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felon
1. “This man’s a poet, not a felon
2. 3, the exporter of sheep, lambs, or rams, was for the first offence, to forfeit all his goods for ever, to suffer a year's imprisonment, and then to have his left hand cut off in a market town, upon a market day, to be there nailed up; and for the second offence, to be adjudged a felon, and to suffer death accordingly
3. 18, the exportation of wool was made felony, and the exporter subjected to the same penalties and forfeitures as a felon
4. Sure I had done what I’d done, but it was only due to lack of legitimate opportunities for a convicted felon
5. I’m like Einstein with my melon, not a felon,” he said as serious as a heart attack as he fixed his sleeves
6. So, following the verdicts, he and his felon brother Sam who fixed greyhound races at Black Canyon Park by doping racing dogs totally cleaned out the law firm’s United Bank Building office, moving all the contents to Bob’s screened-in back porch
7. She knew he was a known felon
8. He looked honest enough, but I couldn"t afford to have a felon living in the gallery, so was persistent
9. By all accounts a wanted felon found work inside their ranch and the Argentine’s plus the Americans, Israeli’s and a couple of British agents went into the ranch but Beck and his pals had gone and we believe they came here to Santa Rita
10. She had barely acknowledged the call when Commodore Burkhalter from Staffing Allocation screamed, “Are you out of your mind? Captain Curra is a felon! He belongs in the brig not on the bridge of a battleship!”
11. The felon had exhausted his last avenue of appeal as he failed to secure counsel and so his sentence would be carried out immediately
12. The felon had exhausted his last avenue of appeal as he failed to secure counsel and so his sentence will be carried out immediately
13. like a convicted felon
14. It was within the law to shoot at a fleeing felon, but it cost my cousin his house in a federal civil trial and his livelihood
15. I for one would like to know why he would choose to employ a felon
16. 'No,' he said, 'We were in pursuit of a felon, and …' His legs gave way without warning, and only Saddlebrook's quick reaction saved him from falling
17. “Well, since you now know about it,” said Algar, “what do you think about using this convicted felon to tackle the job we have in mind?”
18. The skinny felon held out his rattling shackles in
19. Without a doubt he’s the best man to tackle this problem and take down this felon
20. He wondered: ‘Is it justifiable to kill this criminal? Would this action be pleasing to God? He is a felon; he has killed many men and plundered so many times
21. In fact, he was a felon like no other and instantly recognizable by his great height, heavy, brawny body, and powerful arms
22. So ended the criminal reign of that powerful felon at the hands of this honest officer who rid the people of a merciless and evil arch villain
23. the freedom to vote being barbed-wire fenced by taxation by documentation, residency verification, and felon disenfranchisement
24. He is a felon that aims to cause damage, aggression, dissension and rancor
25. Nick meets Kaitlyn O’Hardy while in the middle of attempting to capture and arrest a cornered and extremely dangerous felon who’s wanted by the FBI, INTERPOL, and just about every law enforcement agency in the United States and Mexico
26. Pregnant, married to a convicted felon, broke, about to be evicted from their home
27. As a high-school senior the Vegas police arrested him on an armed felon charge
28. I do not believe that a felon would be affronted to be hung by the team of you
29. In the meantime it was the heat of July and the felon could not breathe well beneath the hood and was in danger of suffocating to death
30. He was horrified to observe Judy's pale face due to the murderer's chokehold and he turned to fully confront the felon and to assist her
31. The limbs of the men guarding the felon had barely moved to restrain him since they had first realized he had a gun, but the expressions upon their faces revealed the sense of calamity that they were experiencing as it became apparent to them that they had failed miserably in their responsibilities to guard the murderer
32. Who do I appeal to, to have this money-grubbing felon removed from our
33. Like an arrested felon he was alone on the back seat of the police car
34. “Are you a felon or something?” Connor asked, sounding worried and curious, looking at me as if he could not believe his eyes
35. The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the
36. If I had often thought before, with something allied to shame, of my companionship with the fugitive whom I had once seen limping among those graves, what were my thoughts on this Sunday, when the place recalled the wretch, ragged and shivering, with his felon iron and badge! My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain
37. ” As a convicted felon, she could’ve gone to jail for possessing a weapon, but Lydia had been a single mother living in some very sketchy neighborhoods when she’d asked a guy at work to get one for her
38. In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,—of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,—of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,—of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,—of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,—in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be
39. Sir,—The man whom you are receiving at your house, and to whom you intend to marry your daughter, is a felon who escaped with me from confinement at Toulon
40. “Can any of us say that a man should be convicted of two counts of first-degree murder based on no eyewitnesses, no physical evidence, no forensic evidence, no confession—nothing more than the word of a convicted felon looking to cut a deal? And keep in mind, Judge, that it’s our theory that Chief James coerced the snitch into testifying
41. And therefore they are but like the felon that standeth before the judge, he quakes and trembles, and seems to repent most heartily, but the bottom of all is the fear of the halter; not that he hath any detestation of the offence, as is evident, because, let but this man have his liberty, and he will be a thief, and so a rogue still, whereas, if his mind was changed, he would be otherwise
42. The case might have been dealt leniently with, but the laws were more harshly administered thirty years ago than now, and on my twenty-third birthday I found myself chained as a felon with thirty-seven other convicts in 'tween-decks of the bark Gloria Scott, bound for Australia
43. Farebrother held that view of things dangerous: Nature was more just than that; it would be easy for any felon to say that his ancestors ought to have been hanged instead of him
44. I felt at once like a Prisoner of the Inquisition, or a Felon being put to the Peine Forte et Dure, for e’en as my Pains came in Waves, this other Force of cold Metal insinuated itself into my very Bowels, jabbing and twisting; ’twas groping, it seem’d, for the Head of the Babe, that refus’d, in its Obstinacy, to turn
45. A four-dimensional map of these badlands and its occupants was engraved on his mind—every unit and alley in the projects, every felon, juvenile offender, innocent citizen
46. These rules he gleaned gradually from his life, until he was master of the plantation, until James Flower pitifully leaned on his advice and his convictions, and until the Caribs and blacks and felon white men hated and feared him, and yet could make no dent in his being—could get no hold to hurt him
47. Where now is the Revolutionary hero to whom you are about to confide this sacred trust? To whom will you confide the charge of leading the flower of our youth to the Heights of Abraham? Will you find him in the person of an acquitted felon? What! then you were unwilling to vote an army where such men as had been named held high command! when Washington himself was at the head—did you then show such reluctance, feel such scruples; and are you now nothing loth, fearless of every consequence? Will you say that your provocations were less then than now? When your direct commerce was interdicted—your Ambassadors hooted with derision from the French Court—tribute demanded—actual war waged upon you!