Pedro Menendez was one of the most execrable miscreantsthat ever lived.
Again the reign of terror opened, and the blood of hundreds of innocent people paid for the villainy of the rapacious miscreants who were beyond reach.
But they mastered it, and waited, both determined and strung up with the desire to mete out punishment to the cowardly miscreants who sought for their own gain to destroy their fellow-creatures.
A few shots had done this once, but now that the miscreants had had time to recover from their panic, would it answer again?
The miscreants now saw him, and dashing their paddles in the water, were rapidly up to him.
God can do no wrong; man is the puppet of God; and whatever is, is consequently right, the villanies of miscreants included.
Her friends conjectured that his object was to get rid of her, and in revenge for his former treachery and present heartlessness, Fulbert bribed some miscreants to mutilate him when he was asleep.
The boon companion of the foulest miscreants the womb of sin ever vomited on earth!
The miscreants talked of five guineas, for the pretended risk they should run, in giving him a fortnight to sell his effects to the best advantage.
Where are there giants in Spain or miscreants in La Mancha, or enchanted Dulcineas, or all the rest of the silly things they tell about you?
Having thus by observation made sure the kitchen door was shut, and the miscreants were not actually listening, he examined the chamber door closely: then quietly shut it, but did not bolt it; and went and inspected the window.
The miscreants who had deprived Jacqueline of her heritage, driven her from Brabant, wasted the resources of the realm, and who had not even feared to flout Saint Peter, must first be dismissed from office.
But it would be unwise to expose yourself on the water; for them miscreants are beginning to bethink them again of powder and bullets.
I love no Mingo, as is just, seeing how much I have consorted with the Delawares, who are their mortal and natural enemies; but I never pull trigger on one of the miscreants unless it be plain that his death will lead to some good end.
By no means fire until I give the word; we must not let the crack of the rifle be heard except in the last resort, since all the rest of the miscreants are still within hearing.
The miscreants and their wounded, as the blood trail showed, had escaped by way of the rear of the house.
Helped out by the Colt, the fire from the moving craft was sharp enough to discourage the rapidly diminishing ardor of the miscreants on shore.
Oh, if the police would only come it time, what a rounding up of miscreants that day would see!
Partly it was because of his merchant's sense of property, which made him hate the thought that miscreants should acquire that to which they had no title; but mainly it was the appeal in those haggard childish eyes.
Amongst the calamities of the times, were informers and their agents; a tribe of miscreantswho had grown up under the licence of former reigns.
Rome's blood in streams will flow, When banish'd miscreants rule this world below.
There were some Tories, even active ones, whom we can respect; but miscreants like Girty and Walter Butler, of the Mohawk Valley, present no redeeming quality to plead for excuse.
One of the miscreants hurled, a sharp tomahawk at her as she left the room, but it effected no other harm than a slight injury to her dress, within a few inches of the infant's head.
The former was sunk there in 1814, and the latter, which was afterward used as a store-ship, was scuttled by some miscreants while her officers and crew were at the village participating in a Fourth of July celebration.
Sometimes they threatened him with death; then he was manacled and chained, and in this way the miscreants tormented him, and tried to wring from him a letter to the executive council recommending the discharge of Franklin.
There were congregated the leaders and chiefs of those bands of murderers and miscreants who carried death and destruction into the remote American settlements.
Moreover it is not certain that the miscreants who blew up the house themselves knew the whole details of the crime.
The patrons of the miscreants who utter these slanders know better, but are, nevertheless, willing to benefit by the impression they may make on the minds of the people.
They are out and out miscreants to the very bottom of their hearts.
If I only knew now on which side these miscreants lay!
It would be fatal to trust ourselves in the hands of the miscreants in our rear.
As lions in their utmost rage have recoiled before a man who has looked them steadily in the face, so did even those miscreants quail before their pure and high-minded queen.
Even those ruthless miscreants were awed by her magnanimous fearlessness; not a shot was fired; for a moment it seemed as if her enemies had become her partisans.
Once he had shown signs of consciousness, and one of the two miscreants had given him another dose of the powerful narcotic.
He was a convict who had escaped from the mines of Siberia, and had gathered round him a band of miscreants as desperate as himself, and as careless of consequences.
Lifting the pole with its helpless human burden, these bloodthirsty miscreants passed out of the kraal.
The miscreants had dragged away the bodies of their own dead.
He therefore called on all rulers, secular and ecclesiastical, to hunt down the miscreants who thus afflicted the faithful, and he especially increased the power of inquisitors in various parts of Europe for this purpose.
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