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Lord is pronouncing sentence on an assassin who had stabbed a soldier: "You did not only maliciously, wickedly, and feloniously stab or cut his person, thereby depriving him of his life, but did also sever the band of his military breeches, which are her Majesty's."
Dark forms swarmed up the ladders and over the walls. MacNair grabbed the rungs of a ladder and drew himself up. Above him climbed the Indian who had carried the ladder. He had no gun, but the grey blade of a long knife flashed wickedly between his teeth. The Indian crashed backward, carrying MacNair with him into the snow. MacNair struggled to his feet.
'Thanks to your Government, all our heads are protected, and with the educational facilities at my command' his eyes twinkled wickedly 'I might be a distinguished member of the local administration. Perhaps, in time, I might even be a member of a Legislative Council. 'Don't speak English, said Lalun, bending over her sitar afresh.
He did not look at my dress, but he said to me, rather wickedly, looking at my bouquet: "Dear me! I hardly hoped to see spring flowers so late in the summer." Then he raised his eyes to mine, and I am conscious that I blushed. "It's very warm. You feel very warm, I am sure, my dear Miss Tattle," he continued, looking straight at my face. "You are sufficiently cool, at least, I think," replied I.
He chuckled wickedly, but Winthrop pretended not to hear, and his sister maintained an expression of utter dejection.
It is as much a duty sometimes to stay ourselves and wonder, and to confess our ignorance in many things of God, as it is to do other things that are duty without dispute. So then, let poor dust and ashes forbear to condemn the Lord, because he goeth beyond them; and also they should beware they speak not wickedly for him, though it be, as they think, to justify his actions.
Then, 'The Little Masterson, is it? he continued, advancing to the girl, and saluting her with mock ceremony. 'Among friends, I suppose? Well, my dear, for the future be pleased to count me among them. Welcome to my poor house! And here's to bettering your taste for, fie, my love, old men are naughty. Have naught to do with them! And he laughed wickedly.
Lockwood went on to say that "for the sake of snatching paltry pence from the public, these persons had wickedly sought to prejudice the prisoner's life." Allowing for Mr. Lockwood's zeal as an advocate, there can be no question that, had Peace chosen or been in a position to take proceedings, more than one newspaper had at this time laid itself open to prosecution for contempt of Court.
She hung her head, then flung it back again as she thought of Armand. "I hate him!" she cried; "I hate him!" "You will not throw meal on me any more, or call me idiot?" he pleaded. "No, Parpon," she said. He kissed her on the cheek. She did not resent it. But now he drew away, smiled wickedly at her, and said: "See, we are even now, poor Julie!"
She turned, now, again to Kreutzer. Everything considered she made good weather of it on a difficult occasion. "My dear Count," she pleaded, "won't you reconsider, please?" The old flute-player shook his head. "I do not wish to hurt your feelings, Madame, but it is impossible impossible." "Mother," said John Vanderlyn, not viciously, but, still, a little wickedly, "you are up against it.
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