Transgressed

None of them paid any outward attention to their "sheets," although Alfred and Gracie spread theirs with elaborate care; they leaned their elbows on the table, they made loud, swooping sounds with their lips, and, in short, transgressed every law known to civilized life. ❋ 1841-1930 Pansy (1885)

The Rabbis determined that whoever now called Sarah by her former name transgressed a positive commandment (JT Berakhot 1: 6, 4 [a]). ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the votaries of the Bible interpreted it faithfully, they would say: man originally transgressed, that is, made a mistake; for to transgress, to fail, to make a mistake, all mean the same thing. ❋ Unknown (1890)

This purpose must not be "transgressed,"'i.e.' forgotten by those who wish to make exceptions to these laws. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

A blonde Manhattan nightclubber, Cori Rist, 31, was added last night to the list of those with whom the married father of two had 'transgressed'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Fortunately despite my auburn tresses, I can still blonde the police a little when I have to (It don't work with ladyLEO's, the more power to 'em), but I can't recall a time in recent years when I've needed to do so (I'm just too good, and haven't transgressed in a long while). ❋ Unknown (2010)

They will be urged in the strongest possible way to prosecute you to the fullest extent of any/all federal, state, and local laws which your idiotic charade has transgressed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the man has transgressed the laws of the land or specific rules/restrictions where he resides, then it is up to the local law enforcement officials there to ensure that he is taken to task for those transgressions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eventually, they made it top side again, and by the time they got back into the airlock, they had transgressed their nine-hour time limit by another three. ❋ J. E. Cammon (2011)

In an effort to meet that desire—and no doubt flattered by the attention—chefs began to spend more time in the dining room talking with customers and transgressed the ancient frontier that is the swinging door by inviting favored diners into the kitchen. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

I have been so much employed by Mr. Weston during the last week in making extracts from letters and writing out copy for the press, that I fear I have transgressed the rules of strict propriety in having omitted to reply to your kind letter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We also believe the UK – bilaterally and as part of the EU – has an important role to demonstrate to Israel that the threshold of acceptable behaviour has been perilously transgressed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sure enough, there was Moody's dictum: our viewers need to be reminded that this wasn't the first time Lott had so transgressed. ❋ Charlie Reina (2011)

This was possible because the fundamental aspects of radical and separatist feminisms meant that people who transgressed gender binaries [...] did not fit within a gender binaried worldview. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While that database does include the names of many men who are factual heroes, and a few who have transgressed the laws of our land, it does not contain the name ❋ Unknown (2010)

Miéville takes this setting and explores it through the eyes of police detective Tyador Borlú, investigating a murder which appears to have transgressed the boundaries between Besźel and Ul Qoma. ❋ Nwhyte (2010)