A ringleader in all wickedness would not long continue without reproof, either personally, or as seen in the holy conduct of others.
Yes, so I say; not but that he was a drunkard and also thievish, but he was most arch in this sin of uncleanness: this roguery was his masterpiece, for he was a ringleader to them all in the beastly sin of whoredom.
James much in the same way as it would have moved the Archbishop of Canterbury, in George Fox's day, to hear the latter called a "ringleader of the sect of Anglicans.
Mr. Wesley, neither frightened nor excited, quietly asked one of his friends to bring in the ringleader of the mob.
He made his way out into the street bare-headed, talking all the time; and before he had finished, the ringleader of the mob declared no one should touch him, he would be his protector.
Nope," said the other two, and the Maynards could see at once that Tom was the captain and ringleader of the trio.
The affair ended in my insisting upon all forming in line, and upon the ringleader being brought forward.
The only effect of my address was a great outbreak of insolence on the part of the ringleader of the previous evening.
He rolled over in a heap, his gun flying some yards from his hand, and the late ringleader lay apparently insensible among the luggage, while several of his friends ran to him and played the part of the Good Samaritan.
Haase, in his reply to the charges against him, admitted that the mutineers' ringleader had had a conference with him, Dittmann and Vogtherr.
That same ringleader of the vngratious faction, what ment he to depart from that shore which he possessed?
BALL, JOHN, a priest who had been excommunicated for denouncing the abuses of the Church; a ringleader in the Wat Tyler rebellion; captured and executed.
But when the gentlemen of the factory had perused our journal, they found, if there was any mutiny in the case, the very person who accused us was the ringleader and chief mutineer.
I returned to Sibu with Mingo, and we took with us the ringleader of the head-hunters.
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance.
We came, commissioned by our nation to impeach Paulus of Tarsus, a ringleader of the Galileans, for a sedition which he stirred up in Jerusalem; but while our shipwreck detained us your clemency has acquitted the criminal.
The Christians were chary of information, and perhaps, after all, it was as well not to demean myself by talking to a ringleader of a sect whom all men detest for their enormities.
He was particularly set against me, as I had been ringleader in the cobbing.
I will not deny that I was a ringleader in this affair, though I know I had no other motive than escape.
Never was there a riot or a duel, or any other mischief afoot, but the young Rhinelander figured as a ringleader in it.
Ethan Allen, the ringleader or captain, then ordered part of his gang to go with Henderson to his own house (formerly built and occupied by Captain Gray) in order to prepare it for the same fate.
He looked worn and sad, and I thought I recognized in him the same young man I had noticed the previous night, and who, I was told, was the ringleader of the party who came in the boat with the purpose of disturbing the meeting.
One young man, the ringleader of the party, instead of causing a disturbance, stood still and listened most attentively.
As quick as a flash the Colonel lands a blow on his jaw, and the ringleader rolls in a heap among the luggage, the gun flying in the opposite direction.
Baker ordered the ringleader to be bound and punished with twenty-five lashes.
Lord North justified the harsh measure, by asserting that Boston was the center of rebellious commotion in America, "the ringleader in every riot, and set always the example which others followed.
A ringleader in every mischievous sport, he often performed astonishing feats of daring.
Slippery Sam, in spite of his loose qualifications, is a ringleader more persuasive than prudent.
