Example Sentences

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He was at once a social register, containing the most minute and extensive data, and an index criminis, unabridged.

From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by McFall, J. V.

And, moreover, abduction is a special kind of case, seeing that if the participes criminis are free the femme sole, sometimes called the femina capta, is in greater danger.

From The Castle Inn by Weyman, Stanley John

In treason, all the participes criminis are principals; there are no accessaries to this crime.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore

"If you put it that way, I've made myself particeps criminis," he said gravely.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

With rather cheerful sadness, it must be confessed, we became particeps criminis, and made a supper on the pork.

From War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 by Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)