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indict as in:  indicted by the grand jury

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  • There's an ongoing investigation, but she has not been indicted.
    indicted = formally charged with a crime
  • Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn't indict.   (source)
    indict = officially charge with a crime
  • These would be distilled into an 84-count indictment.   (source)
    indictment = document of formal criminal charges
  • 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)
    indict = formally charge with a crime
  • 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)
    indict = formally charge
  • …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
  • 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)
    indictment = criminal charges
  • If I so much as say an unkind word to a terrorist, I'll be indicted.   (source)
    indicted = formally charged with a crime
  • 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)
    indictment = formal criminal charges
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.   (source)
    indictment = criminal charge
  • He was also facing indictment in the Morrison murder.   (source)
    indictment = formal criminal charges
  • They just came and arrested me and told me I had been indicted for perjury.   (source)
    indicted = charged with a crime
  • Well, you've indicted someone for perjury for contradicting the state's case.   (source)
    indicted = formally charged
  • Indicting Darnell was a worrisome signal that they were willing to threaten and intimidate people.   (source)
    indicting = formally charging
  • 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)
  • The prosecutor chose to indict thirteen-year-old Joe Sullivan in adult court for sexual battery and other charges.   (source)
  • When the indictment was announced, there was joy and relief in the community that someone had been charged.   (source)
    indictment = formal criminal charges
  • 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)
    indictment = formal criminal charge
  • 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)
    indicting = formally charging
  • Adjusting the gramophone he replaced the needle on the record and immediately they heard again: "You are charged with the following indictments-"   (source)
    indictments = formal criminal charges
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.75 of the French Constitution of the An VIII—The Americans and the English cannot understand the purport of this clause.†   (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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indict as in:  indicted the idea as ridiculous

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  • She indicted the church for being hypocritical.
    indicted = criticized or condemned
  • My memories of them became ominous, indicting.   (source)
    indicting = condemning or critical
  • 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)
    indictment = condemnation or criticism
  • But whatever I said would be a self-indictment; others would have to fight for me.   (source)
    indictment = condemning (criticizing)
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  • Even with each count stated with maximum brevity, in single spacing, the indictment stretched over eight feet of paper.†   (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)
  • That this is an indictment of the Church?†   (source)
  • A preliminary hearing was set for June 17, at which time Lawton would decide whether or not to seek an indictment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Later, there would be indictments, arrests.†   (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Indianapolis indicted Holmes for the murder of Howard Pitezel, Toronto for the murders of Alice and Nellie.†   (source)
  • Gienelli has been indicted twenty-three times, tried fourteen times, and convicted only once, for shoplifting in 1940.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Does that mean you're holding to the story that prompted the indictment?†   (source)
  • In 1947, GM and a number of its allies in the scheme were indicted on federal antitrust charges.†   (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)
  • "So, I asked Tepper," he continued, "what the indictment looked like and he said they have you listed for fifteen five-year charges.†   (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)
  • I think we're finally going to be able to indict.†   (source)
  • Reed's letter was a stunning indictment of Washington.†   (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)
  • But listening to her cogently mapping out what we needed to indict, a tantalizing thought took hold of me.†   (source)
  • He had no plans to represent Simeon Lang beyond the indictment and would punt the case in a month or so.†   (source)
  • "I was never indicted," said Magwich.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He wrote that language was "better" 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, meant that students themselves became arbiters of what subjects were to be taught, and grammar, by jingo (o†   (source)
  • She was using my fingernails to indict my soul.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He delivered the scathing indictment and closed the door.†   (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)
  • They believe there's a good chance you will charge him, but that he won't be indicted.†   (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)
  • I was in and out of police courts and higher courts, and indictments hung over my life for several years.†   (source)
  • He could hear snickers and hoots as the indictments were read.†   (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)
  • Officers can be indicted and punished.†   (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)
  • He was really pleased when he was indicted by a stern and frightened jury.†   (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.... The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi.†   (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 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)
  • She was a living indictment of the age.†   (source)
  • Now, in a single moment, I had to retract my sweeping indictment of TV: it had not failed completely, only partially.†   (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)
  • Every indictor tab in Vault 10 carried the same keyword.†   (source)
  • Cabey was, at the time, under indictment for armed robbery.†   (source)
  • So if Saunière knew the person who killed him, what kind of indictment is this?†   (source)
  • A few days after the indictment, Danny Hansford's mother sued Williams for $10,003,500.†   (source)
  • He counted trash in the fields as a moral indictment.†   (source)
  • She had come to see that, without intending to, it delivered a significant personal indictment.†   (source)
  • Failing that, he would almost certainly be indicted.†   (source)
  • When you were indicted, why didn't you defend yourself?†   (source)
  • It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.†   (source)
  • Then a crime would have been committed and an indictment could be brought.†   (source)
  • I'm handing Mr. Dillard a copy of the indictment:' Glass said.†   (source)
  • On an eight-count indictment, Madison pled not guilty.†   (source)
  • De Wet then quashed the indictment and gaveled the session to a close.†   (source)
  • What if the Feds found out he had them—perhaps he'd be indicted too?†   (source)
  • I don't think it's going to come to an indictment.†   (source)
  • I came to speak to you about your indictment.†   (source)
  • I've been indicted in federal court for money laundering and drug trafficking.†   (source)
  • Commingling client funds, but no indictment.†   (source)
  • "Cleveland's ready to indict," I told them.†   (source)
  • Rearden and Danagger were indicted this morning-for an illegal sale of Rearden Metal.†   (source)
  • Do you waive the formal reading of the indictment?†   (source)
  • By now more than five years had passed since I had been indicted.†   (source)
  • His wife and two daughters were still waiting, as was an indictment.†   (source)
  • The state redrew their indictment and we were back in court in early December.†   (source)
  • "Tomorrow, I'm going to the district attorney for an indictment," McBride announced.†   (source)
  • I was there, in the courtroom in Philadelphia, when they read the indictment.†   (source)
  • Yutar handed in the indictment and authorized that we be charged immediately and tried summarily.†   (source)
  • If you weren't ready to prosecute her, you shouldn't have indicted her.†   (source)
  • The state had been preparing for three months, but we had only received the indictment that day.†   (source)
  • This was the first time we were given a copy of the indictment.†   (source)
  • Another of the allegations in the indictment is that Rivonia was the headquarters of Umkhonto.†   (source)
  • He told me the Mississippi jury refused to indict in the Parker lynch case.†   (source)
  • The indictment is grounded in an Act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the Law of God.†   (source)
  • She wished she were white, which one could interpret as an indictment of our society.†   (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)
  • Indictments were issued.†   (source)
  • Like reading aloud your own indictment.†   (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)
  • ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1895, a Philadelphia grand jury voted to indict Holmes for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel.†   (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)
  • Prashkin is clean in America, but was indicted in Mexico on fraud charges that were dropped quickly three weeks after they were brought.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Not even a felony indictment.†   (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)
  • Yet you indicted pain.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We'll whistle for an indictment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • No indictment, no arraignment.†   (source)
  • Two federal agents just came to my door and told me that I've been indicted for money laundering and drug trafficking.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Deacon Baker had indicted the Christian girl without much evidence hoping she'd either confess or roll on Erlene Barlowe.†   (source)
  • Had he been indicted?†   (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)
  • Give this to Mr. Dillard, and let the record show that the defendant's counsel has been provided a copy of the indictment.†   (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)
  • I would indict the prison system as a whole as a racist institution that sought to perpetuate white supremacy.†   (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)
  • Martin stood and read the indictment that charged Angel Christian with knowingly, intentionally, and with premeditation taking the life of John Paul Tester.†   (source)
  • Read the indictment, Mr. Martin?'†   (source)
  • In a fit of bluster, he proclaimed, "I make bold to say that every particular allegation in the indictment has been proved."†   (source)
  • When I was indicted, we were definitely in love, but just twenty-eight and freshly arrived in New York, we were not thinking about the future beyond where we would move when the guy we were subletting from reappeared from London.†   (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)
  • Let me see 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • One of the chief allegations in the indictment is that the ANC was a party to a general conspiracy to commit sabotage.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Having dealt with Lear Tolstoy draws up a more general indictment against Shakespeare.†   (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)
  • They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our affairs.†   (source)
  • It contained no indictment of slavery, but simply based emancipation on "military necessity."†   (source)
  • The indictment fully states the crime to which the defendant has entered a plea of guilty.†   (source)
  • "You see, Dick," Ross's wife said, "Ross's under an indictment.†   (source)
  • Whom does that indict—Roark or society?†   (source)
  • You know about Ross's indictment?" he asked.†   (source)
  • In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.†   (source)
  • The judge rapped for order and asked, "Is the defendant ready to enter a plea to this indictment?"†   (source)
  • Roark had been indicted by a grand jury, had pleaded "Not guilty" and had refused to make any other statement.†   (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)
  • He stamped and swore that he was going to have blood, and breathed indictments, jail, publicity, and lawsuits.†   (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)
  • To indict that murderer.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • the punishment, the blows and slashes which he took in return and did not even seem to feel; —no 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 lived, the air which he had once walked in and breathed until that moment when his own fate which he had dare†   (source)
  • creates, reduces to a fragile evanescent iridescent sphere) all of space 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)
  • 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)
  • to sense that because the justice and the others present did not recognise him, did not 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 rise from beneath the iron heel of a tyrant oppressor, when the very future of the South as a place bearable fo†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But she was born, at the price of her mother's life and never to be permitted to forget it, and raised by the same spinster aunt who tried to 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)
  • "indictment number 666-983".†   (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)
  • BOY SLAYER OF WORKING-GIRL SWEETHEART INDICTED.†   (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)
  • We'll indict the blackguards for felony, and get 'em shipped off to penal settlements.'†   (source)
  • The offence was proved, as she delivered the indictment.†   (source)
  • Have I arrived at the moment when you were drawing up an indictment for a capital crime?†   (source)
  • At length the reading of the indictment was ended.†   (source)
  • "Mr. District Attorney," said the Judge, "the prisoner is ready; we wait for the indictment."†   (source)
  • LIZA [piling up the indictment] What call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza?†   (source)
  • Accordingly he proceeded to Albany further to impress upon the Governor the very great need of an immediate special term of the Court so that Clyde might be indicted.†   (source)
  • Were they realities, you would have to plead guilty to my indictment; but fortunately for your self-respect, my diabolical friend, they are not realities.†   (source)
  • She remembered him reading out a long indictment of himself for being a sentimentalist, against the peace and dignity of the State of Minnesota.†   (source)
  • You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen!†   (source)
  • Suddenly, as she raged, something in her—this dauntless new personality—took arms against indictment of Gene Stewart.†   (source)
  • We could no longer keep count in the family (when my great-aunt tried to frame an indictment of my grandmother) of all the armchairs she had presented to married couples, young and old, which on a first attempt to sit down upon them had at once collapsed beneath the weight of their recipient.†   (source)
  • I know perfectly well that all this about her being a liar and a bully and a coquette and so forth is a trumped-up moral indictment which might be brought against anybody.†   (source)
  • Being indicted does not cause any clear, precisely definable change in a person's appearance, of course.†   (source)
  • That follows from the fact that I've been indicted, but can't think of the slightest offence for which I could be indicted.†   (source)
  • The right to acquit people is a major privilege and our judges don't have it, but they do have the right to free people from the indictment.†   (source)
  • "Not everyone thinks the same way as you do," said K. "I've been indicted as well but I swear on my soul that I've neither submitted evidence nor done anything else of the sort.†   (source)
  • And Mason, through an appeal to the Governor, as all now knew was planning to secure a special sitting of the Supreme Court, which would naturally involve an immediate session of the County Grand Jury in order to hear the evidence and either indict or discharge Clyde.†   (source)
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