826 examples of offense in sentences

The mate stood it pretty well, but there comes a time when further talk is useless even in regard to a most heinous offense.

Plain and intelligible, but | | without offense to the most fastidious taste, the style of | | this book must commend it to careful perusal.

" "And yet you nursed the old man and were kind to him, I believe, after the offense.

Plain and intelligible, but | | without offense to the most fastidious taste, the style of | | this book must commend it to careful perusal.

It is an offense to mention them so.

"He may have fallen beneath the assassin's knife by giving quite a small and possibly innocent offense to somebody.

For one offense Swift was severely censured and compelled upon his knees to beg pardon of the dean.

But, for all my rank and celebrity, I am still obliged to be silent as to the opinion of others, that I may not give offense.

But, as it is, he must always keep on a certain level; must remember that his works will fall into the hands of a mixed society; and must, therefore, take care lest by over-great openness he may give offense to the majority of good men.

"No doubt you were technically in the wrong, but it was a slight offense, and, after all, you got your man.

In 1821 Peter, charged with murdering a slave, was convicted of manslaughter and ordered to be branded with M on the right cheek and to be given the customary three times thirty-nine lashes; and Edmund, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was dismissed on the ground that the court had no cognizance of such offense.

The maxim that no one may twice be put in jeopardy for the same offense evidently did not apply to slaves in that colony.

Mistaken acquittals by these courts were beyond correction, for in the South slaves like freemen could not be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense.

In this state the doctor gave him a paternal lesson on the consequences to his future life of the rebellion against necessary discipline and of persistent disorderly conduct, but without any actual reproof or mention of his offense, and all in his invariably kindly tone as if it were a talk on generalities, and then dismissed him to think it over.

The latter was a rare offense and never pardoned.

I did not then understand that all knowledge is relative, and that, au fond, his offense was the same as mine, that of thinking he had arrived at finality in the discovery of truth.

I am of opinion that he judged her correctly, for she must have been a tiger when her passions were aroused, capable of anything, and I was careful never to give her more serious cause of offense than the doing of my official duty.

That their liberty under the Gospel, then, might not be made occasion of offense by gainsayers, against the cause of Christ, that their good should not be evil spoken of by the profane multitude, the apostle counseled them to submit to the usages and restraints which the customs of the times and place imposed on women, wherever the usages or restraints so imposed were not in themselves sinful.

And the conviction that she never would know it made him admit her words with silent humility,the humility of the criminal who hears himself accused of an offense by a judge ignorant of a still greater offense.

And the conviction that she never would know it made him admit her words with silent humility,the humility of the criminal who hears himself accused of an offense by a judge ignorant of a still greater offense.

She resented it as an offense against herself.

Irwin Shaw (A); 2Feb68; R429092. Free conscience, void of offense.

And when all was said and doneand the thought galled Billy more than he could understandthe offense of the Pilgrim had been extremely intangible; it had consisted almost wholly of looks and a tone or two, and he realized quite plainly that his own dislike of the Pilgrim had probably colored his judgment.

Ef 'twould on'y put some folks in as well as turn some a-out!" When Charlton with his bride started in a sleigh the next morning to his new home on his property in the village of "Charlton" a crowd had gathered about the door, moved partly by that curiosity which always interests itself in newly-married people, and partly by an exciting rumor that Charlton was not guilty of the offense for which he had been imprisoned.

Doubtless the offense that he felt was the greater, owing to this additional wound to his amour-propre.

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