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public enemy n
(Law) a notorious person, such as a criminal, who is regarded as a menace to the public How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That this correspondence with the public enemy was not a correspondence of to-day, or of yesterday, or even of last year, or of the year before. It was finally decided that the whole nation of Pygmies should set to work to destroy Hercules; not, be it understood, from any doubt that a single champion would be capable of putting him to the sword, but because he was a public enemy, and all were desirous of sharing in the glory of his defeat. Cornish was attacked as though he had suddenly become a public enemy, when he set out to establish the first telephone service. |
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