When they continued to ask, he stood and said: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Her real crime, she said, may have been telling the truth.

Her only crime, a common one, was not to have the attitudes of 125 years later.

Before, I would have held this to be a crime, but now I felt no compunction.

This lowly variety is not the kind of imagination I would like readers to use. What a crime!