Such men never feel! What feeling can one expect from a convicted thief?'
'Not convicted yet, my dear,' said the bishop. 'A convicted thief,' repeated Mrs Proudie; and she vociferated the words in such a tone that the bishop resolved that he would for the future let the word convicted pass without notice. After all she was only using the phrase in a peculiar sense given to it by herself. 'It won't be proper, certainly, that he should do the services,' suggested the bishop. 'Proper! It would be a scandal to the whole diocese. How could he raise his head as he pronounced the eighth commandment?英文原著 · 《The Last Chronicle of Barset》
At the meeting of the Social Science Congress, held at Liverpool, in 1876, Mr. Nugent stated that upwards of 4,107 women had relapsed four times or oftener, and that many of them were classed as incorrigible, having been convicted twenty; forty, or fifty times, whilst one had been convicted 130 times. The judicial statistics of Italy for 1887 give the following results:--
ITALY--Convicted, per cent. Relapses. Justices of Tribunals. Assizes. Peace. Once ...英文原著 · 《Criminal Sociology》
Whether an actual vision had made his conviction, or whether the conviction of his own subconscious mind had made the dream, seemed but a small matter beside the conviction that this was indeed the God he had desired and the God who must rule his life.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
As it has received conviction of the truth of the being of the Spirit of God; for to receive conviction of the truth and being of such things, comes from the Spirit of God, not from the law, sense, or reason; 1 Cor. 10-12. Now the understanding having, by the Holy Ghost, received conviction of the truth of things, draweth out the heart to cry in prayer to God for them. Therefore he saith, he would pray with the understanding.英文原著 · 《The Pharisee And The Publican》
Peter Tounley's task was not light, and beyond that he had the conviction that his struggle with Coke was making him also to appear as a rowdy. This conviction was proven to be true by a sudden thunder from the old professor, " Mr. Tounley, desist !英文原著 · 《Active Service》
In his conviction that everybody in the world was at this time considering him a mere worm, he was sure that she would not heed him. Beyond that he had been presented to her notice in but a transient and cursory fashion. But contrary to his conviction, she turned a radiant smile upon him. " Oh," she said, brusquely, " you are one of the students. Good morning." In her manner was all the confidence of an old warrior, a veteran, who addresses the universe with assurance because of his past battles.英文原著 · 《Active Service》