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  • Victims of an enormous fraud, and at the same time its perpetrators, or so I felt.†   (source)
  • I can only hope I am not one day judged a perpetrator or a collaborator.†   (source)
  • A massive and highly publicized manhunt for the perpetrators ensued.†   (source)
  • People began to assume it was all just an outlandish hoax perpetrated by a rich nut job.†   (source)
  • Joe was made to say in court what the victim remembered her assailant saying to her, but she testified that Joe's voice "could very easily be" that of the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • It's my understanding that the crime-scene technicians didn't find any fingerprints they could establish as belonging to a perpetrator.†   (source)
  • …Church Nativity When I suggested that his response to their presence in the congregation had been radical and severe, he dismissed me in a fashion he'd perfected— by forgiving me for what I couldn't be expected to know, and what he would never explain to me: that old UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE that the Catholics had perpetrated, and his parents' inability to rise above what amounted to the RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION they had suffered; yet it was my opinion that Owen was persecuting his parents.†   (source)
  • "Then she must be made an example of," said Sybil, quite coolly, "and the true perpetrator can thus suffer the guilt, which is often a far worse punishment."†   (source)
  • Some of the perpetrators were dead; some of them were in custody, others were at large.†   (source)
  • Though the investigation into the perpetrators was completed quickly, 2001 drifted to an uneventful close for us.†   (source)
  • But to the cops, he was just another black perpetrator with a story, and he was arrested and jailed.†   (source)
  • And this crime, among all others, seems like the most difficult thing to prevent, given the perpetrators are ostensibly part of the family, right?†   (source)
  • The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were.†   (source)
  • Said that he had violated the SPAC, the Suspected Perpetrator Apprehension Code.†   (source)
  • I went from victim to perpetrator to witness to revolutionary.†   (source)
  • You are the victims, not the perpetrators.†   (source)
  • And the Bolshevik Revolution too allowed terrible atrocities to be perpetrated on the ruling class by the animal instincts of subhuman men who were full of hatred.†   (source)
  • The perpetrator seems to be an expert woodsman and mountaineer.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we have the perpetrator in custody and will be able to put him on trial.†   (source)
  • And for me to strap up his arm in a splint would have meant my becoming one of the main perpetrators of the joke.†   (source)
  • It was Carl's heart that was now in question, whether he wanted to redress a wrong his own mother had perpetrated.†   (source)
  • A chance to be perpetrated.†   (source)
  • There was also what was usually defined as "random violence," when the perpetrator and victim did not know each other.†   (source)
  • Count One: That on or about the fifteenth day of November, 1959, one Richard Eugene Hickock did unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and with deliberation and premeditation, and while being engaged in the perpetration of a felony, kill and take the life of Herbert W. Clutter.†   (source)
  • It's unclear as to who the perpetrator or perpetrators were.†   (source)
  • Perpetrator.†   (source)
  • The perpetrators, after all, weren't thinking about their private actions being made public.†   (source)
  • I further speculate that the Americans were fearful of our reaction were we to suspect that they had perpetrated this entire affair as a CIA operation.†   (source)
  • She is twelve years old and her name is being withheld even though she is neither the victim nor the perpetrator of the crime but only the means of recording it.†   (source)
  • One study suggests that women perpetrators were involved, along with men, in one quarter of the gang rapes in the Sierra Leone civil war.†   (source)
  • The unidentified perpetrators planned to injure him, drug him, or hold him hostage on the day of the race, preventing him from riding and leaving Howard and Smith little time to find a qualified jockey.†   (source)
  • It would be years before I read of the atrocities the Japanese military machine had perpetrated on millions of people; years before I discovered that the "self-defense" rationale I was spouting off about had been rejected by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal as bogus.†   (source)
  • Like I was perpetrating some crime by not telling, and every night I was waiting for the nightmares to call me on it, to turn me in.†   (source)
  • In front of the glorious ruins, a reminder for now and eternity of the evils perpetrated by war, stood a steel-bar reviewing stand for some demonstration or other that the Communist Party had herded the people of Prague to the day before or would be herding them to the day after.†   (source)
  • They stood before me, these perpetrators of organized violence on my body.†   (source)
  • He d heard that any infraction against the royal house was punishable by death to the perpetrator s entire family.†   (source)
  • But I knew being with the perpetrators wasn't enough.†   (source)
  • Were it to happen again, the perpetrators would be subjected to the severest punishment.†   (source)
  • With this perpetrator, electronic investigation isn't primary, though Captain Feeney's help is invaluable.†   (source)
  • In this regard, who do we blame for the vicious act perpetrated upon poor Mr. Williamson?†   (source)
  • If he learned what had really happened to that 747, if treachery was indeed involved, and if he discovered who was responsible, the perpetrators would kill him before he could lift a hand against them.†   (source)
  • You have heard some malcontent perpetrating slander….†   (source)
  • Attempted coups and killings were perpetrated by both sides.†   (source)
  • When Emmett's body is returned to Chicago, his mother insists on an open casket at the funeral, so that the whole world can see the crime perpetrated against her son.†   (source)
  • How can you face anyone after the sort of irresponsible destruction you've perpetrated in that Mexican business?†   (source)
  • 'All the talk in the barracks is speculation as to the identities of the perpetrators of this perfect crime.†   (source)
  • "I can feel your rage at the injustice that is being perpetrated here, my friends," Tappan continued.†   (source)
  • I never reported the incidents, or confronted the perpetrators, and eventually these annoyances ceased.†   (source)
  • The raid that Drizzt was describing might well have been one perpetrated by the ferocious Tribe of the Elk.†   (source)
  • Nor could any of Alpha Group's assets identify the two perpetrators.†   (source)
  • Real evil, the suffocating evil of Auschwitz—gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring—was perpetrated almost exclusively by civilians.†   (source)
  • Fainting repeatedly from loss of blood, the dying man told them in a faltering voice of the tortures and atrocities perpetrated by Vitsyn's investigating and punitive squads.†   (source)
  • I'll unmask the perpetrators!†   (source)
  • You are quite right — they can detect magic, but not the perpetrator:   (source)
    perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
  • You've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard.   (source)
    perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
  • So officially he's our perpetrator, understand?   (source)
    perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
  • In both cases, the hoax was originally perpetrated as a practical joke, but public interest escalated so quickly that confessions were rendered difficult.   (source)
    perpetrated = done (something wrong or illegal)
  • How much worse would it have been for June if DNA testing had existed back then—if the alleged rape of Elizabeth had proved Kurt as the perpetrator?   (source)
    perpetrator = someone who did something wrong or illegal
  • It was committed in the presence of slaves, and they of course could neither institute a suit, nor testify against him; and thus the guilty perpetrator of one of the bloodiest and most foul murders goes unwhipped of justice, and uncensured by the community in which he lives.   (source)
  • So he ended up here on this embankment And apparently the perpetrator knew where he was.†   (source)
  • Another android caught glimpses of the act from afar, but only of the perpetrator's back.†   (source)
  • The perpetrator didn't seem ill, though."†   (source)
  • It was because of the perpetrator, Alexander Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • Observe the triple fraud which he perpetrates upon himself.†   (source)
  • Possible theory: Perpetrator gained confidence, enjoyment in subsequent murders.†   (source)
  • A quite clever fraud perpetrated against that widow you represent.†   (source)
  • Are the two murders connected in any way other than the perpetrator and the method?†   (source)
  • Who had been the perpetrator, I wondered, now that Morris Fink was absolved of the crime?†   (source)
  • He would have them know this country was at war, that while our boys—our brothers and sons—were fighting and dying for us, someone directed an obscene act of defilement at them, an act the perpetrator of which was beneath contempt.†   (source)
  • They account for most of the crime and many of those are perpetrated against women and," he paused, "children."†   (source)
  • Finally, the prosecution presented testimony from the victim, who, despite being coached through a rehearsal of her testimony outside the presence of the jury, could not affirmatively identify Joe Sullivan as the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • The murder occurred in the family barn, but what aroused the most attention was the fact that the perpetrator, after committing the murder, had tied her up in a kneeling position inside a horse stall.†   (source)
  • So it would be an advantage if Bjurman's death occurred in such a complicated manner that it would be highly unlikely that a mentally handicapped girl could be the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • When I was finally able as an adult to sit with my mother and name the specific sexual and physical violence my father had perpetrated on me as a child, it was an impossible moment.†   (source)
  • He did not tell Adams, as he had Washington, that he had Adams specifically in mind as the perpetrator of "heresies."†   (source)
  • The method and the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • New evidence suggested that the perpetrator may have been driving a black Ford Taurus and was last seen headed south on Highway 71.†   (source)
  • He was willing to believe his father the victim of some sort of injustice that predated and explained the injustice his father had perpetrated on him.†   (source)
  • The perpetrator was an Israeli Arab from a village located inside the heavily Palestinian corner of the country known as the Triangle.†   (source)
  • During the ensuing journey they perpetrated torture upon Ruiz and Montes, including regular beatings and deprivation of food and water.†   (source)
  • For us it's important to bear in mind that this is a case of criminal activity perpetrated by a small number of individuals."†   (source)
  • It was the black miscreants who perpetrated mutiny, murder, and the repeated torture of my clients during a harrowing voyage of more than eight weeks.†   (source)
  • If the snide stunt you people perpetrated on the Phoenix-Durango was done for the purpose of saving yourself from the necessity of effort, this is to give you notice that you will not get away with it.†   (source)
  • They made no distinction between Arab and Jew, victim and perpetrator; they treated anyone who came through their door, including some of Israel's most dangerous enemies.†   (source)
  • Tomas followed the dispute closely (as did his ten million fellow Czechs) and was of the opinion that while there had definitely been Communists who were not completely unaware of the atrocities (they could not have been ignorant of the horrors that had been perpetrated and were still being perpetrated in postrevolutionary Russia), it was probable that the majority of the Communists had not in fact known of them.†   (source)
  • It was solely due to the darkness of their skin that Mr. Gedney immediately presumed them as property, as slaves and criminals who were perpetrating nefarious acts.†   (source)
  • Probability Roarke perpetrator given current data and supposition, eighty-two point six per cent. Oh, it was possible, Eve thought, leaning back in her chair.†   (source)
  • But Baldwin was a man of firm morals and strong convictions, and though he did handle cases which brought him fair compensation for his services, he took many more that involved, as he put it, "pronounced injustice and injury perpetrated against the downtrodden and less fortunate."†   (source)
  • I would launch into long-winded diatribes condemning senseless violence perpetrated against helpless creatures while the class nodded in solemn agreement.†   (source)
  • The letter was written in a fit of Conroy passion, the tiny bellicose Irishman residing in my genes and collective unconscious urging me on and whispering to me that a great injustice was being perpetrated and that it was up to me to expose this condition to the person with the ability and training to do something about it.†   (source)
  • The chopped-off arm and leg were tied! in terrible bleeding chunks onto his back with a small wooden board attached to them; a long inscription on it said, with many words of abuse, that the atrocity was in reprisal for similar atrocities perpetrated by such and such a Red unit-a unit that, had no connection with the Forest Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • The doctor must have waited a long time to come face to face with Sophie and her children, hoping to perpetrate his ingenious deed.†   (source)
  • "sympathy" and other Christian garbage, I have an unusual and overpowering longing to perpetrate a rape.†   (source)
  • And that is that your refusal to admit responsibility in the death of Bobby Weed is the same as that of those Germans who disavowed the Nazi party even as they watched blandly and unprotestingly as the thugs vandalized the synagogues and perpetrated the Kristallnacht.†   (source)
  • Each time that day has rolled around, ticking off the years during these recent domestic decades, it has been my association of the date with Sophie which has given me a twinge of real anguish when I have been exposed to those small, sweet, silly tricks perpetrated by my children ("April fool, Daddy!†   (source)
  • The Commandant was a homebody, as we shall observe, but one dedicated blindly to duty and a cause; thus he became a mere servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence.†   (source)
  • All hands would be on deck to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to justice.†   (source)
  • The perpetrators of this outrage are being sought, with several suspects already identified.†   (source)
  • Esthappen and Rahel both knew that there were several perpetrators (besides themselves) that day.†   (source)
  • "Because I wanted to catch the perpetrators," Officer Delinko replied.†   (source)
  • It's unclear as to who the perpetrator or perpetrators were.†   (source)
  • A psychosocial construct that might resemble those of other perpetrators of school violence.†   (source)
  • I also wanted to make certain they were pursuing the perpetrators with appropriate vigor.†   (source)
  • Jews are perpetrators of many forms of gross evil but they are not rapists.†   (source)
  • You can imagine the kind of thing… so-called protective potions that are really gravy with a bit of bubotuber pus added, or instructions for defensive jinxes that actually make your ears fall off… Well, in the main the perpetrators are just people like Mundungus Hotelier, who've never done an honest day's work in their lives and are taking advantage of how frightened everybody is, but every now and then something really nasty turns up.†   (source)
  • I submit to you that there's no need to go beyond these two when you look for the perpetrators of this crime.†   (source)
  • The perpetrators of all this, as Mrs. Heine has taken pains to point out, are no longer among us, so their culpability is not at issue.†   (source)
  • That may sound odd, but it is understandable: the subject was intolerable to all concerned, victims and perpetrators alike, although obviously for opposite reasons.†   (source)
  • This was a botched robbery in which the perpetrators actually took very little money and a few cartons of cigarettes.†   (source)
  • "However," he said, "let it be known that this court is not concerned with any perpetrators of violations against our state's now— blessedly so—defunct Alien Land Law.†   (source)
  • Initially they were conducted clumsily, as if the perpetrators felt ashamed of this new means of tormenting people, and they had not had any practice anyway.†   (source)
  • This takes him into a much more pro-Union territory, where the Lincoln assassination has people demanding vengeance on the perpetrators.†   (source)
  • Girls—victims; boys—perpetrators.†   (source)
  • The victims return to their lives--which are often in shambles--and hours later I find myself face-to-face with the perpetrators.†   (source)
  • If one recognizes the condition of structural violence, one can understand that profound racist prejudice and outbursts of murderous violence are part of a continuum of ever-present violence in which violence is the answer to violence, and in which victims temporarily become perpetrators and then victims again.†   (source)
  • She helped convene survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda for intensive community reconciliation processes.†   (source)
  • The would-be mages, however, men who somehow had come into a degree of magical prowess, whether they had found a scroll or a master's spellbook or some relic, were often the perpetrators of colossal calamities.†   (source)
  • Dr. Satten, who afterward gave the case close attention, suggests that though the crime would not have occurred except for a certain frictional interplay between the perpetrators, it was essentially the act of Perry Smith, who, he feels, represents a type of murderer described by him in an article: "Murder Without Apparent Motive-A Study in Personality Disorganization."†   (source)
  • And then, unless the girl kills herself, the family has to move away; otherwise, the perpetrators--who are usually rich and well connected--will terrorize the family and eliminate them as witnesses.†   (source)
  • It was a big stretch for me, loving both perpetrators and victims' families, and most of the time I fail because so often the victims' families interpret my care for perpetrators as choosing sides--the wrong side.†   (source)
  • I cannot work under the terms of Directive 10-289-though not for the reason its perpetrators intended.†   (source)
  • We have been informed that she was a prostitute, so there could have been a number of other possible perpetrators.†   (source)
  • They saw it as evidence that the perpetrators were inspired by a creed other than radical Islam, though when pressed to name one, they could not.†   (source)
  • What grounds existed within the law to hold the children since they had been declared witnesses and not perpetrators?†   (source)
  • The second woman, said the chief of the DGSI, was Safia Bourihane, one of the perpetrators of the attack on the Weinberg Center.†   (source)
  • For even if we do not personally own slaves, even if we do not hold prejudices against the darker races, if we permit such things to occur, we are as guilty and as sinful in the eyes of the Lord as the perpetrators of such heinous acts.†   (source)
  • A senior French police official called it "an unpleasant distraction" from the immediate task at hand, which was finding the perpetrators.†   (source)
  • And so, as the whole of the French security establishment searched for the two perpetrators of the Weinberg Center attack, Rousseau's gaze was already fixed resolutely upon a distant shore.†   (source)
  • Dina was the Office's top terrorism specialist, a human database who could recite the time, place, perpetrators, and casualty toll of every act of Palestinian or Islamic terrorism committed against Israel and the West.†   (source)
  • In Washington the American president condemned the bombing as "a wanton act of murder and barbarism," though, curiously, he made no mention of the perpetrators' motives or of Islam, radical or otherwise.†   (source)
  • And there was no clue as to the perpetrator of the deed?†   (source)
  • This was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.†   (source)
  • I am sure you all wish to co-operate in bringing the perpetrator of that foul crime to justice.†   (source)
  • Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?†   (source)
  • Saint Anthony, practicing his austerities in the Egyptian Thebaid, was troubled by voluptuous hallucinations perpetrated by female devils attracted to his magnetic solitude.†   (source)
  • I don't understand what happened to Belle Reve but you don't know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.†   (source)
  • They kept the negroes stirred up with tales of cruelty perpetrated by the whites and, in a section long famed for the affectionate relations between slaves and slave owners, hate and suspicion began to grow.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were alert now, insolently guilty, like the eyes of a child who has just perpetrated some nasty little joke.†   (source)
  • Tell him about that difference between him … [He gets no answer from the huddled little group which is restraining Tom Junior perpetrating murder right there in the cocktail lounge.†   (source)
  • Peter had indeed perpetrated this outrage a year or two before.†   (source)
  • No wonder the artist retired within or behind his handiwork after having perpetrated this country.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some new devilry of the gods was about to be perpetrated on him.†   (source)
  • Should he ignore his father's testament, or allow the perpetration of a crime!†   (source)
  • Yes, and you maintained that the perpetration of a crime is always accompanied by illness.†   (source)
  • So that, though close to the turnpike-road, crimes might be perpetrated there unseen at mid-day.†   (source)
  • "And who was the perpetrator of this deed?" demanded Middleton.†   (source)
  • Even he could not admit that the perpetrator, if any, might be Farfrae.†   (source)
  • How many thousands of times, on the trails, and in the wide-streeted little towns all over the West, had this stalk of the cowboy's been perpetrated!†   (source)
  • Jim Hall believed that the judge knew all about it and was hand in glove with the police in the perpetration of the monstrous injustice.†   (source)
  • It was as close as Dick had ever come to comprehending such a character from any but the pathological angle—he gathered that this very charm made it possible for Francisco to perpetrate his outrages, and, for Dick, charm always had an independent existence, whether it was the mad gallantry of the wretch who had died in the clinic this morning, or the courageous grace which this lost young man brought to a drab old story.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the child's simple belief that stars were holes in the tent of heaven through which eternal brightness shone was many thousand times clearer to his heart than all the empty, absurd, and presumptuous babble about the "cosmos" perpetrated by monistic science.†   (source)
  • I repeat I dare say I have committed many a grievous sin in my day; but I cannot help always looking back upon this as the worst action I have ever perpetrated.†   (source)
  • They performed the dizziest feats of arithmetic, soaring quite out of MY feeble range, and perpetrated, in higher spirits than ever, geographical and historical jokes.†   (source)
  • That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process.†   (source)
  • I had no time to think of the fresh horror that was preparing; I forgot that the monster was only going out perhaps to perpetrate a fresh crime; I understood but one thing: Christine was alone behind the wall!†   (source)
  • In a fit of anger, however, caused by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital sentence.†   (source)
  • Jurgis heard of these things little by little, in the gossip of those who were obliged to perpetrate them.†   (source)
  • Or, where that was not possible, the perpetrator of the infamy having decamped, it was his general and self-consciously sanctioned practice to have nothing at all to do with the matter.†   (source)
  • …behind Naphta's back in tones of pathos-laden admonition about the Jesuit, as if he were somehow diabolic, Naphta made unperturbed fun of the other man and the sphere he came from, suggesting that the whole thing was terribly old-fashioned and backward, an attempt at bourgeois enlightenment perpetrated by yesterday's freethinkers, when in fact it was nothing more than a wretched intellectual mirage, which its self-deluded adherents ludicrously believed was full of revolutionary life.†   (source)
  • He did not contradict his clever and eloquent counsel, who argued that the brain fever, or inflammation of the brain, was the cause of the crime; clearly proving that this malady had existed long before the murder was perpetrated, and had been brought on by the sufferings of the accused.†   (source)
  • Immediately he decided not to answer any questions in regard to this letter, since it promised a quick solution of the mystery of the perpetrator of the crime, if there had been one, plus exceptional credit in the present political situation to whosoever should appear to be instrumental in the same.†   (source)
  • Nastasia Philipovna was quite capable of ruining herself, and even of perpetrating something which would send her to Siberia, for the mere pleasure of injuring a man for whom she had developed so inhuman a sense of loathing and contempt.†   (source)
  • Woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ancestry.†   (source)
  • Some of these stood respectfully at a distance; but two of them, women, perpetrated the hostile act of clutching the master around the neck.†   (source)
  • Awkward as it was for Levin to withdraw now, it would still have been easier for him to perpetrate this awkwardness than to remain all the evening and see Kitty, who glanced at him now and then and avoided his eyes.†   (source)
  • But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!†   (source)
  • But who perpetrated that joke, let me ask? neither you nor myself, but Fernand; you knew very well that I threw the paper into a corner of the room—indeed, I fancied I had destroyed it.†   (source)
  • I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.†   (source)
  • Mind, I don't say a CRIME; I am not speaking of shedding of blood or any other guilty act, which might make the perpetrator amenable to the law: my word is ERROR.†   (source)
  • "But more persuadable we can, I hope," said I. "And let me entreat you to consider that the clearing up of this mystery and the discovery of the real perpetrator of this deed may be of the last importance to others besides yourself."†   (source)
  • But it is principally upon their own languages that democratic nations attempt to perpetrate innovations.†   (source)
  • Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.†   (source)
  • The South is not "solid"; it is a land in the ferment of social change, wherein forces of all kinds are fighting for supremacy; and to praise the ill the South is today perpetrating is just as wrong as to condemn the good.†   (source)
  • After her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement, that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mischief to the poor babe.†   (source)
  • An innocent man is now imprisoned, charged with that crime of which you can point out the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • There are things most necessary to be done, the perpetrator of which we neither love nor honour; and there may be refusals to serve us, which shall rather exalt in our estimation those who deny our request.†   (source)
  • It is indeed difficult to imagine that there could have been a serious suspicion of murder, or the slightest grounds for implicating any particular individual as the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • If I were superstitious, I should be almost inclined to believe that some dreadful crime had been perpetrated within these old walls, and that the place had never prospered since.†   (source)
  • Honest men and gentlemen, if they don't want the company of people who perpetrate such acts, have got to defend themselves as they best can, and that is what I and the friends whom I may call my clients in this affair are determined to do.†   (source)
  • He turned to Mitya, and delivered himself in a loud, firm, dignified voice: "Ex-Lieutenant Karamazov, it is my duty to inform you that you are charged with the murder of your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, perpetrated this night…."†   (source)
  • "I wish—" answered the latter, "I have just been swindled and cheated, and I cannot get hold of the perpetrator.†   (source)
  • For an instant the mother stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down at the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and smiled in her face; and then she raised her eyes and countenance toward heaven, as if calling on God to curse the perpetrator of the foul deed.†   (source)
  • English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apologists and admirers of injustice, misery, and brutality, as perpetrated among children.†   (source)
  • Mr Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; whom for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character.†   (source)
  • …nights; by a comparison of incidents and dialogue, down to the very last word he may have written a fortnight before, do your utmost to anticipate his plot—all this without his permission, and against his will; and then, to crown the whole proceeding, publish in some mean pamphlet, an unmeaning farrago of garbled extracts from his work, to which your name as author, with the honourable distinction annexed, of having perpetrated a hundred other outrages of the same description.†   (source)
  • These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath or mercy, with a sort of ennui.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, the original perpetrator and father of this mischief appears to have perpetuated himself, and still walks the street,—at least, his very image, in mind and body,—with the fairest prospect of transmitting to posterity as rich and as wretched an inheritance as he has received!†   (source)
  • She paused, weeping, and then continued, "I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated.†   (source)
  • But, under the real circumstances of the case, if we are to suppose gold the motive of this outrage, we must also imagine the perpetrator so vacillating an idiot as to have abandoned his gold and his motive together.†   (source)
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