Suppressing sin is much the same sort of task that suppressing a volcano would be--plugging one vent merely opens another.
Evil will last our time." "I cannot take your optimistic view of the case," answered MacShaughnassy.

"It seems to me that crime--at all events, interesting crime--is being slowly driven out of our existence.

Pirates and highwaymen have been practically abolished.

Dear old 'Smuggler Bill' has melted down his cutlass into a pint-can with a false bottom.

The pressgang that was always so ready to rescue our hero from his approaching marriage has been disbanded.