Almagro's seem to have rivalled each other in the invention and perpetration of crimes. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Government to thwart the perpetration of the red-handed crimes contemplated by the leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details] Reference
"Wretch," said Legendre, "thou hast the strength of Hercules for the perpetration of crime.". From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
I obeyed, hoping to be able to prevent the perpetration of the terrible deed which she meditated. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
There is an element of comic pleasure in the perpetration of any mischievous or unconventional act. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
A half-and-half performance of the right is just about as mischievous as the perpetration of the wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
"But I know, thank Heaven, that the right feeling of the community is against the perpetration of them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
There is no crime that she is not capable of, if its perpetration be necessary to promote her own power. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I have been favoured -- if that is the proper word -- with a sight of an advance copy of this perpetration. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Moody fortunately perceived him, resolutely interposed, and prevented the perpetration of his nefarious design. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
You will consider whether further legislation be necessary to prevent the perpetration of such offenses in future. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
I met cases in point, and in none of them did the fear of the death sentence operate against the perpetration of crime. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
Court justifying a crime on the plea that the perpetration of the crime was advantageous to the culprit who committed it. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
This was too much for Tryphaena; she prevented the perpetration of so horrid a crime by the out and out promise of quarter. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
One outrage, however, permitted to pass with impunity almost necessarily encouraged the perpetration of another, until at last. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Even Nero withheld his eyes from scenes of cruelty, he indeed ordered murders to be perpetrated, but saw not the perpetration. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
United States made repeated reclamations on behalf of its citizens, but these were answered by the perpetration of new outrages. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
But we owe something to society -- society, whose structure was shaken to its very foundation by the perpetration of this crime!. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
Why did I hesitate to decide between Maillot and Burke in charging one or the other of them with the perpetration of this crime?. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Nay, it seems to rejoice in the very bravery of its perpetration, provided it only enables a fugitive slave to effect his escape. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The man who encouraged, or connived at, the lesser crime, could scarcely expect to prevent the perpetration of the greater and the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
And in any scenario there are enough things that take enough time that his perpetration of his death wish isn't going to happen overnight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2006] Reference
Does it not seem as if the very heavens must have been shrouded and the course of nature changed during the perpetration of such bloody crimes?. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference
Their capacity to combine, with the perpetration of atrocious crimes, an ardent apostolate of abstract ideals, had for him a vivid fascination. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Men may be ever so free from the perpetration of bloody deeds, personally, but their failure to object to any outrageous crime makes them particeps crimines. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Congress assumes to define a crime, and defining a crime gives to its own courts exclusive jurisdiction over the crime and the party charged with its perpetration. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
In the absence of sleep, and while engaged as was not unusual at this period in the perpetration of doggerel verse, the irritation of the stomach became intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
If any of those terrorists today were able to get a scissors of this length into a passenger cabin, it could have helped them in their perpetration of their attacks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2006] Reference
The father, as soon as he was able to move after the perpetration, applied for compensation under the Crimes Act, but as it was then to expire in about a fortnight, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
The enhancement would simply be automatic because of the sheer heinousness of an adult allowing a child to participate alongside him or her in the perpetration of a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Jacqueline Caster: A Novel Approach to Stem Gang Recruitment of Minors] Reference
The tyrant was moved with her distress; for unfeeling obduracy is the vice only of the old, whose sensibility has been worn away by the habitual perpetration of reiterated wrongs. From Wordnik.com. [Almoran and Hamet] Reference
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