The Judge was angry at so outrageous a violation of their plain duty, and did what he ought not to have done--namely, asked the reason they brought in such a verdict, when they knew the culprit was guilty and ought to have been hanged.
It was at Winchester, and after I had uttered the fatal words the culprit turned savagely towards me, and in a loud, gruff voice cried, "Curse you!
How is it possible, then, to bring home the charge to the culprit unless you rely on circumstantial evidence?
In the former case the culprit is lashed to a triangle; in the latter he is hoisted on what is euphoniously called a donkey.
The ensuing wait seemed to try the chief culprit more than his young-old lady "friend.
Not until the chief culprit found himself standing alone on the curb before the antiquated court-house did he appreciate the serious consequences to himself of the contretemps.
The culprit is ordered to go to market with some one of the opposite sex.
The culprit is required to drink his own health and make some flowery speech concerning himself.
The culprit is required to go to each person and say that he or she is going on a journey to Rome and ask whether they have anything to send to the Pope.
It is very funny to hear the culprit plead that he could not possibly jump over the three chairs when the sentence means to jump over his shoes--"take off your shoes and jump over them.
The culpritmust take off his shoe and pretend to drive pegs into it.
Generally speaking, however, the blood-hound of former days would not injure the culprit that did not attempt to escape, but would lie down quietly and give notice by a loud and peculiar howl what kind of prey he had found.
He did not, however, seem to design that the culprit should be punished capitally.
Without a murmur the culprit bared his shoulders for the lash.
The culprit pleaded in vain the shabby treatment which he had received.
But the Chamberlain, feeling his own dignity insulted, ordered two of his halberdiers to bring the culprit before him.
In the judgment Paul pronounces on the Corinthian culprit two points are important.
The culprit is not only to be excluded from Christian communion, but "to be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved.
Old Tom pursued, looking at Beth as if she were a culprit up for judgment.
If she missed the first movement, the culprit escaped.
Scolding was out of the question, for she was not able to utter another word, but just sat there with such a miserable face, she might have been the culprit herself, especially as she ended by bursting into tears.
American prison discipline to be, yet "there is a gradually increasing culprit population growing up in America, of which the legislation cannot rid the country.
If it is meant the culprit should reflect on his having done wrong, I answer this he always does, under any punishment, however slight: he cannot but be aware of the cause which places him under coercion, and regret it.
She went with him with no goodwill of her own, like a culprit being dragged to execution.
He turned his back upon them, and but that his fellow-culprit made a momentary stand, would have fled away.
Maria sopra Minerva, it was as a culprit condemned to death by the Inquisition.
Justice preferred to obtain the culprit alive, and desired to receive him at honest hands.
The culprit died in prison before the day of sentence arrived, whether from excitement or refusing his food was never ascertained.
The culprit was not, as in the later Spanish Inquisition, strangled before the lighting of the fagots, nor had the invention of gunpowder suggested the expedient of hanging a bag of that explosive around his neck to shorten his torture.
He wrote to the English ambassador, and to the consuls, begging for their interposition; neglected no chance, and did not rest until he acquired the certainty that the penalty inflicted on the culprit would be more humane.
If you can compel a culprit to answer every question which a trained examiner is allowed to put, it is not difficult to convict the guilty.
What a quivering, miserable spectacle theculprit was!
Thereupon four men seized the culprit and pushed him against a wall; two others, armed with muskets, went close up to him and shot him.
I am afraid I must confess myself the culprit in that respect," replied the Curate, very modestly.
The feet and hands were cut off after death; the culprit escaping torture by his great presence of mind.
The peasant suffers, while the real culprit gets off scot-free and unknown.
Who could be the culprit whom Sir Charles had told him was his "friend.
But the sheriff had the culpritin his keeping, and the law in its majesty was guarding him from the violence of the angered people.
The watchman, instead of waiting to catch the culprit in the act of breaking and entering, stepped softly forward.
Rather they looked at each other questioningly as the minutes flew, as if the culprit were indeed not among them.
It is without doubt the king of all fruit in both the tropic and temperate zones, and is popular alike with man and beast, the orang-utan being a great culprit in robbing the Dayaks of their "durians.
That's where our very scientific culprit has forestalled me, Walter!
The culprit was undoubtedly familiar with Miss Lamar's height and with her manner of working.
The culprit looked quietly at him and said: "How the hell could I?
Finally her mama, a very portly woman, sat down and drew the little culprit across her ample lap to administer the long-delayed punishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culprit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: criminal; delinquent; felon; malefactor; offender; sinner; transgressor; wrongdoer
