We have no meanings for "common malefactor" in our records yet.
1 I mean that he is no common malefactor or whatever it may be.
2 The idea that I should suffer the indignity of being bound and gagged, like a common malefactor , made my blood boil.
3 Reason equals Shepherd to Regulus; but prejudice, and the recency of the fact, make Shepherd a common malefactor and Regulus a hero.
4 They struck off his head like that of a common malefactor , and by the hair she carried it to the Knight of Trony.
5 At least it must not suffer the fate of common malefactors .
6 What hope for ordinary culprits when the proudest feudal nobles were executed or exiled, like common malefactors ?
7 Not only were they confined to prison, but, to their indignation, irons were placed on their legs, as if they had been common malefactors .
8 They were again shut in the inner prison, among all the common malefactors of the place, and were each bound with five pairs of fetters.
9 "And we of the country have always known how to distinguish between common malefactors and the gentlemen of the road."
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