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Example sentences for "great crime"

  • The world and the criminal's friends are startled some day by a great crime, but that crime is linked on to a chain of slight, occasional, sporadic vices and offences.

  • The men maintained that he must be charged with a great crime, otherwise a young nobleman of his rank would never have been arrested; the women argued, on the contrary, that it was impossible for such a pretty youth not to be innocent.

  • This was the Marquis de Saint-Maixent, who gave his orders, encouraged his people, watched over every point of his plot, himself a prey to the agonies of nervousness which accompany the preparations for a great crime.

  • The infallible instinct which is aroused among the masses is truly marvellous; a great crime is committed, which seems at first likely to defeat justice, and the public conscience is aroused.

  • He is rightly sentenced to ten years in the house of correction, and he will not be released one year or one day from the same, as he is guilty of a great crime, and his sentence is just.

  • If the daughter does not submit in perfect obedience, she will burden her conscience with a great crime, and thank herself for Moritz's unfortunate fate.

  • It is true they palliated his conduct and remained faithful to his standard; but they felt he had committed a great blunder, if it were not a great crime.

  • There never has a great crime or blunder been committed on this earth which bigoted, or narrow, or zealous partisans have not attempted to justify.

  • The Dacotahs say that it is a great crime to take their fellow's life, unless in revenge, "because all have a right to live.

  • The Koriaks do not regard murder as a great crime, unless it occur within their own tribe.

  • To kill a cow is a great crime;[45] whereas he who unhesitatingly abandons life for the sake of a cow is freed even from the guilt of the murder of a Brâhmana, and so is he who saves the life of a cow.

  • Among the For tribe of Central Africa "lying is held to be a great crime; even the youngest children are severely beaten for it, and any one over fifteen or sixteen who is an habitual liar suffers the loss of one lip as a penalty.

  • There never yet was man who committed a great crime, and did not thenceforth feel that the predominant longing of his soul was, once more to be able to "sleep in spite of thunder.

  • How dare the great law-giver, after having committed, according to the ideas of the present generation, a great crime, show his face on Mount Sinai when it was clothed with the glory of the God of Israel?

  • It was the cause, and I presume it will be acknowledged on the part even of monogamists that it was a great crime.

  • And you love Mary Leavenworth; a woman whom you yourself seem to consider capable of a great crime?

  • It is hard for a delicate girl, unused to aught but the most flattering expressions of regard, to be obliged to assure the world of her innocence in respect to the committal of a great crime.

  • Have you any reason, beyond that of natural repugnance to believing a young and beautiful woman guilty of a great crime, for saying what you have of Henry Clavering, a gentleman who has hitherto been mentioned by you with respect?

  • A great crime," the Gadfly repeated, shaking his head slowly.

  • He has been in penal servitude for a great crime, and is now doing penance.

  • A voice said to him that a single combat between him and a soldier of the cross to-day would expiate a great crime.

  • When he heard Hadji speak of the expiation of a great crime, he believed âiat the will of Heaven had been declared in these words, uttered by chance.


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