misdemeaning

Updated: May 26, 2025

In the third week of our hero's captivity Tomlinson communicated to him a plan of escape that had occurred to his sagacious brain. In the yard appropriated to the amusements of the gentlemen "misdemeaning," there was a water-pipe that, skirting the wall, passed over the door through which every morning the pious captives passed in their way to the chapel.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete

In the time of Richard II. it was not considered in any way misdemeaning to receive a present for services rendered a chain of gold, arms and armour, and even purses of money were so received with as little hesitation as were ransoms for prisoners taken in battle.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - A March on London

In the third week of our hero's captivity Tomlinson communicated to him a plan of escape that had occurred to his sagacious brain. In the yard appropriated to the amusements of the gentlemen "misdemeaning," there was a water-pipe that, skirting the wall, passed over the door through which every morning the pious captives passed in their way to the chapel.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 02