on his deadly errand, he realizes that his accomplices might be in need of firearms.†   (source)
  • We are accomplices.†   (source)
  • The King-(he pushes forward the POISONER/KING) tormented by guilt-haunted by fear —decides to despatch his nephew to England-and entrusts this undertaking to two smiling accomplices-friendscourtiers-to two spiesHe has swung round to bring together the POISONER/KING and the two cloaked TRAGEDIANS; the latter kneel and accept a scroll from the KING.†   (source)
  • Lying was the worst crime, the indispensable accomplice of all others, and would always bring the worst punishment.†   (source)
  • As if he had become an accomplice to the suffering provided me by the couple beyond the wall, my father rolled over with a sudden grunt and fell momentarily quiet, allowing my ears access to each nuance of that bliss.†   (source)
  • It is some years since I have been alone, nameless, friendless, without any of the safety one gets from family, friends, and accomplices.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I do not want to make him a genuine accomplice to what I do.†   (source)
  • Until then my fantasies were brothel fantasies of conquest and degradation, with the woman as the willing victim, the accomplice in her own degradation.†   (source)
  • Her accomplice laughed and slid out of the mirror as Lena bent to tear off a strip of paper.†   (source)
  • It was almost as if he were treating her as an accomplice.†   (source)
  • His department believes Maria was an accomplice.†   (source)
  • He had just been accomplice to stealing a priceless relic from the world's most private vault.†   (source)
  • Because if she knew what she was doing, Pudge, she made us accomplices.†   (source)
  • Fletcher knows how to avoid capture, has many hidey-holes and accomplices.†   (source)
  • Father and son saw the murderer and his accomplice and decided to help them.†   (source)
  • It was… it was… the P-Potter b-boy and the t-two accomplices…†   (source)
  • But I couldn't see Davis as his father's accomplice.†   (source)
  • Accomplices "There's enough time, if we hurry.†   (source)
  • The uniform makes him an accomplice in everything this girl hates.†   (source)
  • No one in the house knew that Powell had an accomplice waiting in the wings.†   (source)
  • Unknown to Mudd, he had just extended his hospitality to Lincoln's assassin and his accomplice.†   (source)
  • With Booth dead, and his chief accomplices under arrest, awaiting trial, it was time to cash in.†   (source)
  • He blamed drugs, he blamed the twenty-two-year-old accomplice, he blamed himself.†   (source)
  • From an accomplice and a communicative person he had become withdrawn and hostile.†   (source)
  • She was suspected of being an accomplice, her expertise necessary to the massive theft.†   (source)
  • The thought that these men were Mirza's accomplices hit Mortenson like a blow to the face.†   (source)
  • Sandberg is being held as an accomplice to the murder of Gunnar Björck.†   (source)
  • That was accomplice to murder, multiple murder.†   (source)
  • More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.†   (source)
  • Her male accomplice is a Belgian national from the Molenbeek district of Brussels.†   (source)
  • Go after the killer, not the accomplice.†   (source)
  • I was the accomplice to their addiction.†   (source)
  • You're confessing that you're an accomplice who's aiding and abetting a deserter?†   (source)
  • Yet she was and is an accomplice to his murder.†   (source)
  • Neither as your inspiration nor as your accomplice.†   (source)
  • "If I had to guess, I'd say she's back in Syria by now, along with her accomplice."†   (source)
  • In typical form she was soon cursing her accomplices under her breath.†   (source)
  • He suspected he would have a willing accomplice in the American president.†   (source)
  • In all likelihood, Amina would be charged as an accomplice and spend the rest of her life in jail.†   (source)
  • In the previous weeks, hundreds of his accomplices in the oppression of Panem have been tried and now await their own deaths.†   (source)
  • There must be a confederate, thinks Simon — some accomplice or apparatus, outside the door, under the table.†   (source)
  • He could have made an accomplice of his coachman, as did most of his friends at the Social Club, but that was not in his nature.†   (source)
  • Though he found no concrete evidence of arson, Cowie believed Holmes or an accomplice had started the fire.†   (source)
  • Thus Mr. Curtain must know that Sticky lied, and no doubt Reynie had been implicated as his accomplice.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaire youngsters looked around and saw that not only had Count Olaf vanished, but his accomplices—the wart-faced man, the hook-handed man, the bald man with the long nose, the enormous person who looked like neither a man nor a woman, and the two white-faced women—had vanished along with him.†   (source)
  • Although Langdon could not imagine the Judicial Police tangled up in the Holy Grail, he sensed too much coincidence tonight to disregard Fache as a possible accomplice.†   (source)
  • State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case.†   (source)
  • We all like* appreciation for our own hard work, of course … but you must have had an accomplice, all the same … someone in Hogsmeade, someone who was able to slip Katie the — the — aaaah Dumbledore closed his eyes again and nodded, as though he was about to fall asleep.†   (source)
  • And it was at this time that they called me McDermott's paramour, and also his accomplice; and they wrote also that I must have helped to strangle Nancy, as it would take two to do the job.†   (source)
  • Although his daughter was never aware of the premeditation in her destiny, she behaved as if she were an enthusiastic accomplice.†   (source)
  • Accomplices.†   (source)
  • Daisy just rolled her eyes, but I was in the spiral now, and I started to worry that Mr. Bitterley would figure out how to track down Daisy, that he would have her arrested, and maybe me, too, since I was probably an accomplice.†   (source)
  • But if this is a plot, if it's a trick, if you've got an accomplice waiting up there to ambush us, we'll see if we can spare a bit of your daughter for you to bury.†   (source)
  • Broadly stated, the plan called for Mudgett and his friend to recruit a couple of other accomplices, who together would fake the deaths of a family of three and substitute cadavers for each person.†   (source)
  • "Under the State's theory, Myers is an accomplice, and state law requires confirmation of accomplice testimony, which can only come from Hooks.†   (source)
  • At the same time, under similar circumstances, an accomplice purchased the shipment of boots for the left foot that had reached Riohacha.†   (source)
  • I argued that there was no credible corroboration of Myers's testimony and that under Alabama law the State couldn't rely exclusively on the testimony of an accomplice.†   (source)
  • In summary, an African American man planning a robbery-murder in the heart of Monroeville in the middle of the day stops at a gas station and randomly selects a white man to become his accomplice by asking him to drive him to and from the crime scene because his arm is injured, even though he had been able to drive himself to the gas station where he encountered Myers and to drive his truck home after returning Myers to the gas station.†   (source)
  • He thought that all the moments in the day, which had once been his allies and sworn accomplices, were beginning to conspire against him.†   (source)
  • He regretted abandoning his accomplice, but when he heard the screaming girl at the window, Herold decided to save himself.†   (source)
  • She distributed her gifts of pleasure as far as her body could reach, and although her indecent conduct was public knowledge, no one could have made a definitive case against her, because her eminent accomplices gave her the same protection they gave themselves, knowing that they had more to lose in a scandal than she did.†   (source)
  • All he had to do was tell the soldiers that John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice were hiding at his farm.†   (source)
  • Now, by offering Booth his hospitality, he had unknowingly made himself an accomplice in the most shocking crime in all of American history — the murder of the president of the United States!†   (source)
  • He attempted to recruit accomplices in New York City, a place where there were many Lincoln-haters and Confederate sympathizers.†   (source)
  • Yes, the police, detectives, and officers had found a number of leads on Booth's accomplices, but none led to Booth.†   (source)
  • The evidence already collected by April 15 confirmed that it was Booth who had shot Lincoln, and that he seemed to have several accomplices.†   (source)
  • In the days to follow, newly sworn-in President Johnson left it to Stanton to bring Lincoln's killer and his accomplices to justice.†   (source)
  • "With accomplices, she could have slipped out of the country, but it's more probable that she's gone to ground."†   (source)
  • "Fredrik Clinton, you are under arrest as an accomplice to murder, for attempted murder, and for a long list of further crimes," she said.†   (source)
  • We're discussing the possibility that she had an accomplice, or that she was somehow drawn into all this against her will.†   (source)
  • A few blocks away, detectives question Secretary of State Seward's household staff, which adds two more nameless individuals to the list: the man who attacked Seward and his accomplice, who was seen waiting outside.†   (source)
  • Nye had called on all the reported victims-salesmen of cameras and of radio and television equipment, the proprietor of a jewelry shop, a clerk in a clothing store-and when in each instance the witness was shown photographs of Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, he had identified the former as the author of the spurious checks, the latter as his "silent" accomplice.†   (source)
  • A council to an executive, who is responsible for what he does, clogs his good intentions, becomes accomplices of his bad deeds, and almost always is a cloak to his faults.†   (source)
  • Jonas Sandberg, you are under arrest as a suspect and accessory to the murders of Gunnar Björck and Alexander Zalachenko, and as an accomplice in the attempted murders of Mikael Blomkvist and Erika Berger.†   (source)
  • "It's possible, of course, that Salander didn't act alone, but we have no forensic trace of any accomplice."†   (source)
  • Then she began to laugh with her lips tight together, without giving up the fight, but defending herself with false bites and deweaseling her body little by little until they both were conscious of being adversaries and accomplices at the same time and the affray degenerated into a conventional gambol and the attacks became caresses.†   (source)
  • Since Wu hadn't surfaced during that first dramatic week, there was speculation that she too might have fallen victim to Salander's violence or that she could have been an accomplice.†   (source)
  • She noticed, indifferently, the air of knowing slyness in the manner of the hotel clerks, which seemed to suggest that guests and clerks alike were accomplices in a shameful guilt: the guilt of seeking pleasure.†   (source)
  • Above all, people in high places within Säpo will be exposed as accomplices in criminal and immoral activities.†   (source)
  • Or someone from the outside could drop it on the edge of the prison property where there was a public road; the recipient had to either work for the grounds department or have an accomplice in grounds who would grab the package.†   (source)
  • Therefore I want us to expand our thinking a bit, to consider alternative killers and the possibility that Salander herself may have had an accomplice or merely have been present when the shots were fired.†   (source)
  • Later, after analyzing all available video images, they concluded that the accomplice was in fact a woman.†   (source)
  • But I want to know whether there's another side to the story—whether there's some accomplice we don't know about, someone who may have been the one actually holding the gun, or whether there are any other as yet unknown circumstances."†   (source)
  • He drove the streets of central Paris—aimlessly, or so it appeared—until nine twenty, when he picked up an accomplice outside the Gare du Nord.†   (source)
  • Her seatmate was the gray-eyed man with bloodless skin, and across the aisle were her pockmarked interrogator and his wispy-haired accomplice.†   (source)
  • The Syrian air force and their Russian accomplices bombed by day, the Americans and their coalition partners by night.†   (source)
  • She was shown this mercy because she was judged an incidental accomplice only, one misled by Kubera, whom she had trusted.†   (source)
  • But the fact of the matter is that at Auschwitz (and this she came gradually to confess to me that summer) she had been a victim, yes, but both victim and accomplice, accessory—however haphazard and ambiguous and uncalculating her design—to the mass slaughter whose sickening vaporous residue spiraled skyward from the chimneys of Birkenau whenever she peered out across the parched autumnal meadows from the windows of the mansard roof of the house of her captor, Rudolf Hoss.†   (source)
  • You can't say he's an accomplice-homicidal lunatics don't have accomplices!†   (source)
  • Of a lonely man who hated loneliness it has made an accomplice.†   (source)
  • Everything goes to show that there was an accomplice inside the house.†   (source)
  • You can't say he's an accomplice-homicidal lunatics don't have accomplices!†   (source)
  • Clearly I have the right to refuse to become—well, a sort of accomplice.†   (source)
  • Yes, 'accomplice' is the word that fits, and doesn't he relish his complicity!†   (source)
  • But if so, then the maid must be an accomplice.†   (source)
  • And if she were an accomplice, she would not wish this point to rest on her evidence alone.†   (source)
  • "An accomplice?" suggested the Assistant Commissioner.†   (source)
  • The only question is, was the maid an accomplice?†   (source)
  • My own friends came, of course, and the curious accomplices Rex called his friends; the rest of the party were very oddly assorted.†   (source)
  • It would seem that a native, probably with two accomplices, entered by the kitchen, thinking no doubt that there would be no one in the house.†   (source)
  • He knew about B girls and how the hip-chicks operated in the big hotels; a book he read often was the autobiography of Chicago May, who used to throw her escorts' clothes out of the window to her accomplice in the alley, and was a very remarkable woman.†   (source)
  • I thought there was only one person who had ever called him Max… As I stood there in the hall, undecided about my tea, wondering what to do, the thought suddenly came to me that perhaps Mrs Danvers was dishonest, that all this time she was engaged in some business behind Maxim's back, and coming back early as I had today I had discovered her and this man, an accomplice, who had then bluffed his way out by pretending to be familiar with the house and with Maxim.†   (source)
  • There is one type for which his desire is such as to be naturally amenable to the Enemy--readily mixed with charity, readily obedient to marriage, coloured all through with that golden light of reverence and naturalness which we detest; there is another type which he desires brutally, and desires to desire brutally, a type best used to draw him away from marriage altogether but which, even within marriage, he would tend to treat as a slave, an idol, or an accomplice.†   (source)
  • She stood for a few heartheats, feeling the wild blood surge in her neck, then went silently to the window— the silence of an accomplice.†   (source)
  • "My friends," was his remark—the one to appear in all the papers—"I refuse to be an accomplice in the manufacturing of martyrs."†   (source)
  • Yet one of his accomplices cruelly struck down the native servant, and one must suppose that the servant might easily have been killed.†   (source)
  • At Taunton she leaves the train and returns to Bristol as soon as possible, where her accomplice has duly left the luggage in the cloakroom.†   (source)
  • She and her accomplice chloroform and stab Mrs Carrington between London and Bristol, probably taking advantage of a tunnel.†   (source)
  • Now, Mr Halliday, let me introduce you to Gracie Kidd, otherwise Jane Mason, who will shortly rejoin her accomplice, Red Narky, under the kind escort of Inspector Japp.†   (source)
  • But, to the Oriental mind, it was infinitely simpler to kill Wu Ling and throw his body into the river, and Pearson's Chinese accomplices followed their own methods without consulting him.†   (source)
  • And the day was the accomplice of her mood: it was a day for impulse and truancy.†   (source)
  • I KNOW you haven't read it, and that you could never be that man's accomplice.†   (source)
  • You, of course, saw that everyone in the street was an accomplice.†   (source)
  • He wanted an ally, a helper, an accomplice.†   (source)
  • The name of the man whose accomplice you are, Mme. Giry!†   (source)
  • They turn upon those accomplices and upbraid them and curse them.†   (source)
  • The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair.†   (source)
  • Whether he had any accomplices, or whatever the thing is called in the law?†   (source)
  • That Passepartout was not Fogg's accomplice, he was very certain.†   (source)
  • "No, no," said Mrs. Shelby; "I'll be in no sense accomplice or help in this cruel business.†   (source)
  • Nay, I believe I must share in the crime and the penalty, for I was an accomplice throughout.†   (source)
  • Responsible or not, he was equally an accomplice of his detestably mischievous daughter.†   (source)
  • "And did you not remonstrate against such infamy?" asked the abbe; "if not, you were an accomplice."†   (source)
  • They accused him of having had the pocketbook brought back by an accomplice, by a confederate.†   (source)
  • 'And was the fellow-prisoner his accomplice and a murderer, too?†   (source)
  • They believe me her accomplice, and will punish me with her.†   (source)
  • Yes, and one hand, which will always be mine—the hand of my accomplice.†   (source)
  • He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least an eyewitness to his vengeance!†   (source)
  • Which makes him your accomplice to all intents and purposes.†   (source)
  • "They'll think I am an accomplice, because I let him know the signals as a great secret."†   (source)
  • If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on.†   (source)
  • What part was he playing in all this: was he an accomplice or not?†   (source)
  • He was doubtless the first lover and accomplice of the fair lady.†   (source)
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