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malefactor
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  • He passed up the staircase and into the corridor along the walls of which the overcoats and waterproofs hung like gibbeted malefactors, headless and dripping and shapeless.†  (source)
  • They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.†  (source)
  • A general amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors may return to their town.†  (source)
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  • — And finally, what name do malefactors give to their prison?†  (source)
  • The blind specialist gets into a heated argument with the protagonist, who accuses the specialist of fraud, and is accused in turn of being the worst sort of malefactor, one who by the way is blind to what really matters.†  (source)
  • At this appeal, I could see the lass was in great trouble of mind, being tempted to help us, and yet in some fear she might be helping malefactors; and so now I determined to step in myself and to allay her scruples with a portion of the truth.†  (source)
  • This almost unique malefactor received a pardon, and was conveyed to New York, where she changed her name, and soon afterwards married.†  (source)
  • These words, in fact, represented to her imagination something very terrible indeed, something base and cruel, which she associated with malefactors and prisoners.†  (source)
  • I was only aware that I was suffering exactly in the same way that my mother had and that my deserts could scarcely be more fitting; no malefactor ever endured his punishment with less rancor.†  (source)
  • The officer always gave me the assurance that he was worse, and some other sick prisoners in the room, and some other prisoners who attended on them as sick nurses, (malefactors, but not incapable of kindness, God be thanked!)†  (source)
  • They had apparently believed, moreover, that they were actually helping the malefactor.†  (source)
  • I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing: in fact, I was as reckless as some malefactors show themselves at the foot of the gallows.†  (source)
  • It was put up in wuld times by the relations of a malefactor who was tortured there by nailing his hand to a post and afterwards hung.†  (source)
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