misdoer

Example Sentences

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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 Carlyle, Thomas

Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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 Brand, Max

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 Twain, Mark

Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)