Criminals

Examples

• The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If great criminals told the truth--which, being great criminals, they do not--they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That there are foolish criminals who are discovered, and wise criminals who escape. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• One would think that we were the criminals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• These criminals undergo the fearful operation without a wince, without a tremor of any kind, without a groan! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I wish we did not always have to live like criminals, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When you see how business controls politics, it certainly is not very illuminating to call the successful business men of a nation criminals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The world may sneer at a turnkey, but he's a man--when he isn't a woman, which among female criminals he's expected to be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And we never live like criminals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was impenitent--but were not public criminals impenitent? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1871 criminals were ordered to be photographed in England, and in America the Rogues’ Gallery became an institution in New York as early as 1857, ambrotypes being first used. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then criminals of the lower classes[243] condemned to death were also used. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My sympathies are with the criminals rather than with the victim, and I will not handle this case. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is a case, my dear Watson, where the law is as dangerous to us as the criminals are. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Herophilus, the greatest of the Alexandrian anatomists, is said to have conducted vivisections upon condemned criminals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If a person has the audacity to say the contrary, the answer is--Then why do criminals require the hand of the executioner, and not die of themselves? Plato. The Republic.
• You'd never let it make any difference--but then you're fond of criminals, Gerty! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No article of value was taken, as it is probable that the criminals were men of good position, whose sole object was to prevent social exposure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He saw this woman--the first to whom he had given his young adoration--amid the throng of stupid criminals. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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