Vliet might or might not really believe I was the instigatorof attacks on the settlement, but he had the word of Sheffield for it, and would doubtless have Sheffield's men ready to swear it, if so it pleased his lordship.
The Dutch are told that you are their secret enemy, the instigator of the attacks made on them.
But from the beginning other plans filled the Prophet's thoughts, and though revenge for his privations was declared to be the instigator of his attacks on the Kureisch trade, the determining motive must be looked for much more deeply.
Mahomet was the instigator of all this absorbing activity, although he never calculated the extent of his political impulse.
For this offense he was put in confinement while the instigator went unpunished.
Rome, as the instigator of the unyielding ecclesiastics of Vendée, was, of course, on the side of Great Britain and the Empire.
This result was a second defeat for Napoleon Buonaparte, who was almost certainly the instigator and leader of the uprising.
At Mans the fanatical bishop was the chiefinstigator of a work of mingled murder and rapine.
He then dies, protesting his innocence and designating Brynhild as the instigator of his murder.
How could he ever induce an officer and a gentleman to believe that he was no instigator in this matter?
The failure of those proceedings redounded to the discredit of Calvin with the people, as he had been the instigator of them.
Although I have neither been the mover nor instigator to it, yet, since it has so happened, I am not sorry for it.
Hébert was one of the worst demagogues of the Commune, the chief and instigator of the Parisian rabble.
The instigator of this decree was the ex-consul Scipio Nasica, a heavy loser by the agrarian law, a man of strong and passionate temper who was every day becoming a more infuriated opponent of Tiberius Gracchus.
The consul Albinus amongst others pressed the murderer to reveal the instigator of the deed, and the senate must have promised the immunity that was sometimes given to the criminal who named his accomplices.
He was furious at the idea of having been duped by his accomplice, by the instigator of the crime he had committed, and for which he would probably never have received the promised reward.
It will be no child's play, I am sure, to prove that he was the instigator of Crochard's crimes, and that he has hired him with his own money.
For the sake of example, he said, he could not let them pass altogether unpunished, and he now asked them which of them had been the instigator of the deed; he and he only should suffer punishment.
I was the instigator of the mischief, I pulled the wires, and if we are questioned let me speak first.
He lost no time in ordering out fresh troops to cover their retreat, and he smiled with grim satisfaction when he heard that the instigator of the plan had fallen.
The murderer gladly withdrew from the presence of his instigator to crime, to join his companion, and to drown his conscience with wine; first examining and then carefully hiding the spoils he had taken from his victim.
Unfortunately for himself, he again stopped to hear what further arguments his squire might have to urge; who, like the arch instigator to evil, seeing the effect his proposition had already made, ventured to proceed.
Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
One who abets; aninstigator of an offense or an offender.
The instigator of the movement was Induciomarus, the leader of the patriot party among the Treveri, whose intrigues had taken Caesar to the Moselle before the first visit to Britain.
The reader may remember a certain youth named Clodius, who had been with Lucullus in Asia, and had been a chief instigator of the mutiny in his army.
Charles John Count Koenigsmark was the instigator of the assassination of Mr. Thynne.
In the Norse version the actual perpetrator of the deed is Gutthormr, but the instigator is Brynhildr herself.
For more than two years he was the arch-instigator in prosecutions which, at least in the numbers of those executed, mark the high tide of the delusion.
Richard of Bury is said to have been his tutor, and the early lessons of the author or instigator of the Philobiblon were never entirely lost by the prince who took Chaucer and Froissart into his service.
I probably felt more deeply than any of my companions, because I was the instigator of the movement.
I claim to be theinstigator of the high crime (as the slaveholders regard it) and I kept life in it, until life could be kept in it no longer.
He had no doubt that the crime had been meditated; and regarding me as the instigator of it, he frankly told Master Thomas that he must remove me from that neighborhood, or he would shoot me down.
LORD CECIL--If he say, you have been the instigator of him to deal with the Spanish king, had not the Council cause to draw you hither?
Let me ask you this, If my lord Cobham will say you were the only instigator of him to proceed in the treason, dare you put yourself on this?
The third occasion on which Luther's innocence of the charges of Romanists that he was an instigator of lawlessness was most effectually vindicated was the Antinomian controversy.
If by his preaching of the Gospel Luther had been the instigator of the peasants' uprising, what a brazen hypocrite he must have been in denouncing acts which he must have acknowledged to be fruits of his teaching!
