interposed Renee, "I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty
offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M.
And, like his olden nights, his ukase went forth that there should be no quarrelling nor fighting,
offenders to be dealt with by him personally.
As it was, the murder of the white men, of any white man, would bring a man-of-war that would kill the
offenders and chop down the precious cocoanut trees.
These two men are old
offenders," he explained to the angry owner; "and they are most persistent violators of the fish and game laws.
After the first two or three strange dogs had been downed and destroyed, the white men hustled their own animals back on board and wrecked savage vengeance on the
offenders.
The state's magnanimity to those
offenders whom it would
Promises and agreements were broken, and most drastic punishments visited upon even petty
offenders.
But first, the Prosecuting Attorney, who was paid to prosecute all
offenders against the People, drew him aside and talked with him privately.
And of those who in this way beat out a footpath such as these gentlemen have just been complaining about, which are the real
offenders, the workers or the people who are simply amusing themselves?
However, the chief
offenders for the time were flogged and kept in bounds; but the victorious party had brought a nice hornet's nest about their ears.
The Hobo, my dear fellow, is the name for that particular place of detention in city and county jails wherein are assembled tramps, drunks, beggars, and the riff-raff of petty
offenders.
But now, when, as I have said, I began to be weary of the fruitless excursion which I had made so long and so far every morning in vain, so my opinion of the action itself began to alter; and I began, with cooler and calmer thoughts, to consider what I was going to engage in; what authority or call I had to pretend to be judge and executioner upon these men as criminals, whom Heaven had thought fit for so many ages to suffer unpunished to go on, and to be as it were the executioners of His judgments one upon another; how far these people were
offenders against me, and what right I had to engage in the quarrel of that blood which they shed promiscuously upon one another.
