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Suppose your chance passenger proves to be not an honest subject, but a malefactor—one of a gang.
THE DEVIL'S GARDENW. B. MAXWELL
Wherefore hast Thou nailed me like a malefactor to the tree?
THE BATTLE OF THE STRONG, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
As for the other malefactor, William Hawksworth, he was a Yorkshireman by birth.
LIVES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINALS WHO HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED AND EXECUTED FOR MURDER, THE HIGHWAY, HOUSEBREAKING, STREET ROBBERIES, COINING OR OTHER OFFENCESARTHUR L. HAYWARD
If her maids or the police or both had been more alert, the malefactor would have been arrested.
THE LIFE OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE VOL. 2 OF 2EDWARD TYAS COOK
His rhoomatism's merely that malefactor's way of goin' onder cover.
FARO NELL AND HER FRIENDSALFRED HENRY LEWIS
But the matter is not difficult, to find twelve men in Newgate, who would acquit a malefactor.
ENGLISH SATIRESVARIOUS
On the appointed day, the 7th of January 1833, the sentence of death was carried out upon the body of the malefactor.
THE CHRONICLES OF CRIME OR THE NEW NEWGATE CALENDAR. V. 2/2CAMDEN PELHAM
She listened decently; but when I was silent, she said: He looked upon me as a malefactor, and as one under sentence of death.
MEMOIRS OF LEONORA CHRISTINALEONORA CHRISTINA ULFELDT
He was a rejected, outcast Christ—one assigned by the world to a malefactor's gibbet.
THE GREAT COMMISSIONC. H. (CHARLES HENRY) MACKINTOSH
Was he not furnished with a divine title to pass from the cross of a malefactor into the presence of God?
THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF CHRISTCHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH

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