Word: felons
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...mind is keen, look upon sign-stealing as anything but humorous, and have taken to shooting at "sign-raggers." The huge joke of sign-stealing does not come home clearly to us; in any case it is a joke which may be followed by six months imprisonment and a felon's brand for life...
...entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading...