His manner plainly shows that he is offended at the quantity the old man has managed to swallow already.

"Edith," he went on as he took her unresisting hand, "you must not be offended with me.

You are not responsible for what you say or do, provided always that you do not offend against the abstract rules of decency, or the requirements of natural decorum.

"Not old!"Lady Mary felt a little offended in spite of herself.

And truly I have now the comfort of thinking that if I have offended by encouraging Abdallah's deceits, or otherwise, the debt is paid, and Eternal Justice hath now nothing against me; for verily I was an inmate of Gehenna until it came to pass that she was herself translated thither.

No good person can be justly offended as a spectator, because no good person suffers on the stage.

"As too much and violent exercise offends on the one side, so doth an idle life on the other" (saith Crato), "it fills the body full of phlegm, gross humours, and all manner of obstructions, rheums, catarrhs," &c. Rhasis, cont.

On the 12th, lord BARRINGTON presented a petition from the printer of the daily paper, expressing his sorrow, promising all possible care not to offend for the future, and praying to be discharged.

ah, then hee's bitter and like His name Acute, vice to him is a foule eye-sore And could he stifle it in bitterest words he would, And who so offends to him is paralell; He will as soon reproove the Caedar state As the lowe shrub.

After leaving the dwelling, the manners of her guide sensibly altered; he became complimentary and assiduous to please, but in a way rather to offend than conciliate; until his attentions became so irksome, that Julia actually meditated stopping at some of the villages through which they passed, and abandoning the attempt of visiting England entirely.

The sacred writers (he observed) related the vicious as well as the virtuous actions of men; which had this moral effect, that it kept mankind from despair, into which otherwise they would naturally fall, were they not supported by the recollection that others had offended like themselves, and by penitence and amendment of life had been restored to the favour of Heaven.

Then, again, he tells our Lord, "Though all men shall be offended of Thee, yet will I never be offended.

Do not be mightily offended about that; if you are, you are no child of God; for the child of God acknowledges that he has no right to the least of God's mercies, but that they come through the channel of grace alone.

Have you any idea who wrote it?' 'Probably some underling in the Nickel Trust whom Van Torp has offended without knowing it, or who has lost money by him.

His verse sometimes offends from disregarding moral proprieties and from so expressing his atheism as to wound the feelings of religious people.

"No," he said, hurt and offended into a sincerity of manner which compelled them to respect him for the first time, "I will not stay; and I am very sorry I came."

Thou art worse than a pagan, infidel, Jew, or Turk, for thou art an apostate and more, thou hast voluntarily blasphemed, renounced God and all religion, thou art worse than Judas himself, or they that crucified Christ: for they did offend out of ignorance, but thou hast thought in thine heart there is no God.