"Prosecutor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the country of his adoption, and found refuge in an Irish constituency, that returned him without solicitation and without expense. He repaid them and the country by a vulgar jest, and now assumed the responsibility of their public prosecutor. ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny
... news books and pamphlets of news' was put forth in 1680. Vigorous action against recalcitrants followed, and with such pliant tools as those perjured wretches, Scroggs and Jeffreys, for judge and prosecutor, convictions and the 'extremest punishment of the law' became a foregone conclusion. Doubtless there were many vile scribblers who deserved to have the severest penalties inflicted upon them, but no discrimination was used, and good and bad alike experienced the ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various
... nor oath of the prosecutor are sufficient for conviction without token (chino) of the robbery, namely, some article recovered of the goods ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden
... To end. The cove tipped the prosecutor fifty quid to stash the business; he gave the prosecutor fifty ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... be a sidestepping. There were among his friends, men of dubious integrity with elastic scruples and pliable consciences. But skepticism thrust in vain at the Hazlitt armor. In him had been authentically born the mania for conformity. He was a prosecutor by birth. Against that which did not conform, against all that squirmed for some expression beyond the tick-tock of life, he was a force—an apostle with a sword. Men pretending virtues as relentless as his own were often inclined to eye him askance. ...
— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht
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