...the way to his cottage, and she would prepare a still sharper rod in pickle for Isaac later still. " As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb," he repeated to himself. How those young fellows did talk ! and what could they have to talk about after...

...the way to his cottage, and she would prepare a still sharper rod in pickle for Isaac later still. " As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb," he repeated to himself. How those young fellows did talk ! and what could they have to talk about after...

...such small offences would naturally, one would think, suggest to other intending malefactors that they might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb — for a great crime as for a little one. Better luck, in 1507, had Emma Barefoot, a prisoner in gaol...

...wait for him with a rod in pickle, would often tend to intensify his paroxysms while they lasted. " As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb," he would think, or rather feel ; " since I am doomed to a fit of remorse, why not unpack my whole heart...

...horse-stealing. And horse-stealing was a hanging matter. But I had done so much already that I felt 1 might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb. I was not sure that I had not incited to treason, and what was stealing a horse beside that? "I will...

...the situation over his solitary breakfast-table the less it pleased him ; but he decided at last that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, and that before writing the inevitable reply he would offer himself in due form to Miss Faunthorpe,...

...that, when Bontet discovered that the necklace was in the inn, the two scoundrels, thinking that they might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, had determined to make another attempt to secure the coveted spoil ; how, in pursuance of this scheme,...

...had already proclaimed them rebels, and would hang them for signing any part of the agreement ; one might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, and as for himself he was not going to be satisfied with half support. They must choose between Berkeley...

...days does it take the said Indians to perform this voyage ? 1 Though Chepo evidently considered that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, most native traditions have some slight substratum of truth, and he may have been relating a garbled...

...an illusion ; and still you do not feel ready to insist," — on the principle, apparently, that one might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, — " that the partial evil is universal good."1 Nay, it seems that in matters of science we not only...