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  • There's an ongoing investigation, but she has not been indicted.
  • Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn't indict.   (source)
    indict = officially charge with a crime
  • …absence of any corroborative evidence, this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life….   (source)
    indicted = formally accused
  • My memories of them became ominous, indicting.†   (source)
  • Indicting Darnell was a worrisome signal that they were willing to threaten and intimidate people.†   (source)
  • I don't like the way they follow me with their eyes, indicting me, as if being close to Pilar or Tía will somehow contaminate me.†   (source)
  • Deacon would tell anyone who'd listen that it was Landers's fault, that Landers had been sloppy, or that Landers had talked Deacon into indicting Angel without enough evidence for a conviction.†   (source)
  • If you're just tuning in, the grand jury has decided not to indict Officer Brian Cruise Jr. in the death of Khalil Harris.   (source)
    indict = charge with a crime
  • But if they decide not to indict, y'all gotta tell these li'l dudes not to burn this neighborhood down.   (source)
  • On my way to his office, I decided to give him a chance to explain what was going on, instead of angrily complaining about the insanity of indicting someone for perjury because he had contradicted a State's witness.†   (source)
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  • His new duties, their importance, the possibility of indicting and imprisoning anyone he chose, the publicity his speeches received, and the success he had in all these things, made his work still more attractive.†   (source)
  • Other Powers Granted To American Judges The United States all the citizens have the right of indicting public functionaries before the ordinary tribunals—How they use this right—Art.†   (source)
  • The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.†   (source)
  • It is perfectly natural that in a free country like America all the citizens should have the right of indicting public functionaries before the ordinary tribunals, and that all the judges should have the power of punishing public offences.†   (source)
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  • She indicted the church for being hypocritical.
    indicted = criticized or condemned
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  • These would be distilled into an 84-count indictment.†   (source)
  • Pickett himself hadn't yet been charged, although an editorial in the paper from three days before his disappearance criticized the authorities: "The Indianapolis Star Has Enough Evidence to Indict Russell Pickett; Why Don't the Authorities?"†   (source)
  • Mamaw saw every ballot failure of the local school improvement tax (and there were many) as an indictment of our society's failure to provide a quality education to kids like me.†   (source)
  • That this is an indictment of the Church?†   (source)
  • When the indictment was announced, there was joy and relief in the community that someone had been charged.†   (source)
  • Not even a felony indictment.†   (source)
  • He counted trash in the fields as a moral indictment.†   (source)
  • But whatever I said would be a self-indictment; others would have to fight for me.†   (source)
  • If she was delivering the bitter indictment Robbie deserved to hear, it did not show on his face.†   (source)
  • The Kentucky legislator Harry Caudill once looked in a circuit court clerk's office in one Cumberland Plateau town and found one thousand murder indictments stretching from the end of the Civil War, in the 1860s, to the beginning of the twentieth century, and this for a region that never numbered more than fifteen thousand people and where many violent acts never even made it to the indictment stage.†   (source)
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  • He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property.†   (source)
  • Aunt Carol thinks that's the reason her heart gave out only a few months after her husband's disappearance, when she was indicted in his place.†   (source)
  • Gienelli has been indicted twenty-three times, tried fourteen times, and convicted only once, for shoplifting in 1940.†   (source)
  • Indianapolis indicted Holmes for the murder of Howard Pitezel, Toronto for the murders of Alice and Nellie.†   (source)
  • Now instead of being a mere ail-ment, his condition becomes an indictment of parental misdeeds (a strong thematic statement in its own right) and, as we latter-day cynics can recognize, a coded reference to an entirely different pair of letters.†   (source)
  • Later, there would be indictments, arrests.†   (source)
  • In 1947, GM and a number of its allies in the scheme were indicted on federal antitrust charges.†   (source)
  • It's an indictment against the use of deadly force which has been the principal means this society uses against those it cannot accommodate (as I write this, Rodney King's beating by the LAPD continues to play itself out throughout the country.†   (source)
  • They strike me as polemical, as angry indictments of Afghan gender roles.†   (source)
  • Like mayors before him, he's aware of the problems, but there's been little political advantage in doing something about them because they haven't been spread across page one of the newspaper in quite this way, an indictment of indifference and a call to conscience.†   (source)
  • Because I believed in the critic's sincerity and his concern for not involving Hopkins in any extraordinary and heroic ventures, I never took his arguments as personal indictments.†   (source)
  • Atticus had two weighty advantages: although the white girl was fourteen years of age the defendant was not indicted for statutory rape, therefore Atticus could and did prove consent.†   (source)
  • "Does that mean you're holding to the story that prompted the indictment?"†   (source)
  • In the solitary, comfortless course of his recent driftings, Perry had over and over again reviewed this indictment, and had decided it was unjust.†   (source)
  • This wasn't a surprise to Diana-why would Jordan want the whole world to hear his client being indicted on ten separate counts of first-degree murder?†   (source)
  • Chief Joyi's war stories and his indictment of the British made me feel angry and cheated, as though I had already been robbed of my own birthright.†   (source)
  • "I think we're finally going to be able to indict.†   (source)
  • He went into exile in Nigeria, was indicted for war crimes by the UN, and was eventually captured in an SUV stashed with cash and heroin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border.†   (source)
  • He is a lean, intense young man in his middle thirties, inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits—and always in his voice there is a quality of indictment) WALTER: Is he out yet?†   (source)
  • "So, I asked Tepper," he continued, "what the indictment looked like and he said they have you listed for fifteen five-year charges.†   (source)
  • Over the years the gang endured bloody turf wars and, eventually, a federal indictment.†   (source)
  • My indictment in federal court for criminal conspiracy had been triggered by the collapse of my ex-lover's drugsmuggling operation.†   (source)
  • "Pursuant to your request," it read in part, "this is to advise you that the above-mentioned captioned defendant has been indicted by the grand jury."†   (source)
  • "I was never indicted," said Magwich.†   (source)
  • But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.†   (source)
  • Had he been indicted?†   (source)
  • He delivered the scathing indictment and closed the door.†   (source)
  • Reed's letter was a stunning indictment of Washington.†   (source)
  • "You might try to operate from Hong Kong or Macao-they'd welcome your money, but with the problems they currently have with the Mainland's markets and the Sino-British Treaty of '97, they'd probably frown on your indictments.†   (source)
  • She was using my fingernails to indict my soul.†   (source)
  • In 1998, DEVGRU operators tracked Bosnian war criminals, including Radislav Krstic, the Bosnian general who was later indicted for his role in the Srebrenica massacre of 1995.†   (source)
  • Nat Taggart was indicted for the murder, but the charge could never be proved.†   (source)
  • …when he was a graduate student in the 1940s, when "people were not going around saying 'Come to dinner with Bill and I,' or 'hopefully it won't rain tomorrow' " To explain what started the language "on a downhill course," he offered a sweeping indictment of students, teachers, women, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, advertisers, television, and the permissive revolution of the sixties, which dealt education "four great body blows": (1) the student rebellion of 1968, which, in essence,…†   (source)
  • I was in and out of police courts and higher courts, and indictments hung over my life for several years.†   (source)
  • Officers can be indicted and punished.†   (source)
  • The document containing the charges against Socrates survived until at least the second century C.E. Diogenes Laertius reports the charges as recorded in the now-lost document: This indictment and affidavit is sworn by Meletus, the son of Meletus of Pitthos, against Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus of Alopece: Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, and of introducing new divinities.†   (source)
  • We'll take it in front of the grand jury, get an indictment, and go arrest the girl.†   (source)
  • "They believe there's a good chance you will charge him, but that he won't be indicted."†   (source)
  • To put it bluntly, you appear to be guilty of treason against the Great Charter, indeed against all humanity …. and an indictment is being considered.†   (source)
  • If I so much as say an unkind word to a terrorist, I'll be indicted.†   (source)
  • He could hear snickers and hoots as the indictments were read.†   (source)
  • If there was any doubt as to how "Southern Justice" operates in the State of Mississippi, it was completely dispelled … when the Pearl River County Grand Jury failed to return any indictments or even consider the massive information compiled by the FBI in the sensational Mack Parker kidnap-lynch murder case….†   (source)
  • She knew it was the rough draft of The Profession v. Perry Mason, A Not-so-hypothetical Indictment, and had been in progress for as long as the TV show had been on the air.†   (source)
  • When this sovereign state determined to indict The sovereign mind of a less-than-sovereign schoolteacher, My editors decided there was more than a headline here.†   (source)
  • Now, in a single moment, I had to retract my sweeping indictment of TV: it had not failed completely, only partially.†   (source)
  • He was really pleased when he was indicted by a stern and frightened jury.†   (source)
  • She was a living indictment of the age.†   (source)
  • In opposition to Butler's inflammatory arguments in support of this hastily drawn indictment, Johnson's able and learned counsel replied with considerable effectiveness.†   (source)
  • Now that the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will discharge my mind …. concerning my indictment and the King's title.†   (source)
  • Every indictor tab in Vault 10 carried the same keyword.†   (source)
  • So if Saunière knew the person who killed him, what kind of indictment is this?†   (source)
  • She had come to see that, without intending to, it delivered a significant personal indictment.†   (source)
  • It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.†   (source)
  • A few days after the indictment, Danny Hansford's mother sued Williams for $10,003,500.†   (source)
  • "Well, you've indicted someone for perjury for contradicting the state's case.†   (source)
  • "When you were indicted, why didn't you defend yourself?"†   (source)
  • He was also facing indictment in the Morrison murder.†   (source)
  • Failing that, he would almost certainly be indicted.†   (source)
  • It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.†   (source)
  • Cabey was, at the time, under indictment for armed robbery.†   (source)
  • Then a crime would have been committed and an indictment could be brought.†   (source)
  • What if the Feds found out he had them—perhaps he'd be indicted too?†   (source)
  • "I've been indicted in federal court for money laundering and drug trafficking."†   (source)
  • I came to speak to you about your indictment.†   (source)
  • The state redrew their indictment and we were back in court in early December.†   (source)
  • "Cleveland's ready to indict," I told them.†   (source)
  • Commingling client funds, but no indictment.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it's going to come to an indictment.†   (source)
  • Do you waive the formal reading of the indictment?†   (source)
  • On an eight-count indictment, Madison pled not guilty.†   (source)
  • Rearden and Danagger were indicted this morning-for an illegal sale of Rearden Metal.†   (source)
  • De Wet then quashed the indictment and gaveled the session to a close.†   (source)
  • If you weren't ready to prosecute her, you shouldn't have indicted her.†   (source)
  • "Tomorrow, I'm going to the district attorney for an indictment," McBride announced.†   (source)
  • His wife and two daughters were still waiting, as was an indictment.†   (source)
  • By now more than five years had passed since I had been indicted.†   (source)
  • "I'm handing Mr. Dillard a copy of the indictment:' Glass said.†   (source)
  • This was the first time we were given a copy of the indictment.†   (source)
  • I was there, in the courtroom in Philadelphia, when they read the indictment.†   (source)
  • The state had been preparing for three months, but we had only received the indictment that day.†   (source)
  • Yutar handed in the indictment and authorized that we be charged immediately and tried summarily.†   (source)
  • Another of the allegations in the indictment is that Rivonia was the headquarters of Umkhonto.†   (source)
  • The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God.†   (source)
  • He told me the Mississippi jury refused to indict in the Parker lynch case.†   (source)
  • She wished she were white, which one could interpret as an indictment of our society.†   (source)
  • Indictments were issued.†   (source)
  • Like reading aloud your own indictment.†   (source)
  • ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1895, a Philadelphia grand jury voted to indict Holmes for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel.†   (source)
  • The new voice spoke without rushing and exclaiming, and when it said, "You're a fool, Sukkhi," which it did quite often, a laugh prologued the indictment.†   (source)
  • The Kentucky legislator Harry Caudill once looked in a circuit court clerk's office in one Cumberland Plateau town and found one thousand murder indictments stretching from the end of the Civil War, in the 1860s, to the beginning of the twentieth century, and this for a region that never numbered more than fifteen thousand people and where many violent acts never even made it to the indictment stage.†   (source)
  • Prashkin is clean in America, but was indicted in Mexico on fraud charges that were dropped quickly three weeks after they were brought.†   (source)
  • Brent Wolke, the manager of the Hudson Foods plant in Columbus, and Michael Gregory, the company director of customer relations and quality control, were indicted in December of 1998.†   (source)
  • Even with each count stated with maximum brevity, in single spacing, the indictment stretched over eight feet of paper.†   (source)
  • Grondin, who was indicted and acquitted on charges of tax evasion in 1960, could not be reached for comment, and Horace Derwent, who guards his own privacy jealously, had no comment when reached by telephone.†   (source)
  • If Philadelphia failed to convict him, there would be two more chances; if the city succeeded, the other indictments would be moot, for given the nature of the Pitezel murder, a conviction in Philadelphia would bring a death sentence.†   (source)
  • Instead of a job, he received an indictment, charged with ordering the abuse of several captives, including one who'd been starved and tortured to death.†   (source)
  • The prosecutor chose to indict thirteen-year-old Joe Sullivan in adult court for sexual battery and other charges.†   (source)
  • It might not have led to an indictment for fraud—the deal had already been approved by the auditors—but I would have damaged his reputation.†   (source)
  • It was unheard of to indict someone for perjury without any investigation or compelling evidence to establish that a false statement had been made.†   (source)
  • If there was to be an indictment at all, involuntary manslaughter had seemed a more likely charge than murder, given what was known of the case.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that Blomkvist had been indicted, convicted, and was now imprisoned, she had come out and said—if not in so many words—that he was innocent of libel and that another truth existed.†   (source)
  • A preliminary hearing was set for June 17, at which time Lawton would decide whether or not to seek an indictment.†   (source)
  • Well, I know it must sound crazy to you, but believe me there were people down there who were raring to get you indicted.†   (source)
  • They just came and arrested me and told me I had been indicted for perjury" I hung up with Darnell, shocked and furious.†   (source)
  • Depending on the outcome of the hearing, he might or might not be indicted for writing worthless checks—a felony punishable by one to five years in prison.†   (source)
  • 'A perjury indictment seems like a tactic designed to intimidate and discourage people from coming forward with evidence that contradicts the State's case.†   (source)
  • Her revenge took a particularly devastating form, as Joe learned when he looked at his newspaper one November morning and saw the headline ATTORNEY JOE ODOM INDICTED FOR FORGERY.†   (source)
  • If Adams was disappointed or downcast over the removal of Jefferson's indictment of the slave trade, he seems to have said nothing at the time.†   (source)
  • I did not stop her, instead I had to hear the words, from her own lips, hear my own indictment of myself as well as hers.†   (source)
  • His letter was dated August 9,1780, and while mild in tone and not entirely unfair in judgment, it was, as Franklin knew perfectly, a devastating indictment.†   (source)
  • In Chicago, a federal grand jury had handed down indictments against eight demonstrators at the Democratic convention the previous summer.†   (source)
  • "True enough, but that handy fact won't get an indictment on the lessers—not when the jury's going to feel sorry for him, and the counsel starts hawking diminished capacity."†   (source)
  • First she'd had a probable cause hearing to pull together, then, she'd been in front of the grand jury, getting them to hand down an indictment.†   (source)
  • Besides clauses that relate to the structure of the government, we find the following: Article 1, section 3, clause 7: "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law."†   (source)
  • I may seem colder to you in there than I am right now but, remember, we're in there to win an indictment and to a certain extent—well, the grand jury is made up of twenty-five civilians, and we're onstage."†   (source)
  • Booty was being blamed by the rest of the gang for bringing about the indictment, he told Venkatesh, and therefore suspected that he would soon be killed.†   (source)
  • We'll whistle for an indictment."†   (source)
  • No indictment, no arraignment.†   (source)
  • To the long list of indictments against the King, he had added oneassailing the English people, "our British brethren," as a further oppressor, for allowing their Parliament and their King "to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us."†   (source)
  • He had no plans to represent Simeon Lang beyond the indictment and would punt the case in a month or so.†   (source)
  • Not long after he made the board of directors, the Black Disciples were essentially shut down by a federal indictment—the same indictment that led the gangster named Booty to turn over his notebooks to Venkatesh—and J. T. was sent to prison.†   (source)
  • All you needed to know about Jill was that as a third-year prosecutor, it was she who had tried the La Frade case, when the mayor's old law partner was indicted on a RICO charge for influence peddling.†   (source)
  • We are here to notify you that you've been indicted in federal court in Chicago, on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering."†   (source)
  • "Give this to Mr. Dillard, and let the record show that the defendant's counsel has been provided a copy of the indictment.†   (source)
  • At the time of his indictment, he had discovered that the boy had known about his deal with Danagger, yet had not reported it to anyone.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and heard the voice of the court clerk, Jean Gillespie, read the verdict: "As to each count of the indictment, we the jury find the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity."†   (source)
  • Nora, Jack, and thirteen others (some of whom I knew and some I did not), including African drug lord Alaji, shared my indictment.†   (source)
  • Deacon Baker had indicted the Christian girl without much evidence hoping she'd either confess or roll on Erlene Barlowe.†   (source)
  • Two federal agents just came to my door and told me that I've been indicted for money laundering and drug trafficking."†   (source)
  • I would indict the prison system as a whole as a racist institution that sought to perpetuate white supremacy.†   (source)
  • Martin stood and read the indictment that charged Angel Christian with knowingly, intentionally, and with premeditation taking the life of John Paul Tester.†   (source)
  • Lou tried to organize this radical new information in his head by switching into lawyer mode, asking about my indictment, my lawyer, the court in question, and what he could do to help.†   (source)
  • In a fit of bluster, he proclaimed, "I make bold to say that every particular allegation in the indictment has been proved."†   (source)
  • Read the indictment, Mr. Martin?†   (source)
  • When I was indicted, we were definitely in love, but just twenty-eight and freshly arrived in NewYork, we were not thinking about the future beyond where we would move when the guy we were subletting from reappeared from London.†   (source)
  • Let me see the indictment?†   (source)
  • Yutar finished by saying that the case was not only one of high treason "par excellence," but of murder and attempted murder—neither of which was mentioned in the indictment.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy charges are beloved by prosecutors, because they make it much easier to obtain indictments from grand juries and are a great lever for getting people to plead guilty: once one person on a conspiracy indictment rolls over, it's pretty easy to convince their codefendants that they won't stand a chance in open trial.†   (source)
  • Conspiracy charges are beloved by prosecutors, because they make it much easier to obtain indictments from grand juries and are a great lever for getting people to plead guilty: once one person on a conspiracy indictment rolls over, it's pretty easy to convince their codefendants that they won't stand a chance in open trial.†   (source)
  • The indictment charged eleven of us with complicity in over two hundred acts of sabotage aimed at facilitatingviolent revolution and an armed invasion of the country.†   (source)
  • Despite its handsome packaging, Yutar's address was a garbled summary of the prosecution's case and did not explain the indictment or assess the evidence.†   (source)
  • We went on the attack immediately—Bram Fischer criticized the state's indictment as shoddy, poorly drawn, and containing absurdities such as the allegation that I had participated in certainacts of sabotage on dates when I was in Pretoria Local.†   (source)
  • I deny that Umkhonto was responsible for a number of acts which clearly fell outside the policy of the organization, and which have been charged in the indictment against us.†   (source)
  • Yet you indicted pain.†   (source)
  • One Cardoza, under indictment for larceny in New York, was placed at the head of the public schools and two former slaves held the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State.†   (source)
  • With the President impeached—in effect, indicted—by the House, the frenzied trial for his conviction or acquittal under the Articles of Impeachment began on March 5 in the Senate, presided over by the Chief Justice.†   (source)
  • One of the chief allegations in the indictment is that the ANC was a party to a general conspiracy to commit sabotage.†   (source)
  • The Nuremberg Trials, in which eleven notorious Nazis had been found guilty under an impressively documented indictment for "waging an aggres-sive war," had been popular throughout the world and particularly in the United States.†   (source)
  • George Norris called the President's scathing indictment a grave injustice to men who conscientiously tried to do their duty as they saw it; but, except for the unfortunate and unhelpful praise bestowed upon them by the German press, "the epithets heaped upon these men were without precedent in the annals of American journalism.†   (source)
  • They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our affairs.†   (source)
  • Having dealt with Lear Tolstoy draws up a more general indictment against Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • It contained no indictment of slavery, but simply based emancipation on "military necessity."†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Young, surrendering a copy of his indictment.†   (source)
  • You"re trying to indict a race of people and a political party!"†   (source)
  • The judge rapped for order and asked, "Is the defendant ready to enter a plea to this indictment?"†   (source)
  • Whom does that indict—Roark or society?†   (source)
  • "You see, Dick," Ross's wife said, "Ross's under an indictment.†   (source)
  • In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.†   (source)
  • You know about Ross's indictment?" he asked.†   (source)
  • ""indictment number 666-983". the People of the State of Illinois vs. Bigger Thomas".†   (source)
  • The indictment fully states the crime to which the defendant has entered a plea of guilty.†   (source)
  • To indict that murderer.†   (source)
  • Roark had been indicted by a grand jury, had pleaded "Not guilty" and had refused to make any other statement.†   (source)
  • He stamped and swore that he was going to have blood, and breathed indictments, jail, publicity, and lawsuits.†   (source)
  • You are charged with the following indictments: Edward George Armstrong, that you did upon the 14th day of March, 1925, cause the death of Louisa Mary Clees.†   (source)
  • Your grandfather got him out, quashed the indictment and paid the fine and brought him back to his office and talked to him while Judith waited in the anteroom.†   (source)
  • Then, quite beyond reason, Harry and Max yoked in a plunging team, Eugene in the driver's seat, they would leap out through the narrow door, gallop perilously to a neighbor's house, throw up ladders, open windows, effect entries, extinguish imaginary flames, and return oblivious to the shrieking indictment of the housewife.†   (source)
  • Love without hope perhaps, faith with little to be proud with: but love and faith at least above the murdering and the filly, to salvage at least from the humbled indicted dust something anyway of the old lost enchantment of the heart.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the largest reasonable indictment of him is simply that in such matters he was a follower and not a leader of public opinion.†   (source)
  • He knew that by night the Grand Jury would have indicted Christmas, and Brown--or Burch--would be a free agent save for his bond to appear as a witness at next month's court.†   (source)
  • Adjusting the gramophone he replaced the needle on the record and immediately they heard again: "You are charged with the following indictments-"†   (source)
  • Like every other writer, Shakespeare will be forgotten sooner or later, but it is unlikely that a heavier indictment will ever be brought against him.†   (source)
  • She did not know what she wanted, but his silence before her exasperated indictment of life drove her to frenzy.†   (source)
  • I may say that I watched the faces of my guests closely during that indictment and I had no doubt whatever, after my long court experience, that one and all were guilty.†   (source)
  • …cause, no reason for it; none to ever know exactly what happened, what curses and ejaculations which might have indicated what it was that drove him and only your grandfather to fumble, grope, grasp the presence of that furious protest, that indictment of heaven's ordering, that gage flung into the face of what is with a furious and indomitable desperation which the demon himself might have shown, as if the child and then the youth had acquired it from the walls in which the demon had…†   (source)
  • And maybe it (the voice, the talking, the incredulous and unbearable amazement) had even been a cry aloud once, Quentin thought, long ago when she was a girl—of young and indomitable unregret, of indictment of blind circumstance and savage event, but not now: now only the lonely thwarted old female flesh embattled for forty-three years in the old insult, the old unforgiving outraged and betrayed by the final and complete affront which was Sutpen's death: "He wasn't a gentleman.†   (source)
  • …and time and massy earth, relicts the seething and anonymous miasmal mass which in all the years of time has taught itself no boon of death but only how to recreate, renew; and dies, is gone, vanished: nothing—but is that true wisdom which can comprehend that there is a might-have-been which is more true than truth, from which the dreamer, waking, says not 'Did I but dream?' but rather says, indicts high heaven's very self with: 'Why did I wake since waking I shall never sleep again?†   (source)
  • …recognise this slight man with his bandaged head and arm, his sullen impassive (and now bloodless) olive face, who refused to answer any questions, make any statement so that the justice ( Jim Hamblett it was) was already making his speech of indictment when your grandfather entered, utilising opportunity and audience to orate, his eyes already glazed with that cessation of vision of people who like to hear themselves talk in public: 'At this time, while our country is struggling to…†   (source)
  • I object to the counsel for the defendant speaking of this defendant before this Court by any name other than that written in the indictment.†   (source)
  • …force not only the elder sister's bridegroom but the wedding too down the throat of a town which did not want it, growing up in that closed masonry of females to see in the fact of her own breathing not only the lone justification for the sacrifice of her mother's life, not only a living and walking reproach to her father, but a breathing indictment ubiquitous and even transferable of the entire male principle (that principle which had left the aunt a virgin at thirty-five) above dust.†   (source)
  • The counsel for the defense claims, and would have this Court believe, that the mere act of entering a plea of guilty to this indictment should be accepted as evidence mitigating punishment.†   (source)
  • "In Number 666"983, indictment for murder, the sentence of the Court is that you, Bigger Thomas, shall die on or before midnight of Friday, March third, in a manner prescribed by the laws of this State.†   (source)
  • "Having been bound over to the Grand Jury and indicted by it, having been arraigned and having pled not guilty to the charge of murder and been ordered to trial"all in less than a week, Bigger lay one sunless grey morning on his cot, staring vacantly at the black steel bars of the Cook County Jail.†   (source)
  • Can you come into court with clean hands, if you're going to indict the Holy One?†   (source)
  • But even that is all beside the point, the main question is: Who is issuing the indictment?†   (source)
  • And the boy indicted Wolf Larsen as he had never been indicted before.†   (source)
  • RETURNED INDICTMENT CHARGING MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.†   (source)
  • And then that body sitting, it was no least trouble for Mason to have Clyde indicted.†   (source)
  • BOY SLAYER OF WORKING-GIRL SWEETHEART INDICTED.†   (source)
  • We'll indict the blackguards for felony, and get 'em shipped off to penal settlements.'†   (source)
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