That venerable political firebrand had been adjudged guilty of contempt of court and had been sentenced to seven days 'imprisonment as a first-class misdemeanant. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
An analysis of good time allowances in Connecticut correctional facilities and the effects on misdemeanant and felon sentences (Research report of the Connecticut Department of Correction) by Donald M Parker. From Wordnik.com. [Who Gets to Vote? State's Struggle to Register Veterans, Felons and Minorities] Reference
He was probably treated as a first time misdemeanant on the first violation. From Wordnik.com. [California Progress Report] Reference
He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
To be a "first-class misdemeanant" seems to me the height of happiness for a literary man. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Some of my running buddies went to prison, but I was more of a misdemeanant, spending hours. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Split en banc Seventh Circuit in Skoien upholds categorical exclusion of DV misdemeanant from. From Wordnik.com. [Sentencing Law and Policy] Reference
Father M'Fadden of Gweedore, lying in Londonderry jail as a first-class misdemeanant, was brought from Londonderry as a witness for the niece. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)] Reference
The press was put up to state that, far from making such an undignified advance, the Council had asserted its authority and peremptorily summoned the misdemeanant Kuhn to withdraw his troops immediately from Slovakia under heavy pains and penalties. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
There, to the humiliation and surprise of the Lintons, the lame little vagrant was discovered to be Miss Earnshaw, and her fellow-misdemeanant, "that strange acquisition my late neighbour made in his journey to Liverpool -- a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.". From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
Paul was, as we say, a kind of first-class misdemeanant, as Samuel Rutherford also was in his prison-palace in Aberdeen, and the Lady Robertland in Stewarton House; they had a liberty that was not to be despised; they had light and air and exercise; they were not in chains in the dungeon; they had pen and ink; they had books and papers, and their friends might on occasion visit them. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents] Reference
A first example of the influence more directly exercised by the new ideas in penal legislation is furnished by the proposal already realised in the penal laws of Holland, Italy, &c., of two parallel systems of punishment by detention -- one for the graver and more dangerous crimes, and the other, "simple detention," or custodia honesta ( "as a first-class misdemeanant"), for contraventions, involuntary offences, and crimes not inspired by the baser passions. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Sociology] Reference
A firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Here, a judge is being tough on a persistent misdemeanant, and the Post is criticizing him, too. ". From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
Under our own rule, no matter what statesmen like Gladstone and John Morley have in past years urged in favour of the mitigation of penalties for political offences, such offences are, as a matter of fact, punished with special severity; unless, of course, the culprit is intimately connected with great riches, like Dr. Jameson, who was imprisoned as a first-class misdemeanant for the incalculable crime of making private war upon another State; or unless the culprit is intimately connected with votes, like Mr. Ginnell, the Irish cattle-driver, who was treated with similar politeness. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
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