Crossword-Solution: DELINQUENT 10 letters, 127 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Mighty was their fuss about little matters, and marvellous, sometimes, the obtuseness that allowed greater ones to slip between their fingers! Whenever such a mischance occurred—when a waggon-load of valuable merchandise had been smuggled ashore, at noonday, perhaps, and directly beneath their unsuspicious noses—nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double-lock, and secure with tape and sealing-wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel.

Like so many delinquent school-boys, the others cowered before him, ashamed, put to confusion, unable to find their tongues.

The penalty of cheating at any game is liability to penal servitude for three years--the delinquent being proceeded against as one who obtains money under false pretences.

The Friar now presented the fatal paper to the Prioress, informed her of the manner in which he had found it, and added, that it was her business to decide, what penance the delinquent merited.

Mobs of a menacing character assembled in different parts of London; fears of riots were generally entertained, especially as the examination of a still greater delinquent was expected by many to have a similar termination.