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Examples
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In handing down sentence, Magistrate Khan said by pleading guilty,
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Whilst I am not trying to defend members who may be guilty,
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Therefore, of many that were concerned, he apprehended eight only, two of whom, who were first proceeded against and most guilty,
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Before, there was an assumption that white people were guilty, that they were bad and it was only a question of finding them guilty,
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In the course of that long and earnest effort to find Porter guilty,
Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield
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He died by the hands of sinners as a malefactor, the innocent for the guilty,
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 1817-1893 1906
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To the eye of science everything is possible in human life, the sacrifice of the innocent for the sake of the progress of the guilty,
Leo Tolstoy 1903
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Twelve slips of paper were handed out, to be indorsed guilty,
Eli First published in the "Century Magazine" Heman White Chaplin 1885
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If the day ever comes when the innocent no longer swing for the guilty,
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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"That I declare I didn't!" cried the accused, and the two boys now gazed severely at their men, who looked at one another, as if feeling guilty,
Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain George Manville Fenn 1870
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