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Meanings of take red-handed in English

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Usage of take red-handed in English
1
Helene was taken red-handed in the theft of wine, and was dismissed.
She Stands Accused
2
Four poachers had been taken red-handed in the coverts farthest from Arleigh.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
3
With a start-asof one takenred-handed-Maryawoke from her dream.
The Marriage of William Ashe
4
Have me taken red-handed with the-stolen property-the'swag,' you know the word, perhaps, in my possession?
The Passenger from Calais
5
The guilty man was always taken red-handed.
West Wind Drift
6
Allen, taken red-handed, swung at Tyburn; Hind, with his better mount and defter horsemanship, rode clear away.
A Book of Scoundrels
7
They were the relics of criminals whom he had taken red-handed and preserved for the instruction of posterity.
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
8
He obtained timely help, however, and five of the assassins, taken red-handed, were at once hung without ceremony in the market-place.
Ali Pacha / Celebrated Crimes
9
It is as though a loyal regiment had mutinied, or a hitherto decent and orderly citizen were taken red-handed in murder.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
10
They had been taken red-handed in their guilt, for had not the pedlar's body been found in a disused cellar under their house?
The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. / An Illu...
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In the heat of blind fury one might conceive how a mad mob might beat and kill a man taken red-handed in a brutal murder.
Mob Rule in New Orleans / Robert Charles and His Fight to Death,...