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  • Yesterday must have pushed her mind over the edge—seeing her mother, fixing Aires' car, almost becoming a felon.†   (source)
  • Felons don't work at the Circle.†   (source)
  • Is Patch a felon?†   (source)
  • Neither the name of Smith or Hickock was reflected in the felon registration file.†   (source)
  • Crider bused in workers from a homeless shelter, and even cut a deal with local corrections officials that resulted in a controversial program to compel probationers and convicted felons to work in the plant as part of their restitution for their crimes.†   (source)
  • A study of imprisoned felons showed that even before the Brady Act, only about one-fifth of the criminals had bought their guns through a licensed dealer.†   (source)
  • I might be a convicted felon, but as the daughter of teachers, I had a strong aversion to cheating on tests.†   (source)
  • …supposed to smoke, and it surprised me to see this, I remember, an officer cupping a smoke between his knees, because I'd shot a man dead and thought I was being taken into a system where the rules were consistent and strict, and the other thing I remember is that no one put a hand on my head and folded me into the car because evidently this was not something they did at the time, this was something they developed later, preventing the felon from bumping his head when they took him in.†   (source)
  • We waited for ten minutes after the car drove away, then, unrepentant little felons that we were, broke in.†   (source)
  • He had never had his picture in the newspapers except as a felon.†   (source)
  • As far as he knew, she might be a felon with a list of heinous crimes on her rap sheet.†   (source)
  • I hope you know that some of them are serious felons.†   (source)
  • In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked "upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr."†   (source)
  • Offstage, Laura Keene's life is not so tidy—she pretends to be married to her business manager, but in truth she is secretly married to a convicted felon who has run off to Australia.†   (source)
  • Like a felon suddenly thrown into solitary confinement, I found myself feeding off the unburned fat of inward resources I barely knew I possessed.†   (source)
  • "Well," I said, "when all the dogs and cats were eaten the Government passed a law that we should eat felons.†   (source)
  • Artemis is no felon, miss, he is a genius.†   (source)
  • He had also been a former juvenile felon.†   (source)
  • Our convicted felon here has come to grips with personal morality.†   (source)
  • It would be less of a reminder to the judge and the gallery that he was a convicted felon.†   (source)
  • "I thought your words were very well chosen," said the former judge to the felon from Paris.†   (source)
  • You see before you a felon, justly tried and justly convicted.†   (source)
  • "felon"—identities they cannot change regardless of the circumstances of their crimes or any improvements they might make in their lives.†   (source)
  • Felons are very persuasive people.†   (source)
  • My daughter does sometimes go to the city with her friends, and what a felon says to you has no weight at all.†   (source)
  • I didn't want her officially listed as a runaway, as I was afraid the designation would remain indefinitely on her personal records, and I knew I could count on Officer Como to keep a watch on the place and its frequent visitors—mostly men in their twenties and thirties, many, according to her, known troublemakers and felons—and be publicly discreet about Sunny's habitation.†   (source)
  • You're a desperate sniveling drunk and I'll deny your insane allegations as the alcoholic fantasies of a convicted felon!†   (source)
  • He's an original, Mo, and where the majority of felons in his league blame everyone but themselves, he doesn't.†   (source)
  • How dare you compare Sir Lancelot to a felon?†   (source)
  • You fly like a felon.†   (source)
  • To his mind Lamorak deserved death, like a felon, because he and his father had injured the Orkney clan.†   (source)
  • He would have to do it in the felon's way "ungirt, unshod, bareheaded, in his bare shirt as if he were hanged on a gallows.†   (source)
  • I said: I shall do to thee as a felon or a traitor, for ye be the untruest knight that ever came out of so worthy an house.†   (source)
  • His future closed about him as he went Fifteen days to Dover was the time assigned to any felon who had taken sanctuary.†   (source)
  • One might show you the execution of a felon, or show you one's little finger.†   (source)
  • A common man, an impostor, a felon, was never thus waited upon.†   (source)
  • 'Here's the vagrant—the felon—the rebel—the monster of unthankfulness.'†   (source)
  • And Dunstan's mind was as dull as the mind of a possible felon usually is.†   (source)
  • The felon's home in a penitentiary is preferable.†   (source)
  • "Yes," replied the count; "a felon named Caderousse."†   (source)
  • And I've been visiting to Bath because I had a felon on my thumb; yes, and I've seen—ahok-hok!"†   (source)
  • Do you know he is a convict, a felon, a common thief?'†   (source)
  • I am the lineal descendant of that infant—I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!†   (source)
  • Stooping over, he kissed on the fair cheek his fellow-man, a felon in martial law, one who though on the confines of death he felt he could never convert to a dogma; nor for all that did he fear for his future.†   (source)
  • Send me to the galleys and chain me to the felon whose number happens to be next before mine; and I must accept the inevitable and make the best of the companionship.†   (source)
  • A felon.†   (source)
  • The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon.†   (source)
  • Syllables so unanticipated coming from one with the ignominious hemp about his neck—a conventional felon's benediction directed aft towards the quarters of honor; syllables too delivered in the clear melody of a singing-bird on the point of launching from the twig, had a phenomenal effect, not unenhanced by the rare personal beauty of the young sailor spiritualized now thro' late experiences so poignantly profound.†   (source)
  • Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men.†   (source)
  • Lydgate pleaded for those whose fathers and mothers had over-eaten themselves, but Mrs. Farebrother held that view of things dangerous: Nature was more just than that; it would be easy for any felon to say that his ancestors ought to have been hanged instead of him.†   (source)
  • In our station-houses, men and women are every night confined on the most trivial charges—the word is worth noting—in dungeons, compared with which, those in Newgate, occupied by the most atrocious felons, tried, found guilty, and under sentence of death, are palaces.†   (source)
  • I am almost ashamed to own--yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own--that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be possible to conceive.†   (source)
  • "He hev been away from home for a few days, since he's had that felon upon his finger; for 'a said, since I can't work I'll have a hollerday."†   (source)
  • Mighty, glorious Spirit, who hast vouchsafed to me Thine apparition, who knowest my heart and my soul, why fetter me to the felon-comrade, who feeds on mischief and gluts himself with ruin?†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit and his matchless castle were disembarked among the dirty white houses and dirtier felons of Civita Vecchia, and thence scrambled on to Rome as they could, through the filth that festered on the way.†   (source)
  • He died a more wretched, hopeless, heart-broken prisoner than the felons who pay the penalty of their crimes at the galleys of Toulon.†   (source)
  • They are right in this much—that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them, of course.†   (source)
  • If I had often thought before, with something allied to shame, of my companionship with the fugitive whom I had once seen limping among those graves, what were my thoughts on this Sunday, when the place recalled the wretch, ragged and shivering, with his felon iron and badge!†   (source)
  • "That was a felon stroke!" exclaimed the Black Knight, as the steed fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with him.†   (source)
  • 'If he hesitates or moves a finger but as you bid him, drag him into the street, call for the aid of the police, and impeach him as a felon in my name.'†   (source)
  • …it on his legs and cutting his food,—of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,—of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,—in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.†   (source)
  • The people laughed and applauded; then, while they were listening for a reply, the other felon was heard to say to the first one, "Dost thou not fear God?†   (source)
  • Why this preternatural felon should be obliged to wait till the door was left unlocked, was a question which did not present itself.†   (source)
  • The felon knight, who had taken another spear, watching the moment when his formidable antagonist was most closely pressed, galloped against him in hopes to nail him with his lance against the tree, when his purpose was again intercepted by Wamba.†   (source)
  • 'He is an idle ruffian,' said Ralph; 'a vagabond from beyond the sea where he travelled for his crimes; a felon let loose to run his neck into the halter; a swindler, who has the audacity to try his schemes on me who know him well.†   (source)
  • So felons were not lodged and fed better than soldiers, (to say nothing of paupers,) and seldom set fire to their prisons with the excusable object of improving the flavor of their soup.†   (source)
  • "The cider went up my nose!" cried Cainy, as soon as he could speak; "and now 'tis gone down my neck, and into my poor dumb felon, and over my shiny buttons and all my best cloze!"†   (source)
  • The bystanders were astonished; in the midst of the hush which ensued, the second felon spoke again, but this time to the Nazarene: "Lord," he said, "remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."†   (source)
  • You received a second fortune, money and tranquillity were restored to you, and you, who had been condemned to a felon's life, might live as other men.†   (source)
  • The Rules are a certain liberty adjoining the prison, and comprising some dozen streets in which debtors who can raise money to pay large fees, from which their creditors do NOT derive any benefit, are permitted to reside by the wise provisions of the same enlightened laws which leave the debtor who can raise no money to starve in jail, without the food, clothing, lodging, or warmth, which are provided for felons convicted of the most atrocious crimes that can disgrace humanity.†   (source)
  • …they went by on foot, on horseback, on camels, in litters and chariots, and with an infinite variety of costumes, yet with the same marvellous similitude of features which to-day particularizes the children of Israel, tried as they have been by climates and modes of life; they went by speaking all known tongues, for by that means only were they distinguishable group from group; they went by in haste—eager, anxious, crowding—all to behold one poor Nazarene die, a felon between felons.†   (source)
  • Caderousse, awed by the superior power of the abbe, sat down and wrote:— Sir,—The man whom you are receiving at your house, and to whom you intend to marry your daughter, is a felon who escaped with me from confinement at Toulon.†   (source)
  • …they went by on foot, on horseback, on camels, in litters and chariots, and with an infinite variety of costumes, yet with the same marvellous similitude of features which to-day particularizes the children of Israel, tried as they have been by climates and modes of life; they went by speaking all known tongues, for by that means only were they distinguishable group from group; they went by in haste—eager, anxious, crowding—all to behold one poor Nazarene die, a felon between felons.†   (source)
  • She looked, and as she scanned the distance she said in her own heart, 'Surely this is some felon; where is he going now?'†   (source)
  • Truly, sir, I saw every deal, how and in what wise, and therefore, sir, how should I suffer in your presence such a felon and traitor as Sir Palomides; for I saw him with mine eyes, how he beheld you when ye went out of the field.†   (source)
  • And so by fortune they came into this land, that at that time was called Great Britain; and there they found a great felon paynim, that put Joseph into prison.†   (source)
  • And so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that hight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon paynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison.†   (source)
  • And it was red as blood, with black letters as any coal, which said: He that shall praise me most, most shall he find me to blame at a great need; and to whom I should be most debonair shall I be most felon, and that shall be at one time.†   (source)
  • Right so he went in and took his harness, and mounted upon his horse, and came to-fore him and said: Bors, keep thee from me, for I shall do to thee as I would to a felon or a traitor, for ye be the untruest knight that ever came out of so worthy an house as was King Bors de Ganis which was our father, therefore start upon thy horse, and so shall ye be most at your advantage.†   (source)
  • Condemned to die, he begged to be beheaded like a gentleman, rather than hanged as a felon.†   (source)
  • He had been to the Castle only a few days before to see whether I could treat a persistent felon on his thumb.†   (source)
  • And the man is presently in"—he consulted his pile of papers again—"in one of the large cells in the west block, with several other condemned felons.†   (source)
  • Who has been wise receives interest, Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same, The interest will come round—all will come round.†   (source)
  • …with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend, The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong 'd made right, The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave, The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd, The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,…†   (source)
  • Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial, The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied; The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics, The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple, The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town, They pass, I also pass, any…†   (source)
  • You Felons on Trial in Courts You felons on trial in courts, You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron, Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?†   (source)
  • Believe what they tell you, stoke up your wrath, And drive me like a felon from your path.†   (source)
  • Thus branded as a felon by myself, How had I dared to look you in the face?†   (source)
  • I do defy thy conjurations, And apprehend thee for a felon here.†   (source)
  • But he, the King of Heav'n, obscure on high, Bar'd his red arm, and, launching from the sky His writhen bolt, not shaking empty smoke, Down to the deep abyss the flaming felon strook.†   (source)
  • …condition I had been in for some years, I had not kept up any correspondence with them; and that he would easily believe, I should find but a cold reception from them if I should be put to make my first visit in the condition of a transported felon; that therefore, if I went thither, I resolved not to see them; but that I had many views in going there, if it should be my fate, which took off all the uneasy part of it; and if he found himself obliged to go also, I should easily instruct…†   (source)
  • Truly, sir, I saw every deal, how and in what wise, and therefore, sir, how should I suffer in your presence such a felon and traitor as Sir Palomides; for I saw him with mine eyes, how he beheld you when ye went out of the field.†   (source)
  • "I repeat that I grant it," replied Don Quixote; "and so, lady, you may from this day forth lay aside the melancholy that distresses you, and let your failing hopes gather new life and strength, for with the help of God and of my arm you will soon see yourself restored to your kingdom, and seated upon the throne of your ancient and mighty realm, notwithstanding and despite of the felons who would gainsay it; and now hands to the work, for in delay there is apt to be danger."†   (source)
  • [1] If thou considerest well this doctrine, and bringest to mind who are those that up above, outside,[2] suffer punishment, thou wilt see clearly why from these felons they are divided, and why less wroth the divine vengeance hammers them.†   (source)
  • …or other provide a good husband for her in the end—either Blifil, or my lord, or somebody else; but as to poor Jones, such are the calamities in which he is at present involved, owing to his imprudence, by which if a man doth not become felon to the world, he is at least a felo de se; so destitute is he now of friends, and so persecuted by enemies, that we almost despair of bringing him to any good; and if our reader delights in seeing executions, I think he ought not to lose any…†   (source)
  • One gate there only was, and that looked east On the other side: which when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdained; and, in contempt, At one flight bound high over-leaped all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet.†   (source)
  • And so by fortune they came into this land, that at that time was called Great Britain; and there they found a great felon paynim, that put Joseph into prison.†   (source)
  • An outlaw's exile or a felon's death.†   (source)
  • And so by fortune tidings came unto a worthy man that hight Mondrames, and he assembled all his people for the great renown he had heard of Joseph; and so he came into the land of Great Britain and disherited this felon paynim and consumed him, and therewith delivered Joseph out of prison.†   (source)
  • And it was red as blood, with black letters as any coal, which said: He that shall praise me most, most shall he find me to blame at a great need; and to whom I should be most debonair shall I be most felon, and that shall be at one time.†   (source)
  • Right so he went in and took his harness, and mounted upon his horse, and came to-fore him and said: Bors, keep thee from me, for I shall do to thee as I would to a felon or a traitor, for ye be the untruest knight that ever came out of so worthy an house as was King Bors de Ganis which was our father, therefore start upon thy horse, and so shall ye be most at your advantage.†   (source)
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