Unoffending

SPEAKER, called unoffending Prince ARTHUR the "youthful STRAFFORD." ❋ Various (N/A)

Cruelty to the unoffending, that is what I mean by atrocities. " ❋ Arthur Gleason (1900)

The Ancient Mariner would shake his head sadly; and Daughtry, who likewise was hurt by the infliction of hurt on unoffending animals, would sympathize with him and fetch him unbidden another of the expensive three-for-a-dollar cigars so that his feelings might be soothed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She told him that he was no common bush-dog, but a blooded Irish gentleman, and that no dog that was a gentleman ever did such things as chase unoffending black men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The perpetrators were citizens living near the middle block-house, whose wives and children had been killed a few days before by the hostiles, but who well knew that these unoffending creatures had had nothing to do with those murders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is true the people at the Cascades had suffered much, and that their wives and children had been murdered before their eyes, but to wreak vengeance on Spencer's unoffending family, who had walked into their settlement under the protection of a friendly alliance, was an unparalleled outrage which nothing can justify or extenuate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But like so many nominees before her, Kagan essentially dodged -- although in a very polite and unoffending way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The stage driver encouraged them to make the unoffending animal “hump himself,” or take off running, and the brothers opened fire with their pistols. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

"Peaceable, unoffending colored men and boys were beaten up and murdered by brutes who boast of our white civilization." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile, amends must be made to the unoffending houseguest, and there was no one left but him to make them. ❋ Thomas Berger (2008)

Parenti holds President Reagan responsible for the invasion of Grenada, “an unoffending, small country that was trying to develop a communitarian way, and overthrew its government” and had some of its leaders killed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'How should I rejoice,' cried Camilla, 'to rescue this one poor unoffending and oppressed little animal from such tyranny!' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Heaven bless and preserve them; their unoffending daughters; and my ever loved uncle! ❋ Unknown (2008)

- Public Good “Other revolutions may have originated in caprice, or generated in ambition; but here, the most unoffending humility was tortured into rage, and the infancy of existence made to weep.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Burgundy, like a knight and a sovereign, had cordially and nobly entered into the plan of the faithful Oxford, I could have found it in my heart to obtain the cession of territory his cold and ambitious policy requires, in order to ensure the assistance, which he now postpones to afford till he has gratified his own haughty humor by settling needless quarrels with his unoffending neighbors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

F. ‘s Aunt produced a depressing effect on the little assembly; firstly, because it was impossible to disguise that Clennam’s unoffending head was the particular temple of reason depreciated; and secondly, because nobody ever knew on these occasions whose Uncle George was referred to, or what spectral presence might be invoked under that appellation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mr Meagles was very red in the face — redder than travel could have made him — and collaring a short man who was with him, said, ‘come out, you rascal, come Out!’ it was such an unexpected hearing, and it was also such an unexpected sight to see Mr Meagles burst the swing doors open, and emerge into the street with the short man, who was of an unoffending appearance, that ❋ Unknown (2007)

Why, I ask, is my unoffending infant so hedged into a basket-bedstead, with dimity and calico, with miniature sheets and blankets, that I can only hear him snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing-machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose? ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this, I SAW Mrs. Prodgit tightly roll the body of my unoffending infant, turning him over and over, now presenting his unconscious face upwards, now the back of his bald head, until the unnatural feat was accomplished, and the bandage secured by a pin, which I have every reason to believe entered the body of my only child. ❋ Unknown (2007)