There might have been another auto da fé even in the nineteenth century, but informers would not come forward and latter-day victims could not be found.
Informers crowded Lucero's ante-chamber bringing monstrous tales of heretical conspiracies to reëstablish Judaism and subvert the Church.
The informers may be rewarded if the inquisitor thinks it well, by the blessing of the Church, and with money.
A box to receive the statements of such informers as wish to be unknown should be placed in the Church.
Nor was any objection made when James sought out and punished the informers who had fabricated the Popish Plot, though their chastisement was very barbarous.
Many minor informers also sprang up to corroborate the venomous tale of Oates.
The bar is overcrowded by men to whom no other career of ambition is open, by oldinformers who find their occupation gone, by the sons of noble houses who parade the glory of their ancestors in order to attract vulgar clients.
But under the tyrants, voluntaryinformers sprang up in every class.
Besides vast heaps of manuscripts publicly destroyed throughout the East, men of letters burned their whole libraries, lest some fatal volume should expose them to the malice of the informers and the extreme penalty of the law.
The numerous army of spies, of agents, and informers enlisted by Constantius to secure the repose of one man, and to interrupt that of millions, was immediately disbanded by his generous successor.
The judgment of Valentinian was sometimes deceived, and his confidence abused; but he would have silenced the informers with a contemptuous smile, had they presumed to alarm his fortitude by the sound of danger.
While on this subject, it has been remarked that most of the Irish informers amassed wealth by their bills of "discovery," whereas those of the days of Tiberius generally fell victims to their own artifices.
It is clear that, with the execution of this law, the exertions of the police and of informers would have been superfluous, as the clergy were compelled to act as their own police and inform on themselves.
Informers were punished and discouraged; the innocent, who had suffered under the late tyranny, were recalled from exile, and restored to their estates.
Thus began and thus ended the informing trade in these parts of the county of Bucks; the ill success these first informers found discouraging all others, how vile soever, from attempting the like enterprise there ever after.
While this was doing I got an indictment drawn up against the informers Aris and Lacy for wilful perjury, and caused it to be delivered to the grand jury, who found the bill.
He exulted that at last an honest man could venture to hold his head high without drawing down upon himself the vengeance of the vileinformers who throve upon the misfortunes of the State.
Thief-catchers and informers were continually active, and the law did not hesitate to strike all upon whom it could lay its hands.
I said to Mr. Price that it was important that I should see all the evidence given by the informers who were to be produced against me, to enable me to make up my defence.
Informers are at work, and the names are all known.
The boys are slack, and we've been desperately thwarted by traitors and dirty informers and the English gang.
During the persecutions in Majorca a portion of his large fortune had been lost, and the remainder had been sacrificed in bribing the informers who threatened to deliver him as a Judaizing Christian to the Dominican Moloch.
To gratify their revenge or their malicious spirit, the informers quite overlooked the fact that by this means they might bring on a persecution, not only of Prague Jews, but of all German Jews.
Cromwell had his spies and informers everywhere, and it was as easy for them to lie as to speak the truth.
Judges and juries who had combined to send to death innocent Catholics, upon the testimony of forsworn informers, now combined to send to death ardent Whigs, upon the testimony of informers equally base.
A swarm of informers ensnared those whom the secret police were unable to entrap.
To which he made answer, it hardly seemed to him a noble or worthy course on the part of those who claimed to be the elite of society to go beyond the informers (8) in injustice.
The service was not devoid of danger, for vile informers prowled around seeking to discover and betray whomsoever would pay the rites of sepulture to the remains of the Christian martyrs.
He put to death the most illustrious men of the time, encouraged informers and false accusations, and filled Rome with terror.
The informers soon grew numerous: some of them were persons of high rank, who sought to display their eloquence, and to win the favor of the emperor, by denouncing his opponents in envenomed rhetoric, while others were common spies.
The rewards proposed by the Roman laws to informers was sometimes an eighth part as Spanheim assures us, from the criminal's goods, as here, and sometimes a fourth part.
The zeal of inspectors of brothels and informers had been stimulated by occasional solid rewards from the Bench, and the numerous prosecutions commenced seldom failed to end in conviction and substantial punishment.
A few days later the same informerswere employed again as witnesses, and secured the conviction of three more women.
Were the informers punished for giving false evidence designed to work incalculable injury to five innocent women?
I was certain that the informers could not be depended on for one moment.
One wonders how many hundreds of respectable families were thus bled of their small incomes by the vile informers who were being rewarded by Government for their extortion.
The depositions show that in at least five cases the police and their informers received rewards.
In 1864, as far as the records show, public money was first used by informers to induce women to commit adultery with them, in order to secure their conviction, fine them, and enroll their abodes as registered brothels.
In many of these cases the immorality on the part of the informers who brought the charges seems to have been unblushingly stated.
We wonder if he likewise gave himself a "substantial award from the bench," as the Registrar General was accustomed to give other informers when they succeeded in getting evidence sufficient for conviction.
As a natural consequence of such a law, the vilest scoundrels in the land set up the trade of informers and heresy-hunters.
A voice (we fancy it was that of our old friend Roberts) called out: "The Devil must be hard put to it to have his drudgery done, when the Priests must leave their pulpits to turn informers against poor prisoners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "informers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
