Like many a town in the Wild West

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In the two chapters immediately following, VIII and IX, the reader will learn something of the loss of all moral standards and the cruel, lawless violence to which the atheistic, anarchistic materialism of I.

With his gems,, they had bought the powerful carack and were now come into port to enlist a crew of lawless rogues from among the Barachan pirates.

Obviously, though, some persons who should have been here, were not, for when Fleech paused at unanswered names, Judge Lawless threw vicious glares about the place.

Now in the grasp of the men he had mistaken for police, Fleech was listening while Lawless called the roll himself.

Which was why Dave so suddenly sided against Fleech for trying to trick Judge Lawless.

But Fleech was addressing Judge Lawless in person, and the pitiful tones made sense.

One hand raised, Judge Lawless was about to fling it sideward as a signal for the firing squad to blast Fleech into oblivion.

Swung about by Dave, Fleech turned his gun in a new direction - toward Judge Lawless.

Seeing that the strugglers would serve him as shields, Lawless hurled himself upon them, and in the melee, Fleech broke loose.

The short shrift that Lawless had given Fleech was a most discouraging precedent for Dave to consider.

I am opposed to encouraging that lawless and mobocratic spirit, whether in relation to the Bank or anything else, which is already abroad in the land and is spreading with rapid and fearful impetuosity, to the ultimate overthrow of every institution, of every moral principle, in which persons and property have hitherto found security.

Instead, the Ruwendian kings complaisantly allowed lawless enclaves of these so-called Oddlings to persist, offtimes to the detriment of their legitimate subjects and the general peace and good order of the realm.

Yonder taks a long bend to the south afore it wins to the sea, and besides, Yondermouth is a well-kenned fisher toun where lawless doings wad be bridled--a toun like our ain Leven or Anster.

But, seeing that the thin veneer of modesty with which every woman of the world is furnished goes but a very little way below the surface, they began rather to enjoy this unedifying episode, and at bottom were hugely delighted-- feeling themselves in their element, furthering the schemes of lawless love with the gusto of a gourmand cook who prepares supper for another.

Nevertheless, all these irregular and apparently lawless catastrophes would be the result of an absolutely uniformitarian action, and we might have two schools of clock theorists, one studying the hammer and the other the pendulum.