defalcate
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No one can defalcate in this particular; no one can Texas-ize and be quit of his transgressions and his onward travel.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
Jest like a criminal he skipped, an' aimed to defalcate The Chewed-ear Jenkins Hirsute Propagation Syndicate.
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Robespierre, on the extreme Left, with perhaps Petion and lean old Goupil, for the very Triumvirate has defalcated, are shrieking hoarse; drowned in Constitutional clamour.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Carlyle to Emerson Chelsea, London, 8 December, 1839 My Dear Emerson,—What a time since we have written to one another! was it you that defalcated?
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
The plasterers were hindered; the painters misunderstood orders; the paperers have defalcated, and the universe generally comes to a pause.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 by Various
Roloff mentions Baron Schlubhut the defalcating Amtmann, hanged at Konigsberg without even a trial.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Carlyle, Thomas
