What is "culprit"

Usage examples of "culprit".

By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.

The culprit, Captain Audion, dead at his console with his accomplices scattered around him like so many checked pawns.

The inquest on the exhumed body of Cora McCanley, which had been held on the day following the exhumation, had resulted in a verdict of murder by person or persons unknown, although a small but rowdy school of thought, not in our own village of Saltmarsh, but in Much and Little Hartley and the purlieus of Lower Bossingbury, were of the strong opinion that poor Bob was the culprit here as well, and had all three murders to his account.

But the Bush-Quayle campaign has not depicted race in any way, shape, or form, either as to any culprit from the furlough program, or any victim of such a culprit.

Friday penance sessions in the gymnasium continued to delight him and prevent his boredom, for he attended them from his secret hiding place in the Snuggery and, at times, just as we have already described, crept out when the culprits were blindfold and pinioned, to feel their bosoms and bottoms and sometimes even, when the mood seized him, to fustigate their plump white backsides and revel in their squirmings and sobbing pleas for pardon.

Upen-dranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit.

Lower Wooders and Middle Lotters would be in that region, and the culprits would never be found out from among such a large crowd.

The culprit turned out to be the most benevolent source of all: squalene, an extract of shark liver oil, with which U.

And Maude and Alice saw to it that always new culprits were introduced to the disconcerting ordeal of the blindfold, the dome or the straight-backed chair, aware of his keen predilection for watching delightfully contoured bottoms and thighs squirming under the swishing cuts of the birch or noisy smacks of the leafcutter, tawse or spanker.

The auburn-haired culprit, now that she was pinioned and helpless, ground her teeth, closed her eyes under the blindfold and resolved to give her tormentresses no satisfaction of her suffering.

As, however, the investigation of the matter was entrusted to de Vardes, it is needless to say that the culprits escaped detection.

Mr Jeffrey, it was a most unrelenting tribunal for literary culprits, as well as a determined assertor of its own political maxims.

When even excommunication failed to make him yield and church bells had been silenced in important sees, the clergy in extremity had summoned Bernard from Clairvaux to bring the culprit to submission.

Brother Mongan to be dealt with, and the New Faith will doubtless have something to say on that before they hand the culprits over to Faichen Glas.

Majesty has the utmost trust in Scotland Yard, and Palgrave thinks your cousin is the culprit.