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Meanings of chief offender in English

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Usage of chief offender in English
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Sedition and conspiracy existed; a chief offender and master mind there was, somewhere.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
2
Starch is surely the chief offender in aging people.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
3
I also settled one assault and battery case, and put the chief offender under arrest.
Notes of a War Correspondent
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Naturally enough, woman, with her delicately balanced nervous organisation, is the first and chief offender.
The Dream Doctor
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The chief offender in any given case may be an executive, a legislature, or a judge.
State of the Union Addresses
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The house of Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor, was demolished, while Bernard, the chief offender, was left undisturbed.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Vo...
7
Pardon me, for I am the chief offender!
Robert Hardy's Seven Days: A Dream and Its Consequences
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Speaking of them as a set, the chief offender was Mr. Harold Smith, or perhaps his wife.
Framley Parsonage
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That was the condition of affairs in Haddon Hall, and I felt that I was the chief offender.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
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Thus the chief offender got the lightest punishment, and thus did the omnipotent Church rule the whole community.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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Romantic as was his exploit, it lacked the fullness of poetic justice, since the chief offender escaped him.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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Romantic as his exploit was, it lacked the fulness of poetic justice, since the chief offender escaped him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 / A Maga...
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The chief offender was Kane himself.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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While that thought was uppermost in his troubled emotions, Linton, the other chief offender, came in, Presson with him.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
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Amsterdam was the chief offender.
History of Holland
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No injury is to be done to the chief offender, who is to be immediately brought to my presence.
Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion
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