The heroism usually took one of four forms: saving somebody from drowning, saving somebody from a burning building, stopping a runaway team, or arresting some violent lawbreaker under exceptional circumstances.
In other cases thelawbreaker escapes because those who could give him up do not consider his breech of the law a guilty action.
At one time there were 141 of these lordships, under as many petty chieftains known as Lords-Marchers, who indiscriminately sold charters, and harboured any lawbreaker who would pay for his footing.
It was a society in which the lawbreaker was king; a society in which crimes were not only condoned but were admired and even rewarded; a society in which deviation from the rules was judged solely on its degree of success.
The law sets limits, and acts as a modifier upon the behavior of the lawbreaker and the law enforcer.
He had no wish to be mixed up in the tragic matter, and he knew, instinctively, that if Joe Lorey gave his word, moonshiner and lawbreaker as he was, it would be kept to the grim end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawbreaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
