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Does not the Progress, by Degrees, of a Madman into a Malefactor excite mix't Passions of Pity & Fear in rational Persons, who may justly insist upon Correction when Lunacy becomes Criminal?
"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008
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Can you imagine, because a King gave away his Crowne and Scepter; and an Abbot (without any cost to himselfe) reconciled a Malefactor to the Pope; and an old idle-headed man, yeelding to the mercy of his enemy: that all those actions are comparable to this of Signior Gentile?
The Decameron 2004
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Aggravations of Meanness and Knavery against each other, that, I confess, I shall never see a poor Malefactor go to suffer Death for robbing another of ten Pounds upon the High-Way, but I shall look with Compassion on his
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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(Deceitfully concealing a vagueness of recollection about this aspirant, who had been pronounced worthless.) Malefactor (overcome by suggestion of the semimythical Kavirondo rival): "Oh, Bwana, have me beaten, but keep me as gun-bearer!"
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Borrow had been taken by two Guards "like a Malefactor, to the Common Prison, where he would have been confined with Criminals of every description if he had not had money to pay for a Cell to Himself."
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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Malefactor who is about to the Tried in the Federal Courts!
Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905
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Passengers who had seen the Cartoons might recognize him as the notorious Malefactor.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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He knew if he went drilling through the Pullmans, some of the Passengers who had seen the Cartoons might recognize him as the notorious Malefactor.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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Malefactor, and invited him to come back and dine with us at Prince's before catching the late train for Oxford.
Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Malefactor; it being a tradition that he poisoned an aunt or a grandparent annually, towards the close of May.
Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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