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But he was not content with calling him a blockhead; he represented him as a profligate man, who, while libelling the princes and pretending to be the champion of God's ordinances, himself practised open adultery, committed acts of violence and insolent tyranny, and incited men to incendiarism in his opponents' territories.
'I hope it will find him at home when it is, said Caffyn; 'these things generally find the culprits "out" in more senses than one, to use an old Joe Miller. He would look extremely well in the Old Bailey dock. But this is Utopian, Uncle. 'Well we shall see. I turn off here, so good-bye. If you meet that libelling scoundrel again, you remember what I've told you.
He was prosecuted for libelling a shipmaster for transporting slaves, was convicted and fined fifty dollars. The amount, so far as his ability to pay was involved, might as well have been a million. He went to prison, being incarcerated in a cell just vacated by a man who had been hanged for murder, and there he remained for seven weeks.
"Item 2, sir, states that at least two West End firms are threatening you with proceedings if you do not discharge their accounts within a reasonable time." "A lie!" declared the Baron emphatically. "Will you be so kind as to favor us with the name of the individual who is thus libelling his lordship?" demanded the Count with a serious air. Mr.
Fan also laughed, she could not help laughing in spite of the intense indignation she felt against Mary's rejected suitor for libelling her in such an infamous manner. "Do you know that it is beginning to rain?" he said, holding his umbrella over her head. "We must go in there and wait until it pauses." It was one o'clock, and the refreshment rooms had just opened.
Taltavull was sitting up amongst the scrubs, and was shaking a trembling fist at the boat and snarling out the word "iconoclast." "'Iconoclast' indeed. Faith, that's the pot libelling the kettle most unjustly. I say, Cospatric, just take that melodramatic old fool's gun away from him, and wring his neck if he won't behave himself. My dear Mrs. Cromwell, I must really apologize for our companion.
Would you believe it, a lady of my acquaintance, aged forty-two, recognized herself in the twenty-year-old heroine of my story, "The Grasshopper" and all Moscow is accusing me of libelling her. The chief proof is the external likeness. The lady paints, her husband is a doctor, and she is living with an artist. I can't endure such stories. I write it as it were by accident, thoughtlessly.
No, my Lords, that is no State Necessity; tear off the mask, and you see coarse, vulgar avarice, you see speculation, lurking under the gaudy disguise, and adding the guilt of libelling the public honor to its own private fraud. "My Lords, I say this, because I am sure the Managers would make every allowance that state-necessity could claim upon any great emergency. No."
What assurance are you going to give me that you will keep your mouth shut as to what you've heard this afternoon?" "I give you my word," began Ames, eagerly. Enoch raised his hand. "Don't be silly, Ames. Do you know that I can make serious legal trouble for you for your part in libelling me and the Department?" "But Brown said his lawyers " "Brown's lawyers?
"'Because it deals in personal abuse, if not in downright libelling. "'I will pay for its insertion, he said. "'So much the worse for me, to insert a libelous article for money, I said. 'On the face of it it appears a personal pique against the party. "'But we have a free press in this country, he insisted.
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