The force of depravity should no farther flow to corrupt the finest and best.

He entered the boudoir of the royal favorite and stabbed her to the heart.

In the morning, he gave himself up to the police.
The victim was so notorious that the Clemenceau trial was a nine days' wonder.

His advocate was eloquent to a fault, but that inexplicable thing, the jury, found no extenuating circumstances in the act and brought in the verdict of murder.

The good men were incapable of appreciating the right he claimed to stop the blighting career of Messalina--to divorce with steel where the state of the law, then meekly following the ecclesiastical ruling, forbade any sundering of the connubial tie except by death.
He met his doom calmly and laid his head beneath the axe with a martyr's brow.