But the character of a statue-breaker and an informer could never be otherwise than odious at Athens.
She had been bred to hate and despise a spy, but it was borne in on her now that duty required of her to turn informer against Dan Hodges.
There was, however, an abiding hate of the informer here, as always among decent folk, though along with it went reprobation of the traffic in moonshine.
A reward of 300 pounds was then issued from the castle for the discovery of the author, but no informer could be found base enough to betray him.
Soldiers and civilians, yeomen and townsmen, against whom the informer pointed his finger, were taken out, and summarily executed.
There is little reason to doubt that, had the opportunity been afforded him, he would have turned informer himself, and twisted events in such a way as to have condemned Hare.
Hare was thus again thrown back, and it must have seemed to him that if by turning informer against Burke he had saved his life, he was to be deprived of enjoying what remained of it as a free man.
But a man canna juist turn informer an' gie the gang-by to a' his auld acquaintances.
I heard afterwards, that over by the Fords of Crae they had come on a certain informer lying couched in the heather to watch what should happen.
But, by Hercules, if it be a mere false accusation, punish the informer according to its importance.
An informer accuses Apollonius of being a Christian, at a time when the imperial laws made such an accusation a capital offence.
Lord Colambre now perceived that the pretended informer had been running off to conceal a still of his own.
If he were an informer he would have kept up appearances instead of cursing it all and going away," observed some one.
On the 10th of February an indictment was lodged against Sestius for bribery by the informer Cn.
Footnote 459: Adlegatos, probably commissioners named to receive and report on a deposition of an informer before the senate acted.
As late as 1817, in a trifling case which was suspended, the informer was fined for not having preserved secrecy.
In other matters, the initiative came largely from denunciations, which were stimulated and favored in every way, especially by the secrecy which relieved the informer from responsibility.
Sgalambro and Montoro Bishop of Cefalu, issued, requiring all cognizant of heresy to denounce it within fifteen days, promising secrecy to the informer and threatening with prosecution, as fautors of heresy, those who failed to do so.
The killing of the informer at Talavera probably refers to the case of Bernardino Diaz, the consequences of which caused a coolness between Leo X and the Spanish Inquisition.
The informer Menon, upon Glycon's proposal, the people made free from payment of taxes and customs, and ordered the generals to take care that nobody should do him any hurt.
No deer may be killed or else forfeit 15 pounds, half to the informerand half to the poor.
The informer system for enforcing laws had its drawbacks.
The knife was blunt, and the wound, though dangerous, did not prove mortal; but the informer was prevented from giving the evidence which had been expected from him.
Yet are not subjects transformed into traitors and rebels; lovers forsworn; do not Christians renounce their baptism and abjure their faith; and is not friendship become a cloak to conceal the informer and assassin?
Eighteen unwilling men to be forced into mutiny and piracy by four willing and ten uncertain; and of the four willing, one of them the informer himself!
He ordained likewise, that all words and actions, upon which any informer could ground a prosecution, should be deemed treason.
In short, they gave him all the immense Estate of Arimazes, who had so unjustly accus'd him; but Zadig generously return'd the wicked Informer the Whole to a Farthing.
The envious Informer indeed, died with Shame and Vexation.
But inasmuch as theinformer had not been present himself, and that what he had laid before the court was mere hearsay evidence, little attention was paid to it.
The informer went on to say that Sir Clement Smith and the Recorder, who were present, laughed at the prayer.
After some hard swearing on both sides, leading to the discovery of bad blood existing between the informer and the alderman, the charge was dismissed.
Then ymmediatlie the said Dickensons wife tooke this Informer before her vpon the said horse.
Speaking in unimpassioned detail, the informer showed how his activities had covered the entire country and included the chiefs of both the large parties with a splendid catholicity.
The informer had been standing behind Luke, as if seeking his shelter.
The informer was led to the street, but it was too late.
A couple of ’em, but they were too darned drunk to remember,” the informer replied.
Then immediately Dickenson's wife took the informer before her upon the said horse and carried him to a new house called Hearthstones, being about a quarter of a mile off.
And instead of the black greyhound Dickenson's wife stood up, a neighbour whom thisinformer knoweth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "informer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
