Such things have, no doubt, been done occasionally; though rarely by judges.

People, especially women with doubtful pasts, are always open to threats of exposure, and may be induced to submit to blackmail.

Sir Gilbert Hawkesby was evidently--Meldon had ample evidence of this--determined to fish.

He was, according to Doyle and Sabina Gallagher, in a bad temper, and therefore, for the time, unscrupulous.

He had spent a most uncomfortable night.