The offender was deeply mortified, but endeavoured to thank his elderly relative for discharging so painful a task.
Where possible theoffender was brought before the cacique forthwith.
The cacique always condemned the offender to be stoned, and the penalty was inflicted by the whole village.
The resulting guilt must be removed, if the offender or the community is not to incur the wrath of the affronted Powers.
From whatever reason it may be, I am the first bold offender of this kind: I have broken down the fence, and ventured into the holy grove.
Cursing softly under his breath, he settled on the spot with a cash compromise; and then calling the offender to his presence, he used strong and bitter words.
AN old offender being asked whether he had committed all the crimes laid to his charge, answered, "I have done still worse!
The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered; Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared.
But fair Geneura[207] rose in his defence, And prayed so hard for mercy from the prince, That to his queen the king the offender gave, And left it in her power to kill or save.
Of course, it was always the understood thing that if a plebe objected to his treatment and demanded satisfaction, the offender must fight.
The intensity of the indignation which these and similar outrages created in the body of the nation, may be gathered from a scene which took place when an audacious offender was seized by the law, and suffered at Ipswich.
Prominent before the assembly, some wretched male or female offender sat with a scarlet letter on the breast, to denote some crime against the stern code.
The offender was told that sin consisted in wilfulness, and wilfulness in the perfect knowledge of the nature of sin, according to which doctrine blindness and passion were sufficient exculpations.
The offender was boiled to death in Smithfield, in pursuance of a law made for that very case, but repealed in 1547.
And if any waterman's or lighterman's apprentice shall herein offend, the master or mistress of every such offender (the offender being duly convicted as aforesaid) shall forfeit and pay the like sum of 2s.
Advantage was often taken of this: sometimes the offender had time to hide, and the storm passed by without hurting any one.
The alternatives of fine or imprisonment heightened the evil, for while the poor delinquent went to gaol the well-to-do offender escaped.
The legs were free for the offender to perambulate with the instrument of disgrace about him.
Many are the instances in which it is recorded by the convicting justice that someoffender was 'drunk in my view.
The time prescribed in the stocks was fixed at six hours, because by that time the statute presumed the offender would have regained his senses, and not be liable to do mischief to his neighbours.
Lord L'Estrange never cut any one, and it was quite enough to slight some worthy man because of his neckcloth or his birth, to ensure to the offender the pointed civilities of this eccentric successor to the Dorimonts and the Wildairs.
The offender received his punishment gracefully, as men will who have been taught that it flatters them.
If not an offender against Government, he was at least a wanderer early in life.
With Budge alone, I had a comfortable dinner off the salvage from the wreck caused by Toddie, and then I went up-stairs to see if the offender had repented.
Bob smothered the expletive that had risen to his lip when he saw who the unwitting offender was, and asked, "What are they doin' to the mare in the ring?
Inconsistently the fair offender felt no recoil of this somewhat distressing situation; her mind busied itself chiefly over the reclamation of Lauzanne.
Reversing the usual procedure, he held that the choleric word of the soldier was rank blasphemy in the captain; the higher the rank of the offender the more severe, in his opinion, should be the punishment.
In 1659 the Dutch rulers of New Amsterdam (now New York) ordered that for "stripping fences of rails and posts" the offender should be whipped and branded, and for a second offence he could be punished by death.
The offender who broke the Sabbath laws had to pay a fine and be set in the stocks.
