"Law-breaker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heads thrust through the windows to watch the denouement. Satisfactory explanations would generally follow the final command; but occasionally a babel of recrimination would ensue, and become gradually indistinct as the poor law-breaker was hustled ...
— The Siege of Kimberley • T. Phelan
... of Elliot rose. The man, after all, was a law-breaker, a menace to civilization. He was a survivor by reason of his strength from the primitive wolf-pack. Already the special agent had heard many strange stories of how this man of steel had risen to supremacy by trampling down lesser men with whom he had had dealings, of terrible ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... important part in his continued search after the fugitive burglar. Finding that nothing more could be learned in Des Moines, and receiving assurances from the friendly chief that any information would be forwarded to him at once, Manning departed from the home of the youthful law-breaker and started for ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... A man accuses your brother of being a law-breaker! Have you hitherto known of any criminal tendencies ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... a game could recover by law unless he proved that the rules of the game had not been followed. The rules for gambling were regarded as legitimate as the regulations of any business. The gambler was only a law-breaker when he "cheated." Now gambling is unlawful in every state and territory, and any newspaper advertising a lottery is shut out of our mails. Even an "honest" gambler is ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
... enlisted in the service of morality. But neither is religion. Both may be. At any rate it is evident that when boy nature is subjected to city conditions we must either provide proper outlet and guidance for the boy's play instincts or be guilty of forcing him into the position of a law-breaker ...
— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben
... his conciliatory policy, read his instructions from Washington, affirmed his determination to keep peace, and appealed personally to Atchison to aid him in enforcing law and preserving order. That wily chief, seeing that refusal would put him in the attitude of a law-breaker, feigned a ready compliance, and he and Reid, his factotum commander, made eloquent speeches "calculated to produce submission to the legal demands made upon them."[14] Some of the lesser captains, however, were mutinous, and treated the Governor to choice bits of Border-Ruffian rhetoric. ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... all," responded Roy non-committally. He didn't want to show this red-headed law-breaker that he was afraid ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... England history. This man had a most pertinacious regard for his private rights, and at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Providence his career of trouble was very much the same. But he was not an ordinary law-breaker, and in Providence, in 1641, Gorton and his friends refused to submit to a distress ordained by the magistrates, for the reason that these magistrates, having no charter, had no better authority to make laws than ...
— England in America, 1580-1652 • Lyon Gardiner Tyler
... quiet way preserves the dignity of the home. From our standpoint the white man is a law-breaker! The "Great Mystery," we say, does not adorn the woman above the man. His law is spreading horns, or flowing mane, or gorgeous plumage for the male; the female he made plain, but comely, modest and gentle. She is the foundation of man's dignity and honor. Upon ...
— Old Indian Days • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman |
