What is "lawbreaker"

Usage examples of "lawbreaker".

He familiarized himself with the descriptions of every lawbreaker suspected of being in Kansas or Nebraska, visited the saloons, barber shop, general store, and pharmacy--where he was disgusted to find the irritating dandy, Joe Brooks, dispensing patent medicines.

To her a group of guys suddenly taking over or renting a warehouse and not bringing in a lot of stuff to store screamed suspicion, but she was a fellow lawbreaker, not an enforcer.

Edgar got down off his bunk, and stood uncertainly beside Shark - a reluctant lawbreaker who found himself increasingly committed to evading justice.

The outlook of mature lawbreakers he could understand, if not empathize with.

On more than one occasion, for example, he had been able to envisage how certain lawbreakers would respond in the aftermath of their actions, thus enabling the police to find them almost immediately.

On small worlds, small-time lawbreakers assumed an importance all out of proportion to their actual significance.

I also became acutely aware of the sometimes precarious, indistinguishable line between lawbreakers and lawmen.

We are the first lawbreakers, and that we have survived this long is fit punishment.

Bush is living with the fantasy that many of these lawbreakers will vote for a Republican in the next election.

In the middle of the room assorted lawbreakers gathered round a table were playing fan-tan at the top of their lungs.

It was a cynical world, when the lawmakers and the lawbreakers mingled together behind the scenes.