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 Twain, Mark

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

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 Carlyle, Thomas

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

And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion. 

From The Life of John Bunyan by Venables, Edmund