"Indictable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which are still an official secret, he laid great stress on this point, and on Sir Evelyn Baring's message forbidding him to retire to the Equator, so that, if he sought safety in that direction, he would be indictable on ...
— The Life of Gordon, Volume II • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... Judge, "but dangerous-looking. His face is indictable at common law. Do you know, my dear, I think there is a blank at the Sheriff's office, with a place for his ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... in, read the letter, and said the last suggestion in it was a libel, and an indictable ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... the impeachment for a crime indictable in the courts prevent prosecution in the courts? ...
— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore
... mystery that must already oppress the reader, Mr. Bilkins's cook had, after the manner of her kind, stolen out of the premises before the family were up, and got herself married—surreptitiously and artfully married, as if matrimony were an indictable offence. ...
— A Rivermouth Romance • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... changing its shape and adapting itself to the circumstances of the people. If a man or body of men assert that things among them are ready for such new evolutions, and so undertake to bring them about, they do it at their peril, and failing, they are indictable for treason; they may be true patriots, they may be conscientious men; the sympathies of many good people may be with them, but they have sinned against the great law which protects mankind ...
— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams
... exclusively applied to petty larceny. "Stealing" is as well known to be a poetical term as it is to be an indictable offense; the Zephyr and the Vesper Hymn, cum multis aliis, are very prone to this practice. 2. "Swigging," drinking copiously—of malt liquor in particular. "Pearly drops of dew we drink."—OLD SONG. 3. "Plummiest," the superlative of "plummy," ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... was just about to partake of a particularly nice melon when who should walk in but that vulgar little spectre, hat jauntily placed on one side of his head, check-patterned trousers loud enough to wake the dead, and a green plaid vest about his middle that would be an indictable offence even on an American ...
— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... of indictable crimes consist in some violation of property rights; but that is too low a figure. A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery. There ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman |
