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  • They are the real culprits.   (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart.   (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • Mr. Earnshaw snatched up the culprit directly and conveyed him to his chamber; where, doubtless, he administered a rough remedy to cool the fit of passion, for he appeared red and breathless.   (source)
  • Their arrival was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets, and Jane more especially, who gave Lydia the feelings which would have attended herself, had she been the culprit, and was wretched in the thought of what her sister must endure.   (source)
  • When rival thieves took up the racket, he suspended the stealing until the culprits were caught and the bakery owners dropped their guard.†   (source)
  • She sits down, obviously pleased that the culprits have been caught.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit.†   (source)
  • And since our camp was divided on just who the culprit or culprits were, the odor was dubbed the Mystery Smell.†   (source)
  • As always, he was stationed by the door, his suspicious eyes roaming the audience as much as they toured the stage, as if Chief Pike suspected that the culprit might have brought the stolen baseball to the play!†   (source)
  • The buckle was the culprit.†   (source)
  • If anyone or anything set foot in our chicken house—if it had feet, that is—we would catch the culprit red-handed.†   (source)
  • Giants coach Tom Coughlin suspected another culprit.†   (source)
  • Morse has spectacularly bad luck with his women; several wind up as either corpses or culprits in his various adventures, while others just don't work out.†   (source)
  • On March 24th the Camera named the probable culprit as 'tainted formula'.†   (source)
  • The fire could have started from a flaming box, or perhaps a buildup of creosote inside the chimney was the culprit. it started right around the stove, and the heart of the house was gutted.†   (source)
  • The statement called for the school to find the culprits who defaced the Chicano Student Center, for more Chicano teachers, and for a Chicano Studies class.†   (source)
  • At least half the people in the room will know the culprit.†   (source)
  • Also, she has the culprits cutting Nancy Montgomery's body up into quarters before hiding it under the washtub, which surely was not done.†   (source)
  • I spot the culprit immediately: a framed picture, smashed, with a piece of glass missing from the top, the exposed edge smeared with my blood.†   (source)
  • He charged his oldest wolf-son, Taha Wi, with finding the true culprit before hostilities began.†   (source)
  • "Yes," says Phaedrus omnisciently, " — Aristotle — " The assistant chairman is shocked for a moment, then, almost like a culprit who has been discovered but feels no guilt, laughs loud and long.†   (source)
  • So when it was the turn of the 104th to be frisked they bad to ease up a bit: Volkovoi told the guards to take the name of anyone who might be wearing extra garments--the culprits were to surrender them in person to personal property that evening with a written explanation of how and why they had hidden the garments.†   (source)
  • Several scuffles broke out, but the captains under Jormundur quickly overwhelmed the culprits, so as to prevent the violence from taking root and spreading.†   (source)
  • I'm not listening, because I know full well who the culprit is.†   (source)
  • His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore's downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered.†   (source)
  • The culprit was crime.†   (source)
  • They demanded a culprit — and Catherine O'Leary was the handiest target in sight.†   (source)
  • Pop hissed into my ear who the culprit was, but I kept it to myself.†   (source)
  • A plunger revealed the culprit—a sanitary napkin, become quite unsanitary by that time.†   (source)
  • The others had been cleared, minor culprits having simply been turned loose in order to lessen the chances that Blue Duck might somehow contrive an escape.†   (source)
  • Early the following morning Larry drove him over to the house to help clean up the mess with the other culprits.†   (source)
  • Poor hygiene and lack of clean drinking water were the culprits, he said.†   (source)
  • Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.†   (source)
  • Indeed, was she not the principal culprit determining her mother's fate?†   (source)
  • Culprits of tropical squalor!†   (source)
  • They didn't encounter whatever had frightened the deer from cover, but Joe was pretty sure now that the culprit had been another animal.†   (source)
  • What better way for the new Lord of the Crossing to rid himself of inconvenient half brothers, disagreeable cousins, and scheming sisters than by naming them the culprits?†   (source)
  • I have no idea if Phil was the culprit.†   (source)
  • The mystery was written off as unsolvable — it might even have been an accident which the culprit dared not acknowledge…… We had kept our cars wide open for any hint of guesswork or supposition that might lead attention towards us, but there was none at all, and as the interest declined we were able to relax.†   (source)
  • The culprit, Grant decides, is not General Phil Sheridan.†   (source)
  • Whoever was the culprit was trying to get the other to do something (what isn't remembered) and was bluffing that he would drop the BB gun if he didn't do it.†   (source)
  • The likely culprit was the immense loss of blood and the shock he had suffered after being wounded, but Natalie could not rule out brain trauma.†   (source)
  • I'm glad waterboarding isn't allowed in the blind, because ol' Phil would have filled our faces with water to find the culprit.†   (source)
  • Mightn't he simply have run off, victim of amnesia, or become a fleeing culprit?†   (source)
  • Without the prompting the culprit was used to, his confession was nonsense.†   (source)
  • Vlas Pakhomovich stood looking around for the culprit.†   (source)
  • He left the culprits confined in the brig of the aircraft carrier while they sobered up and while he thought about it; then he had them lined up before him on the quarter deck.†   (source)
  • Blame the wind and the rain and the sun and the earth: they cannot refute it, they are the culprits.†   (source)
  • 11,000,000 fighting veterans of World War II will answer Mr. Taft…… I doubt that the Republican National Chairman will permit the Senator to make any more speeches now that Taft has called the trials a blot on the American record…… Neither the American people nor history will agree…… Senator Taft, whether he believed it or not, was defending these culprits who were responsible for the murder of ten million people.†   (source)
  • Prudence had further news of the culprits.   (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing
  • He had a hunch that the culprit (or culprits) intended something more serious than juvenile pranks.   (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.   (source)
    culprit = someone responsible for a crime
  • I am hopeful that this dreadful year will end with our catching the culprit.   (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • The true culprit was still out there somewhere, dreaming up a new scheme.   (source)
  • And if the culprit wasn't caught soon, he was looking at a lifetime back with the Dursleys.   (source)
  • It is likely that the school will be closed unless the culprit behind these attacks is caught.   (source)
  • Nat and the redheaded seaman who had painted the Dolphin's figurehead that morning on the river were cheerfully exchanging insults with a cluster of young bound boys who had stopped to enjoy the spectacle, the two culprits holding their own in an unchastened manner that delighted the onlookers.   (source)
    culprits = people responsible for a wrongdoing -- especially criminals
  • The culprit has been taken away —   (source)
    culprit = person responsible for a wrongdoing
  • Have you caught the culprit?   (source)
  • Ministry blunders…. culprits not apprehended…. lax security….†   (source)
  • But then, she'd have been only a few feet away from the real culprit!" said Mr. Diggory impatiently.†   (source)
  • Unable to find the culprit, he stormed out, and Louie was the toast of the club.†   (source)
  • During a lunch break, the innocent men persuaded the culprits to confess.†   (source)
  • "Damp is said to be the culprit," he said.†   (source)
  • He stood over an empty box, his head swiveling around the room, looking for the culprit.†   (source)
  • She wanted to see the culprit penalized.†   (source)
  • We all have a tendency to consider strength the culprit and weakness the innocent victim.†   (source)
  • Morris Fink, incidentally, had not been the culprit.†   (source)
  • Hagrid gave a howl of fury, lifted the culprit bodily from the ground and threw him; the man flew what looked like ten feet and did not get up again.†   (source)
  • And since our camp was divided on just who the culprit or culprits were, the odor was dubbed the Mystery Smell.†   (source)
  • It is not the culprits who need to be forgiven; rather it is the victims, because they are the ones who cause all the trouble.†   (source)
  • The breaking of a twig echoed loudly and the tiniest rustle of movement, even though it might have been made by an innocent sparrow, caused Harry to peer through the gloom for a culprit.†   (source)
  • That day at Hurd's, you could almost hear those boots creaking by the door, as if he expected the stolen baseball to loose itself from the culprit's pocket and roll across the dark crimson carpeting with incriminating authority For Chief Pike, the theft of the ball that killed my mother was an offense of a far graver character than a mere misdemeanor; at the very least, it was the work of a felon.†   (source)
  • My help would rob me blind if I didn't keep every single thing locked down, and punish the culprits with a firm hand.†   (source)
  • When men were caught stealing, POW officers suggested that the culprits be transferred to sites that didn't carry food.†   (source)
  • His inability to straighten his knees all the way may have been the culprit, preventing him from locking his forelegs in the upright position.†   (source)
  • Severe reducing was thought to be the culprit behind an epidemic of fatal lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, among jockeys.†   (source)
  • The pranking was so frequent that the squadron eventually built a wire diagram connecting all the suspected culprits.†   (source)
  • To do so would have forced people to look elsewhere for a culprit — a search that would have invited questions about the city's blatant lack of emergency planning.†   (source)
  • Should he take cover behind the row in front of him and toss the bit of metal in the snow (it'd be noticed but they wouldn't know who the culprit was) or keep it on him?†   (source)
  • That is why Tomas accepted Tereza's wish to emigrate as the culprit accepts his sentence, and one day he and Tereza and Karenin found themselves in the largest city in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • All doors are flung open-in stable and in cowbarn; Pigeons peck at oats fallen in the snow; And the culprit of all this and its life-begetter— The pile of manure-is pungent with ozone.†   (source)
  • Although the Nazis had taken some pains to throw a smoke screen around the crime, it was clear to everyone, including Sophie, who the culprits were.†   (source)
  • He spoke not another word to her informally, becoming all business again as he instructed her to write out a memorandum to SS Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Hartjenstein, commanding officer of the SS garrison, directing that a search be made for the candlesticks in the enlisted barracks and that every effort be exerted to apprehend the culprits, who would then be placed in custody of the camp provost marshal for discipline.†   (source)
  • She did not seem to be surprised that I was the culprit.†   (source)
  • All stood on two feet and turned their blind heads toward the culprit.†   (source)
  • The culprit gave a slow smile as he lit himself another cigar.†   (source)
  • And he, himself a rabbi now, he had held the culprit's legs while the straps sank into the white buttocks.†   (source)
  • He had a feeling of personal guilt; he felt like a magistrate fining for intoxication a culprit with whom he has been on a spree the night before.†   (source)
  • A week later, Ellsworth marched up to the teacher, laid the jelly beans, untouched, upon her desk and confessed his crime, without naming the other culprit.†   (source)
  • So he's the chief culprit anyhow.†   (source)
  • I remember Robert dropping a tray of ices, and the expression of Frith's face when he saw Robert was the culprit and not one of the minions hired for the occasion.†   (source)
  • If the van der Luydens want to quarrel with anybody, the real culprit is under their own roof.†   (source)
  • They stood and stared at each other, pale as culprits.†   (source)
  • My eyes had spoken, I knew, until I had found the culprits out and silenced them.†   (source)
  • Then you had some grounds for supposing he might be the culprit?" said Lebedeff, frowning.†   (source)
  • "Next culprit," Behrens said, and poked Hans Castorp with his elbow.†   (source)
  • Of course some Indian is the culprit, we must never doubt that.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth followed him to the house like a culprit; but when she got inside she could not see him.†   (source)
  • That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate.†   (source)
  • An unhappy culprit, found guilty of imperfect exercise, approaches at his command.†   (source)
  • 'Very well, sir,' said Squeers, darting a withering look at the culprit.†   (source)
  • And, in a moment after, Miss Ophelia, in high indignation, came dragging the culprit along.†   (source)
  • 'Lift him out,' said Squeers, after he had literally feasted his eyes, in silence, upon the culprit.†   (source)
  • The culprit falters excuses, and professes a determination to do better tomorrow.†   (source)
  • He was still holding her wrist tightly, as if he were compelling a culprit from the scene of action.†   (source)
  • This shrubbery was a well-known haven of refuge for culprits at Otradnoe.†   (source)
  • Brother, you behold a culprit, a criminal, a wretch, a libertine, a man of enormities!†   (source)
  • Indeed, the attack upon the absent culprit waxing serious, he began to take Henchard's part.†   (source)
  • I ask myself,' said Mr. Gradgrind, musing, 'does the real culprit know of these accusations?†   (source)
  • "But," said Morrel, "the culprit—the murderer—the assassin."†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle de Villefort is the culprit—she is the poisoner!†   (source)
  • The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone.†   (source)
  • The first-named malefactor will be subjected to the mazzuola, the second culprit beheaded.†   (source)
  • "Follow the culprit's steps; he first kills M. de Saint-Meran"— "O doctor!"†   (source)
  • Yes, that I have suffered; but the culprit?†   (source)
  • Faith, no, for between the culprit and the victim I have no choice.†   (source)
  • However, the two culprits advanced, and as they approached their faces became visible.†   (source)
  • He sat down on a block of freestone, regardless of the dusty imprint it made on his breeches; and his listless eyes following the movements of the workmen he presently became aware that the reputed culprit, Sue's lover Jude, was one amongst them.†   (source)
  • When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse; when he marked the dire expression on the liberated man's face as with his woolen shirt flung over him by the executioner he rushed forward from the spot to bury himself in the crowd, Billy was horrified.†   (source)
  • When the culprits reached the bone-littered castle of the Tozer ogres, Leora's father and brother were already there, and raging.†   (source)
  • The elder culprit had ceased from sobbing, and was hanging upon Tom's words with an excited interest and a growing hope.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp flinched in irritation and told himself indignantly that this time he really must find out who the culprit was.†   (source)
  • He quickly recapitulated the story of a sacrifice he had heard of in college: a man had cheated in an examination; his roommate in a gust of sentiment had taken the entire blame—due to the shame of it the innocent one's entire future seemed shrouded in regret and failure, capped by the ingratitude of the real culprit.†   (source)
  • The true culprit, whose case, as reported by his friends, was that he had merely commandeered a fifty-franc note to pay for drinks that Abe had ordered, had only recently and in a somewhat sinister rôle, reappeared upon the scene.†   (source)
  • As Buck sprang to punish him, the lash of Francois's whip sang through the air, reaching the culprit first; and nothing remained to Buck but to recover the bone.†   (source)
  • Hamidullah pointed to the culprit.†   (source)
  • It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination; with the result that such attitudes, and…†   (source)
  • But he resolutely held the door of his tepee, inside which he had placed the culprit, and refused to permit the vengeance for which his tribespeople clamoured.†   (source)
  • It must be confessed, however, that the case looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very possible that he is indeed the culprit.†   (source)
  • In a little while the measured tread of military men was heard approaching, and the culprits entered the presence in charge of an under-sheriff and escorted by a detail of the king's guard.†   (source)
  • She's 'poor Ellen' certainly, because she had the bad luck to make a wretched marriage; but I don't see that that's a reason for hiding her head as if she were the culprit."†   (source)
  • In the days that followed, as Dawson grew closer and closer, Buck still continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it craftily, when Francois was not around, With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased.†   (source)
  • Then he talked harshly to the unwitting culprit, and in his voice there was nothing but godlike wrath.†   (source)
  • At such times as he spent with Odette, if their conversation turned upon an indelicate act committed, or an indelicate sentiment expressed by some third person, she would ruthlessly condemn the culprit by virtue of the same moral principles which Swann had always heard expressed by his own parents, and to which he himself had remained loyal; and then, she would arrange her flowers, would sip her tea, would shew an interest in his work.†   (source)
  • The culprit is—†   (source)
  • Literature and art were deeply respected in the Archer set, and Mrs. Archer was always at pains to tell her children how much more agreeable and cultivated society had been when it included such figures as Washington Irving, Fitz-Greene Halleck and the poet of "The Culprit Fay."†   (source)
  • He stopped just as his eminently practical friend, still accompanied by the two young culprits, entered the room.†   (source)
  • "It's the wench's own fault," he asserted, and the culprit was Karp, a dangerous convict, who had escaped from prison and whose name was well known to us, as he had hidden in our town.†   (source)
  • When a magistrate (and in France such instances are not rare) indulges his trivial wit at the expense of the prisoner, or derides the predicament in which a culprit is placed, it would be well to deprive him of his robes of office, to see whether he would recall some portion of the natural dignity of mankind when he is reduced to the apparel of a private citizen.†   (source)
  • But I am the culprit.†   (source)
  • The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them.†   (source)
  • How she owns that it is she and not the man who is guilty; how she takes all the faults on her side; how she courts in a manner punishment for the wrongs which she has not committed and persists in shielding the real culprit!†   (source)
  • Adam was keenly alive to these indications, and as his anxiety about Arthur's condition began to be allayed, he felt more of that impatience which every one knows who has had his just indignation suspended by the physical state of the culprit.†   (source)
  • And when the culprits came before the dais,—"How comes it, villains! that you have loitered abroad so late as this?†   (source)
  • Any resort to legal measures for ascertaining the culprit was contrary to the principles of the church in Lantern Yard, according to which prosecution was forbidden to Christians, even had the case held less scandal to the community.†   (source)
  • The man would probably be condemned; the attorney-general was very clever, and never missed his culprits; he was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses.†   (source)
  • The culprits flung themselves prone, in an ecstasy of gratitude, and kissed his feet, declaring that they would never forget his goodness and never cease to pray for him as long as they lived.†   (source)
  • It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment.†   (source)
  • Captain Anderson, his officers, and the engineers put their heads together, then posted a warning that if the culprit were detected, he would be thrown overboard without a trial.†   (source)
  • She turned red, then pale, and began to tremble like a culprit before the captain, who gazed at her with a smile of satisfaction and amazement.†   (source)
  • The culprit was sitting at the window in the corner of the drawing room; beside him was standing Tanya with a plate.†   (source)
  • He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.†   (source)
  • Especially if there was anything discreditable to be found out concerning another man, Caleb preferred not to know it; and if he had to tell anybody under him that his evil doings were discovered, he was more embarrassed than the culprit.†   (source)
  • Also, they stood about the door of the Jolly Bargemen, with knowing and reserved looks that filled the whole neighborhood with admiration; and they had a mysterious manner of taking their drink, that was almost as good as taking the culprit.†   (source)
  • As the chief slowly uttered these words, pausing impressively between each sentence, the culprit raised his face, in deference to the other's rank and years.†   (source)
  • One of the culprits will be mazzolato; [*] he is an atrocious villain, who murdered the priest who brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity.†   (source)
  • But depredations on the neighbors were allowable, provided the culprit managed to evade detection or suspicion.†   (source)
  • Another singular thing is that the principal culprit in the matter is a scoundrel of a barber living in the Ascension Avenue, who is now safely locked up.†   (source)
  • Tom's imagination had not been rapid and capacious enough to include this question among the foreseen consequences, but it was no sooner put than he foresaw whither it tended, and that Maggie would not be considered the only culprit in the case.†   (source)
  • In short, the distaste of the worthy naturalist for beef was not unlike that which the shepherd sometimes produces, by first muzzling and fettering his delinquent dog, and then leaving him as a stepping stone for the whole flock to use in its transit over a wall, or through the opening of a sheep-fold; a process which is said to produce in the culprit a species of surfeit, on the subject of mutton, for ever after.†   (source)
  • Sir,' said Mr Meagles, in danger of making himself excessively hot again, 'he ceases to be an innocent citizen, and becomes a culprit.†   (source)
  • …magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week.†   (source)
  • "Reed-that-bends," he said, addressing the young culprit by name, and in his proper language, "though the Great Spirit has made you pleasant to the eyes, it would have been better that you had not been born.†   (source)
  • This had been Silas's testimony, though he clutched strongly at the idea of the pedlar's being the culprit, if only because it gave him a definite image of a whereabout for his gold after it had been taken away from its hiding-place: he could see it now in the pedlar's box.†   (source)
  • As I declined the proposal on the plea of an appointment, he was so good as to take me into a yard and show me where the gallows was kept, and also where people were publicly whipped, and then he showed me the Debtors' Door, out of which culprits came to be hanged; heightening the interest of that dreadful portal by giving me to understand that "four on 'em" would come out at that door the day after to-morrow at eight in the morning, to be killed in a row.†   (source)
  • Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part of the culprit in respect to his fault.†   (source)
  • But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man; and to Adam, this pale, hard-looking culprit was the Hetty who had smiled at him in the garden under the apple-tree boughs—she was that Hetty's corpse, which he had trembled to look at the first time, and then was unwilling to turn away his eyes from.†   (source)
  • The ingenious culprit was a man of great modesty and good sense; and, though a plain man, had been too much accustomed to combine what was original and daring in conception with what was patient and minute in execution, to be by any means an ordinary man.†   (source)
  • Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov.†   (source)
  • The instant Laurie's step was heard in the hall, Meg fled into the study, and Mrs. March received the culprit alone.†   (source)
  • But now—since I am irrevocably doomed—wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution?†   (source)
  • Work did not progress further, and they darted apart from one another like culprits when Kouzma came in to announce that tea was ready.†   (source)
  • The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her bosom.†   (source)
  • To make one's coulpe means to prostrate one's self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until the latter, who is never called anything but our mother, notifies the culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall that she can rise.†   (source)
  • They who composed the outer circle of faces were on tiptoe to gaze; and even the culprit for an instant forgot his shame in a deeper emotion, and exposed his abject features, in order to cast an anxious and troubled glance at the dark assemblage of chiefs.†   (source)
  • "The dolt," said Jehan Frollo of the Mill, to his friend Robin Poussepain (for the two students had followed the culprit, as was to have been expected), "he understands no more than a cockchafer shut up in a box!"†   (source)
  • According to their accounts a reaction took place at that time in Russia also, and the chief culprit was Alexander I, the same man who according to them was the chief cause of the liberal movement at the commencement of his reign, being the savior of Russia.†   (source)
  • But Tom, you perceive, was rather a Rhadamanthine personage, having more than the usual share of boy's justice in him,—the justice that desires to hurt culprits as much as they deserve to be hurt, and is troubled with no doubts concerning the exact amount of their deserts.†   (source)
  • How, after interminable attendance and correspondence, after infinite impertinences, ignorances, and insults, my lords made a Minute, number three thousand four hundred and seventy-two, allowing the culprit to make certain trials of his invention at his own expense.†   (source)
  • That he had looked up from a letter to ask his questions completely shut out from Farfrae's mind all vision of Lucetta as the culprit.†   (source)
  • But even that refuge proved unavailing, for he was delivered over to the enemy, with a "Be gentle with him, John," which struck the culprit with dismay, for when Mamma deserted him, then the judgment day was at hand.†   (source)
  • There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature—whatever be the delinquencies of the individual—no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do.†   (source)
  • No hint of this had reached the culprits, however, and Amy's dismay can be imagined, when, the very evening before the fair, as she was putting the last touches to her pretty table, Mrs. Chester, who, of course, resented the supposed ridicule of her daughter, said, in a bland tone, but with a cold look….†   (source)
  • Bitzer, still holding the paralysed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight.†   (source)
  • —Alas, the poor child had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow.†   (source)
  • As an ingenious man, he had necessarily to encounter every discouragement that the ruling powers for a length of time had been able by any means to put in the way of this class of culprits; but that was only reasonable self-defence in the powers, since How to do it must obviously be regarded as the natural and mortal enemy of How not to do it.†   (source)
  • Discerning the impracticable state of the poor culprit's mind, the elder clergyman, who had carefully prepared himself for the occasion, addressed to the multitude a discourse on sin, in all its branches, but with continual reference to the ignominious letter.†   (source)
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