The king bade imprison him; whereupon they threw him in jail, and he fell to saying in himself, what while he was in the prison, "All that hath befallen me is of the abundance of my sins and my tyranny, for, indeed, I have slain much people unrighteously and this is the requital of my deeds and that which I have wrought whilome of oppression."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
And the brother said, "As for me, I required my brother's wife of her person and she refused; whereupon despite and ignorance prompted me and I lied against her and accused her to the townsfolk of adultery; so they stoned her and slew her wrongously and unrighteously; and this my complaint is the issue of unright and falsehood and of the slaying of the innocent soul, whose slaughter Allah hath made unlawful to man."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Who but I understood what lack of freedom meant to the strong-meant to caged creatures, unrighteously deprived of liberty!
"The Maids of Paradise"
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers