Such an offence against law and order cannot be allowed to pass unpunished.

Yes, Sir, you have offended me, and Nature has offended me; you are his Brother, and that's an Offence to me.

He has little excuse to offer for the mistakes he has made, or the various offences of which he has been guilty.

"Now that you are a prefect, I wouldn't give up all the privileges and the right to go out and come in when you like just because a strait-laced chap like Allingford chooses to take offence at something you do.

It is certain that an audience which found no offence in Rochester's Valentinian could ill have taken umbrage at the freedoms of The Lucky Chance.

I gradually overcame the prejudices of the students, and gained their good will, while he was always giving offence by his meddlesome disposition and overbearing manners: yet his talents and force of character always procured him a few followers, whom he managed as he pleased.

But aside from the pertness of the answer, already it was dimly recognised as an offence for one to stay up longer than the other.

" I thought that this speech afforded me an opportunity of repairing my offence with the least possible loss of dignity.

Now I and others, who, if captured in 1865, might probably have been hanged, are neither molested nor even suspected of any other offence than that of fighting, as our opponents fought, for the State to which our allegiance was due.

Two days before he died, it was discovered that a Bengallee servant of low caste, who had taken offence on some trivial occasion, had placed the stolen goods in the sepoy's bundle, and then urged the owner to accuse him of the theft.

Such, my lords, are the effects of distilled liquors; effects of which I would not have shocked you with the enumeration, had it not been with a design of preventing them; and surely no man will be charged with so trivial an offence as negligence of delicacy, when he is pleading, not for the honour or the life of a single man, but for the peace of the present age, the health of posterity, and the existence of the British people.

Moreover, to prevent the sale or letting of any particular house by asserting it to be haunted would be an offence under the libel laws.

Even the Claimant himself not only gave me no offence from first to last, but was at times in his manner very amusing, and preserved his natural good temper admirably, considering what he had at stake on the issue of the trial, and remembering also that that issue devolved mainly upon my own personal exertions.

"[Greek], "Avaunt, Satan, thou art an offence unto Me; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that are of men.

The French press has undoubtedly committed many offences during the last few years, and is not altogether irresponsible for the troubles which have overwhelmed the unhappy country; but reparation is being made for these offences in this present hour of danger, and the fearless attitude which it has maintained before these men of the Hôtel de Ville, atones nobly for the past.

Perhaps you gave some of them offence through neglect or thoughtlessness in dealing with them.

For small offences like these the penalty should always be the same in characterI mean not excessive imprisonment, and never penal servitude.

For of what use was the right of trial, if the parliament could set aside the ordinary courts of law at its pleasure, and inflict arbitrary punishment for any supposed offence without the usual forms of inquiry?

Should he not obey, or should he repeat the offence after the two years, he shall be drowned as incorrigible...." &c. One can easily understand that in order to carry out these laws the most careful measures were taken to organize a system of espionage.

Their Latin appelation was "fide digni" and they were chosen from among the parishioners to the number of two, four, six or more to present offences along with the churchwardens, or offences which the wardens would not present (Gibson, Codex, ii, 1000).

The priests, however, still managed to retain their jurisdiction over offences among themselves, as well as over marriage, the relation between the sexes, slander, usury, and willsof matters relating to the sacraments, and of sins.

DIVORCE: Absolute for adultery, impotence, imprisonment in penitentiary, conviction of an infamous offence before marriage, desertion for three years, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage or prostitution before without knowledge of husband, in favour of wife when husband was notoriously a licentious person before marriage without her knowledge.

Next time the form went up, Mr. Gordon said, in his most freezing tones, "Williams, at present I shall take no further notice of your offence beyond including you in the extra lesson every half-holiday.

These were offences outside forgiveness in the eyes of some few of his former associates.

Errors many, no doubt I had committed; but I was grateful, when reviewing the whole ground, for a conscience void of offence toward God and man; and I finally took my leave of all, craving the choicest blessings of Heaven to rest upon that infant colony and its interests.