"Self-convicted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... altogether. I mean the fatal detection by the police that we were violating my passport. That document had already outrun the statute of limitations, and left me no better than an outlaw. For practical purposes my character was gone, and being thus self-convicted I might ...
— Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan • Percival Lowell
... in this manner, both the young men stood before him in the attitude of self-convicted criminals. At the conclusion of his rebuke, Hartley turned frankly round, and, offered his hand to his companion, who accepted it, but after a moment's hesitation. There was nothing farther passed on the subject, but the lads ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott |
