misdoer
Example Sentences
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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
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 F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
But she spake at last: Meseemeth as if there is a woman in the isle besides you three; some misdoer that I was minded to punish.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
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
