caitiff in a sentence

Examples

1. In 1819, while in America, Cobbett published a savage attack on Wright in the " Register ", alleging that he had detected him falsifying his accounts and describing graphically " the big round drops of sweat that in a cold winter's day rolled down the caitiff's forehead " when his villainy was discovered.
2. Superstition, you see, turns them into caitiffs ! " This knocked over poor Burchett so much, the transaction came to nothing " Scott comments that Burchett : " gave himself up to historical painting on a rather large scale, just the kind of art which English taste and the R . Academy as the mediocre exponent of the same would like to crush out of existence ".
3. Near the village of Logierait in Perthshire is the hollow ` ash tree of the Boat of Logierait, which, 63 feet in height and 40 in girth at 3 feet from the ground, is said to have been ` " the dool tree of the district, on which caitiffs and robbers were formerly executed, and their bodies left hanging till they dropped and lay around unburied . "'