malefactor

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Another Malefactor being very loth to die, a Comforter said to him, that Kings and Popes must all submit to Death.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

I told him that we had lunched, introduced him to Foe as the Malefactor, and invited him to come back and dine with us at Prince's before catching the late train for Oxford.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Times The Malefactor An amazing story of the strange revenge of Sir Wingrave Seton, who suffered imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.

From Berenice by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Malefactor, Mr. Luke!" he argued, "that young man was no malefactor.

From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

“Your Honour,” said the Malefactor, interrupting, “would you be kind enough to alter my punishment to ten years in the penitentiary and nothing else?”

From Fantastic Fables by Bierce, Ambrose