Prove the intent, and the misdemeanour is complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alexandra] Reference

After I had relocked my cell doors and cleaned up all evidence of the 'misdemeanour'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12 - Stage One] Reference

Like Watts has so got to be punished for her 'misdemeanour', even though she's been 'enlightened'.    From Wordnik.com.  [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference

Teacher pierces bamboo stick in boy's hand for his "misdemeanour".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

'misdemeanour' is a 'lesser crime' - this is wrong!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

"misdemeanour" although he was heading the Moral Regeneration.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"misdemeanour" under that statute, any person who should wantonly and needlessly destroy the old monumental and architectural relics of his country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference

Had I ever been convicted of any crime or misdemeanour?.    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

Saw's retainers had been cruelly flogged for some misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference

This was a heinous misdemeanour in the upright old sailor's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

'Do not let Fergus lead you into misdemeanour, and take care of yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

I told him there would not be any fear of misdemeanour of that kind with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

Joan of Arc. Your obstinacy has driven me into the commission of a misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

At the same time it should be a misdemeanour in anyone else to supply him gratuitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

For this high crime and misdemeanour he had been sentenced to three years 'imprisonment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Bail may be taken by two justices in cases of felony, and by one in cases of misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

Either the man must beg, which in itself is, of course, a misdemeanour, or he must starve.    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

For the slightest misdemeanour we were consigned to the cells for one, two, three, or more days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

To cough during a performance attracts embarrassing attention, a sneeze almost amounts to misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany] Reference

He was an unfortunate young sailor, a native of England, guilty of some misdemeanour, and by name Aikin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference

Immediately afterward he was tried on a charge of misdemeanour, and on a technicality was again acquitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

She laughed a little, and Anstice asked, smiling, what had been the extent of Cherry's latest misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

Any one who sends a minor under the age of 18 to a saloon, gambling house, or brothel, is guilty of a misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference

LABOUR LAWS: People employing children under 14 in acrobatic or mendicant occupations are guilty of a misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference

One badgered private assaulted him violently with a pitchfork, and suffered two years 'imprisonment for that misdemeanour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

First he committed the original misdemeanour; then he kept silent about it when it might have been better for him to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

A conference between the two houses had been held, and Wilkes was charged with this misdemeanour before the bar of the commons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Poor innocent, he is tramping off to a distant country appointment in simple ignorance of the misdemeanour of which he is guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

It is a misdemeanour to give to a woman any drug so as to stupefy her, and so enable any person to have unlawful connection with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference