Synonym Detection and Automatic Word Stemming....
Someone has come up with a way to figure out what synonyms Google has for a word: search for the word and synonyms minus the word.... and see also article on Automatic Word Stemming....

Fellow sinners continued...
from the Inaugural Address of Dr. Frank Wright (as the new president) to the National Religious Broadcasters (2003)
"Thank you Dr. Kennedy, Dr. Robertson, Dr. Bright, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Executive Committee, Members of the Board of Directors, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow Sinners: Have I left anyone out? I don’t think so."

Fellow sinners continued...
from Homosexuals & Christians by Jamey Bennet ... { When I heard his absolute indigination, I thought to myself, "It's no wonder homosexuals dislike Christians so intensely." Instead of treating them as fellow sinners no worse off than ourselves, we treat them as if WE are righteous and they are no-good pond scum.} ...more

Fellow sinners continued...
But to be forgiving of and tolerant toward fellow-sinners is a completely different attitude from being "soft" on sin and evil itself. Sin is our mutual enemy, the thief that robs life from us all. Sin deserves no mercy and dare not be tolerated. ...more

Phrase searches are cool... and word pairs are very cool...
I developing some definition pages that show word usage through the ages.
Maybe I'll be able to sort the word and phrase usage by date and author also....

see for instance... fellow sinners
John Muir arrived in California in 1868. Shortly after his first visit to the Sierra Nevada, he dedicated himself to preserving the natural beauty of his adopted homeland. He wrote in his diary that "John the Baptist was not more eager to get all of his fellow sinners into the Jordan River than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains." ... more

From the Confessions of St. Augustine -- Chapter VIII.—In His Theft He Loved the Company of His Fellow-Sinners...:
When he stole pears from a neighbors yard he says... "my enjoyment was not in those pears, it was in the crime itself, which the company of my fellow-sinners produced." ...more

From Charles Dickens book with the title of George Silverman's Explanation - chapter six.
'Well, my friends and fellow-sinners, now I told you when I began, that I didn't know a word of what I was going to say to you (and no, I did not!), but that it was all one to me, because I knew the Lord would put into my mouth the words I wanted.' ...more

From Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Discources on the Joys or Sorrows of Departed Souls
Shall these creatures, who seem to stand in a sort of indifferent character, who are outwardly blameless, with regard to common morality, and have exercised the common virtues of justice and benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, perhaps under the influences of education or custom, or perhaps by the effect that reason, or philosophy, or their inward fears have had towards the restraint of their passions and appetites; I say, shall such sort of creatures as these be filled with those furies of rage and resentment against God, envy and malice towards their fellow-sinners, and all the vile and unsociable passions in these regions of misery, which they have never found working in them here on earth, or but in a low degree? ...more