In the eye of the law, persons standing by and seeing a felony committed, which they could have prevented, are held equally guilty with those committing it.
They may acquit you for pleading guilty of inability; but if you make an attempt, and fail, will vote it a capital offence.
But right now I want to say I've got a hunch I c'n lay my finger on the guilty one, even if I dassent say so till I get the proof fixed on him good and hard.
And say, bet you that when I happen to mention the name of Max Ramsay I'm not very far away from the guilty party; though I ought not to accuse anybody till I'm dead sure.
Should I be in error, I trust he will give the reference to the place in which Darwin is guilty of the nonsense that is fathered upon him in your article.
While he and Mrs. Gotfry were exchanging greetings in Persian, I was wondering why in Damascus, the city of seven rivers and of poetry and song, should there be a court guilty like this one of a dry and dilapidated fountain.
If my marriage to my cousin be wrong, unlawful, your Bishop in sanctioning same is guilty of perpetuating this wrong, this unlawfulness, is he not?
Waldemar had been guilty of this, and he, least of all, would be forgiven the crime.
They were also proved guilty of other sins and were therefore cut off from the Church.
This law provided that no polygamist should vote or hold office; and if found guilty of polygamy a man might be fined five hundred dollars and put in prison for three years.
The brethren were found guilty and sentenced to be shot next morning at eight, o'clock, on the public square in Far West.
We were guilty of the usual platitudes about "God's country and the normal way to live" and knew they were that but didn't care.
These dangers may seem obvious but it is astonishing how many times that faulty mechanism known as the genus homo has been guilty of just such follies.
She does not lay the faintest invidious accent on the name, as if contrasting it with another whose owner had been so far less kind; it is his own guiltyheart that supplies the emphasis.
It is needless to say how innocent of the mental ejaculation attributed to him Jim has been, and the consciousness of it makes him inquire with guilty haste: "But you were none the worse?
In the emotion of the moment, it appears to him as if there were something almost ludicrously improbable and lying about that accusation, in which, when first brought against him, his guilty soul had admitted more than a grain of truth.
I thought I would wait about here for an hour or so," says Byng, with a rather guilty air of apology, "until I could go back and inquire again.
She has not met Miss Wilson since she had declined Burgoyne's offer of bringing his betrothed to see her, and in her deprecating eyes there is a guilty and tremulous recollection of this fact.
There Eugenius was pronounced guilty of schism, rebellion, and obstinacy, together with all the host of cardinals and bishops who had joined him in attempting a dissolution of the council.
And then whatever any art fails to attain, they ever set it down upon the authority of that art itself as impossible of attainment; and how can art be found guilty when it is judge in its own cause?
We are only to take care that we involve not the innocent with the guilty in the same condemnation.
Christ was represented by the Jews as guiltyof sedition.
The idea, therefore, seems to be that as we must distinguish the holy food over which the words "This is my body" have been uttered from common food, so we must separate ourselves before eating it from all that is guilty and impure.
He laboured to reform the monastic orders, especially the Franciscan, and was never guilty of nepotism.
Another stele (called the Stele of Excommunication) records the expulsion of a priestly family guilty of murder (H.
I shall be guilty of gross injustice to historical truth if my words give one a very low opinion of the status of woman under Bushido.
Upon pretence of joining in the guilty plot, she manages in the dark to take her husband's place, and the sword of the lover assassin descends upon her own devoted head.
But a dishonest behaviour, with its constant attendant a guilty conscience, will always fill the mind with fear and dismay.
Brethren, all these are so many undeniable proofs and evidences of what I have said; namely, that we are fallen and guilty creatures.
I wish, therefore, what I have said upon this subject, to be understood as addressed TO ALL, whether of higher or lower rank, who are guilty of breaking the sabbath.
No one could be more ready and willing than himself to condemn Mag Nicolas Francken if the evidence showed him to have been guilty of any of the crimes informally alleged against him.
The Englishman hardly knew whether to put him down as a man haunted by a fixed delusion, or as one oppressed by a guilty conscience, or as an unbearably henpecked husband.
Mainly on this evidence, though there was much more of a less striking and unusual kind from other parishioners, Mrs Mothersole was found guilty and condemned to die.
A second folly I was guilty of in uniting families with the curate of the parish, who had just married, as my wife and I thought, a very good sort of a woman.
To say the truth, he was a noble fellow; and Amelia, by supposing he had a commission in the guards, had been guilty of no affront to that honourable body.
The justice then called her several scurrilous names, and, declaring she was guilty within the statute of street-walking, ordered her to Bridewell for a month.
But if men are sometimes guilty of laying improper blame on this imaginary being, they are altogether as apt to make her amends by ascribing to her honours which she as little deserves.
I defy the world to say as I ever was guilty of an ill thing.
Whoever, therefore, calls such a man fortunate, isguilty of no less impropriety in speech than he would be who should call the statuary or the poet fortunate who carved a Venus or who writ an Iliad.
Just as he spoke there came a deep, hoarse roll of thunder, as though the artillery of heaven was being prepared to bombard the guilty pair in the old Manor-house.
I only trust that we are mistaken, and that he is not guilty of this brutal crime.
Besides, if Pence was guilty he certainly would not have composed what he did, and assuredly would not have produced the one hundred pounds he stole.
Cyril felt his hair rise, and he thought of his father's probable danger, but he calmed down on reflecting that at least Edwin Lister was not guilty of the frightful crime.
Undoubtedly theguilty pair had left the front door open, so that blame might be cast upon some outsider--on a possible burglar, for instance.
No," cried Bella aloud, and in an agony of shame; "the man I love could not be guilty of so vile an act.
And at this point--while she was locking up the cup in a convenient cupboard--Bella became aware that she was thinking as though her lover were actually guilty of the deed.
Again came a drench of rain, almost blotting out the landscape, but the ray of light still picked out the guilty couple, following the course of the boat steadily, like an avenging angel's sword.
Never mind," said Bella, with her eyes on the guilty faces of the married couple.
Will you confess yourself a guilty man, and own to the maneness of your nature in concocting a plot to ruin the innocent boy, Will Scarlett?
With them there was a juridical problem to be solved by pure reason, an indictment to be made, presentable before a judge and jury--a proposition that the prisoners at the bar were guilty of a specific offence, with evidence in proof.
Remembering the chicaneries of his money-making career, how glad he was she did not know them; and yet he felt a rogue in gaining this testimony of her faith, more than in all the swervings from uprightness he had ever been guilty of.
It really looked very funny, and in spite of our guilty consciences we nearly choked ourselves with trying to laugh noiselessly.
No culprit caught red-handed could have felt moreguilty or discomfited than I.
Nothing but that curiosity could have made you guilty of so cruel an indiscretion; the consequences of it are as bad as they possibly can be.
I don't go about to clear myself from this charge, you can't think me guilty of it; without doubt you have applied to yourself what was told you of some other.
The Cordell case is closed; the guilty man is awaiting execution.
But when I learned he'd been found guilty and actually condemned to die .
To play the devil; to be guilty of some great irregularity or mismanagement.
To send one to Coventry; a punishment inflicted by officers of the army on such of their brethren as are testy, or have been guilty of improper behaviour, not worthy the cognizance of a court martial.
To mount a corporal and four; to be guilty of onanism: the thumb is the corporal, the four fingers the privates.
Jurymen are also called godfathers, because they name the crime the prisoner before them has been guilty of, whether felony, petit larceny, &c.
You are therefore guilty of high treason against the most illustrious League of Swabia and Franconia.
And the greater part of them believe not in GOD, without being also guilty of idolatry.
O Joseph, take no farther notice of this affair: and thou, O woman, ask pardon for thy crime; for thou art a guilty person.
In that they charged Ali with sin, for having left an affair to the judgment of men, which ought to have been determined by GOD alone; and went so far as to declare him guilty of infidelity, and to curse him on that account.
His brethren said, If Benjamin be guiltyof theft, his brother Joseph hath been also guilty of theft heretofore.
O children of Adam, take your decent apparel at every place of worship,o and eat and drink,p but be not guilty of excess; for he loveth not those who are guilty of excess.
And his people came unto him, rushing upon him, and they had formerly been guilty of wickedness.
The messenger had not been gone long, before Gabriel discovered the affair to the prophet, who immediately sent after her; and having intercepted the letter, asked Hateb how he came to be guilty of such an action?
