Crimes

Examples

• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipp'd of justice! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Beneath the crimes and disorders of the palaces, the life of the city and country ran a similar course. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a time of confusion, of brigandage, of crimes unpunished and universal insecurity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• John Bull does abhor the crimes of John Chinaman. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I said, they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It accuses them of crimes intended as well as perpetrated, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But, my dear Miss Halcombe, my dear Lady Glyde, do you really believe that crimes cause their own detection? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was one of those who held that nothing should be done hastily, and that few crimes were worse than waste of time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In America we make convicts useful at the same time that we punish them for their crimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Crimes cause their own detection, do they? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Think how many mothers there are whose sons have brought them to public shame by real crimes before you feel so deeply a case like this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To father the worst of crimes on the God of peace and love! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a flying creature. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But it seems to have been thought that this kind of innocence may be punished by way of _preventing crimes_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It may be like war; along wi' it come crimes; but I think it were a greater crime to let it alone. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Crimes cause their own detection. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It was their duty to judge heinous political crimes, and from their sentence there was no appeal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Tyrannies and race hatred, national rivalries, sex problems, the difficulties of artistic endeavor, all failures, crimes, vices--there is not one which he will not relate to private capitalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But even if I were condemned to suffer on the scaffold for the same crimes, I would not change places with such a wretch. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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