misdoer
Example Sentences
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Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.
From The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Saint Edmund from the horizon's edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
He had been known to spend years in the hunt for a single misdoer and Vic had no care to wander out where he might be seen.
From The Seventh Man by Max Brand
He led the people to a green; made them form a ring; then stept into the midst of them, set the faithful sieve a-running, and so failed not to discover the misdoer.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
