William the Conqueror invested the Abbot of Battle Abbey with authority to save the life of any malefactor he might find being executed, and whose life he wished to spare.
One day, a malefactor was to be executed on the gallows, but with the condition that if any woman, having nothing on but her shift, married a man under the gallows, his life would be saved.
Kongoni, endeavoring to look both austere and disinterested, pokes malefactor in back.
Again, his hanging was just what, as condemned on a capital charge, a low-born malefactor might expect.
His soul became so tormented, as to suggest to his ideas the suffering of a malefactor broken upon the wheel.
Never did malefactor so unwillingly turn off the ladder when the rope was about his neck, as these will turn away in that day from the gates of heaven to hell.
Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door.
He looked at Poole, and then back at the paper, and last of all at the dead malefactorstretched upon the carpet.
Never before was so wretched a figure dragged to the place of execution, never before was a poor malefactor so terribly ill-treated on his way to death.
And when he laid it down and looked once again into the face of the malefactor who had staggered up beside him, he recognised the Prophet.
And if anyone protects or defends such a malefactor within the valley, he shall make proper satisfaction to him whose house was burned.
All who receive or protect such a malefactor shall be driven out of the valley until the people agree to permit them to return.
The high priest sends us to bring a petition to the viceroy of Caesar to ask if he will allow the council to appear before him and to bring before him a malefactor for the confirmation of his sentence.
Caiaphas, speaking with some surprise, said, "If he were not a great malefactor we would not have delivered him over to thee, but have dealt with him ourselves according to the direction of our holy law.
The trial and execution of the principal malefactor followed as a matter of course and without delay (February 25).
And yet historians have been found to make light of the offence, and to pity the malefactor as the victim of a romantic attachment to a woman whom he had never seen, and whom he believed to be an adulteress and a murderess.
The city gave way--the gibbet was taken down, and the malefactor carried to Tyburn in the same afternoon, where he was executed.
He declared that it was disgraceful "to put a nobleman to death like a common malefactorfor killing a servant;" but his plea availed little, and he suffered at Tyburn five weeks after the murder.
It was a cross with Himself upon it, and a malefactor on each side, instead of the brothers in their pride.
Other instances of this kind have been recorded, one in the Swiss Praettigau as late as 1730, although in many cases the execution of the gallinaceous malefactor was more summary and less ceremonious than at Bale.
A little before eight o'clock on Monday morning, the 13th of April, the wretched malefactor was led from the condemned cell to the press-room.
A few days sufficed to bring this atrocious malefactor to justice.
At the appointed signal, the bolt was withdrawn, and in a minute or two the wretched malefactor ceased to exist.
The mere mention of the name of this atrocious malefactor is a sufficient introduction to his case; and without farther comment we shall proceed to describe the dreadful circumstances by which his crime was surrounded.
This forgiving spirit on the part of the malefactor was a little more than the states could bear, disposed as they felt, from policy, to be indulgent, and to smooth over the crime as gently as possible.
Rank and fortune were offered to any malefactor who would compass the murder.
The malefactor who drew the meaning from this excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an evil power which appears to be immortal.
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
It is no secret; evil is difficult to conceal when the malefactor is proud of it.
No Calcraft science with it either, with neck broken in decent fashion, but just a hauling up of the rope and a tying of it to some handy stanchion, and the unhappy malefactor left to throttle by slow degrees.
After the days of grace had expired, and in the event of no pardon being obtained, ceremonies were gone through before the Shrine, in which the malefactor solemnly forswore his native land for ever.
Never did malefactor so unwillingly turn off the ladder when the halter was about his neck, as thou will turn from God to the devil, from heaven to hell, when the sentence is passed upon thy soul.
How inconsistent for a pardoned malefactor to insult even those who are under condemnation!
The brand of a malefactor cannot cling to his name.
The Department of Justice has been as prompt to proceed against the wealthiest malefactor whose crime was one of greed and cunning as to proceed against the agitator who incites to brutal violence.
If, on the contrary, the legs of Jesus had been broken, they would not have feared his being alive, but rather the malefactor whose legs had not been broken.
The malefactor rebukes the Jews and not his fellow, and if he display a piety which is not very natural under the circumstances, he is not in this more remarkable than his counterpart in the third Synoptic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "malefactor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.