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Example sentences for "perpetrators"

Lexicographically close words:
perpetrated; perpetrates; perpetrating; perpetration; perpetrator; perpetual; perpetuall; perpetually; perpetuam; perpetuate
  1. As this was accomplished beyond the limits of the metropolis, and its perpetrators arraigned at Hertford, where the principal actor suffered death, the case hardly comes within the limits of my subject.

  2. Where robbery with violence was intended, the perpetrators had now to adopt various shifts and contrivances to secure their victim.

  3. Their perpetrators were charged with high treason, but met with merciful clemency as irresponsible beings.

  4. I propose to end at this point the detailed account of the more prominent criminal cases which lodged their perpetrators in Newgate.

  5. The perpetrators were citizens living near the middle block-house, whose wives and children had been killed a few days before by the hostiles, but who well knew that these unoffending creatures had had nothing to do with those murders.

  6. Look at the serious crimes committed in London during the past three years to the perpetrators of which the police have no clue!

  7. I was incensed only against the perpetrators of that foul crime in Sussex Place, not against the sweet, soft-spoken woman who was so near my heart.

  8. Sometimes, also, the joke, if I may so call it, has been turned upon the perpetrators to their utter discomfort.

  9. Grief weighs down the heart of Orderly Scott, who is giving vent to his anguish in stifled sobs and vows of vengeance on the perpetrators of the foul deed.

  10. No effort has ever been made to discover the names of the perpetrators of this deed.

  11. I am of the opinion that either this city or Chicago holds the perpetrators of this latest railroad crime.

  12. I shall not leave the trail until the perpetrators of that crime are secured and punished.

  13. All the perpetrators of the murder were hanged after their right hands had been amputated.

  14. In this way Zugasti often heard of crimes almost as soon as they were planned, and could hunt up their perpetrators without delay.

  15. Many of their perpetrators were wholly hidden from the authorities, while others were perfectly well known.

  16. Two wits--who not only belonged to Cork, but had seen a great many drawings of it in their time--were the perpetrators of this literary mystification.

  17. Many were arrested on suspicion, but the actual perpetrators escaped.

  18. A terrible retribution, however, was at hand, and the sacred emblem of the Cross was purified from the stains with which it had been covered by the perpetrators of these enormities.

  19. So blinded were the crusaders by their fanatic zeal, that this massacre in cold blood was regarded by the perpetrators as a righteous deed, acceptable to Heaven.

  20. Speaking of the humanitarian disposition of the Police, one finds many incidents to show how they resented offences against the helpless, and how relentlessly they brought the perpetrators of such offences to book.

  21. Constantine and his men kept on their track and perpetrators of ordinary offences were astonished when they were run out of the country in order to save food for the decent people who were willing to work without preying on others.

  22. Is it wonderful, that under such circumstances, there should have been a deep abhorrence for the perpetrators of this outrage upon humanity, and a general sympathy for the innocent captive?

  23. Several hundred persons were present, and the deepest feeling was manifested against the perpetrators of the outrage.

  24. It is fortunate that the perpetrators of this deed--ten persons were convicted--possessed but a very crude knowledge of the best method of blowing up a gasworks.

  25. And, what is worse, my own ancestors were among the perpetrators of those black deeds committed in the name of Christ.

  26. One could equally well assert of murder, burglary, even abus de confidence in some cases, and other offences, that the perpetrators of them must be so degraded that no amount of brutal punishment could degrade them further.

  27. I had long before been made acquainted with the circumstances of this murder and the perpetrators had all been secured, but we wanted this link in the chain of evidence.

  28. When the bloody deed had been committed (a ball had passed right through his body), the cruel perpetrators ran home, leaving the murdered man helpless.

  29. No small catalogue of crimes truly, even if the perpetrators are few.

  30. A small catalogue of evils, even if the perpetrators of them are few in number.

  31. However, his friendship for the Saints had greatly cooled and no action was ever taken by Governor Carlin to release the prisoners, or to bring to justice the perpetrators of the crime.

  32. The citizens then memorialized Governor Carlin, petitioning him to take steps to have released the four men who were then held prisoners in Missouri, and have punished the perpetrators of the crime.


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