And most curious of all, how exactly could this dastardly crime have been carried off?

The ancient precedent is proper, and such a dastardly crime will never be repeated after the example we set today.

Another common storyline is one in which the children overhear the planning or execution of some dastardly crime.

"She is wanted, sir," he said, "for dastardly crimes."

Your calumnies have caused her infinite sorrow more bitter for her to bear than the dastardly crime which you did commit against her person.

But after a dastardly crime puts the fate of the Fair in peril, only you can piece together the clues and collar the criminal.

The progressives were accused of a dastardly crime: "presentism."

History will remember the dastardly crime, and we will honor the Six.

You blame everyone but yourself - the police, the press, the district attorney - and refuse to accept responsibility for your dastardly crimes.

Lady Justice lies bleeding on the ground, and those who have bloods in their hands must be made to answer for this dastardly crime!