misdoer
Example Sentences
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Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
Saint Edmund from the horizon's edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.
From The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion.
From The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
