Yet, there was nothing in the correspondence, save the fact of it, to offend even a most austere maiden aunt of the day.

[Fr.]; pierce the ears, split the ears, split the head; offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the ear.

Nevertheless, because Sir Palamydes was so fierce and powerful a knight, she did not dare to offend him; wherefore she smiled upon him and treated him with all courtesy and kindness although she loved him not, dissembling her regard for him.

Others offend in overmuch fasting: pining adays, saith Guianerius, and waking anights, as many Moors and Turks in these our times do.

5, when as he saith, "they more offend in too sparing diet, and are worse damnified, than they that feed liberally, and are ready to surfeit.

Baths dry too much, if used in excess, be they natural or artificial, and offend extreme hot, or cold; one dries, the other refrigerates overmuch.

41, most true, "The spirit is willing, the flesh is weak," we cannot resist; and this of Philo Judeus, "Perturbations often offend the body, and are most frequent causes of melancholy, turning it out of the hinges of his health."

One man's pissing provoke a second many times to do the like? Why doth scraping of trenchers offend a third, or hacking of files?

For commonly they that, like Sisyphus, roll this restless stone of ambition, are in a perpetual agony, still perplexed, semper taciti, tritesque recedunt (Lucretius), doubtful, timorous, suspicious, loath to offend in word or deed, still cogging and colloguing, embracing, capping, cringing, applauding, flattering, fleering, visiting, waiting at men's doors, with all affability, counterfeit honesty and humility.

But if he offend his good patron, or displease his lady mistress in the mean time, [2008] "Ducetur Planta velut ictus ab Hercule Cacus, Poneturque foras, si quid tentaverit unquam Hiscere" as Hercules did by Cacus, he shall be dragged forth of doors by the heels, away with him.

Our academics too frequently offend in neglecting patrons, as [2067]Erasmus well taxeth, or making ill choice of them; negligimus oblatos aut amplectimur parum aptos, or if we get a good one, non studemus mutuis officiis favorem ejus alere, we do not ply and follow him as we should.

So some offend in one extreme, but too many on the other, we are most part too forward, too solicitous, too ambitious, too impudent; we commonly complain deesse Maecenates, of want of encouragement, want of means, when as the true defect is in our own want of worth, our insufficiency: did Maecenas take notice of Horace or Virgil till they had shown themselves first?

So we offend, but the main fault is in their harshness, defect of patrons.

Parents and such as have the tuition and oversight of children, offend many times in that they are too stern, always threatening, chiding, brawling, whipping, or striking; by means of which their poor children are so disheartened and cowed, that they never after have any courage, a merry hour in their lives, or take pleasure in anything.

"Set not thy foot to make the blind to fall; Nor wilfully offend thy weaker brother: Nor wound the dead with thy tongue's bitter gall, Neither rejoice thou in the fall of other.

I shall not press the question of ambition and courtly flattery, lest they may be chagrined about luxury, base examples of life, which offend the honest, wanton drinking parties, &

Avarice is an uniform and tractable vice: other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind; that which sooths the pride of one, will offend the pride of another; but to the favour of the covetous, there is a ready way: bring money, and nothing is denied.

"I suppose he discovered in me, through the obscurity of the room, some tokens of amazement and doubt, for, after a short pause, he proceeded thus: "'Not to be easily credited will neither surprise nor offend me; for I am, probably, the first of human beings to whom this trust has been imparted.

To sauce, in general, they are strangers: now and then butter is melted, but I dare not always take, lest I should offend by disliking it.

What harm could I do you?how could I offend or hurt you?

In one case they [Footnote: Reading [Greek: emellon] (Dindorf, Boissevain).] were sure to offend his feelings and in the other to let their lack of genuineness appear.

Electricity not only carries our messages, it lights our houses; it turns many a wheel of machinery; it serves us beneficiently just as long as we obey the laws of electricity; but when we offend against these laws, it thwarts us or very likely destroys us.

"And what be you thinking of, sir, to expect me to offend all my best patients?

Besides, to offend one jowder was to offend all.

Besides, to offend one jowder was to offend all.