Prosecuted

Examples

• In 1826 these two gentlemen became acquainted, and conjointly prosecuted the investigations which led to the beautiful result of the Daguerreotype. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But have you never been prosecuted for begging? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The war against the vestiges of the Kin empire was prosecuted until Kin was altogether subdued (1234). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They ought to be prosecuted and fined, them Mails. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Between eighty and ninety separate suits upon Edison's fundamental lamp and detail patents were brought in the courts of the United States and prosecuted to completion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It prosecuted the King's chief ministers who had helped him to reign for so long without Parliament, and in particular the Earl of Strafford. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mine are working out their week, through fear of being prosecuted for breach of contract. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Perker, I'll have this fellow prosecuted-- indicted--I'll--I'll--I'll ruin him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When, later on, Lucius was prosecuted and condemned, Africanus rescued him by force. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was prosecuted for high treason. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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