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Sentences ending with offence

No mere ferule will answer for this offence. [5]
My uncle's manner to me was now of studied kindness, and he was at greater pains than before to give me no excuse for offence. [9]
Calling on Him to forgive our work, badly done or left undone, implies the vain supposition that we have nothing to do but to ask pardon, and that afterwards we shall be free to repeat the offence. [5]
True, the fact that in doing so he had only followed his master, would mitigate the offence. [10]
A greater man than I has warned you" And with that I rose, believing that I had given them all mortal offence. [9]
When the others still wished to punish me, he besought my release because it was my first offence. [10]
On the other ships there have been terrible cruelty and offence. [11]
Queen Mary had ordered that it should be omitted, because Dr. Mathys had pronounced it poison for the gouty patient, and she confessed the offence. [10]
What he said on the topic leaned perhaps to the King's side, tho' he was careful to say nothing that would give me offence. [9]
In the course of my checkered career I have, on divers occasions, been charged--er--maliciously with a more or less serious offence. [5]

Short sentences using offence

No offence, noble sirs! [10]
No offence, Mr. Ritchie. [9]
I meant no offence, senator! [10]
An unprecedented offence! [10]
No offence! [10]

More example sentences with the word offence in them

I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
No offence to you, Colonel Woodburn," said Dryfoos, turning to him before he drank. [8]
The Reverend Doctor was very far from taking offence at the old physician's freedom of speech. [6]
The Hetaira Phryne was summoned before the judges for an offence against religion. [10]
A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
The sewer water was not an offence to them, the corpse did not revolt them; the sacred water had touched both, and both were now snow-pure, and could defile no one. [5]
No offence, Frau Van der Werft; but the Junker will escort you home as safely as I--and you, Herr von Dornburg--" "I am at your service," replied Georg, and went out into the street with the young wife. [10]
But we are used to the outbursts, and extravagances, and oddities of Number Seven, and do not take offence at his rough speeches as we should if any other of the company uttered them. [6]
This request confers upon me a certain right to express my opinion on this weighty subject without fear and without reproach even from those who might be ready to take offence at one of the laity for meddling with pulpit questions. [6]
To betray his unseemly conduct to the Emperor or to the confessor would have brought upon him too severe a punishment for an offence which, after all, was the most profound homage. [10]
She loved her too sincerely and respected her intelligence too much to take offence at her advice, but she could not give up her humane and sisterly intentions merely from the fear of some awkward consequences to herself. [6]
If he returned to the city of weavers, he would earnestly endeavour to palliate the offence which he had inflicted on Ledscha, and, if possible, obtain her forgiveness. [10]
It grieves me to tell you, sir, that young as you are you have been guilty of treason against the King, and of grave offence against his Lordship's government. [9]
He seemed unable to rise again from his chair; but when she asked him if he were unwell, he said no, with an air of offence, and got quickly to his feet. [8]
With no offence to others, I believe her advice will be the best. [10]
It was disloyal to her, an offence against all that she was, an affront to his manhood to let the thought have place in his mind even for one swift moment. [11]
Unfortunately, he was to atone only too speedily for this offence against medical advice, for his heated blood increased the twinges of the gout to such a degree that he was compelled to relinquish his desire to listen to the exquisite singing longer. [10]
Only a short time ago she had frankly thrown her arms around his neck if she wanted him to gratify a wish or forgive an offence without ever receiving a response to her affection. [10]
I'll tell you, though, if you want to know it, what is the real offence of Boston. [6]
Our adversaries think they can gain a point if they could force me to openly deny the charge, by which some degree of offence would be given to the Americans. [7]
Althea had asked the sculptor whether he still regretted having been detained by her before midnight, and he had confessed that his remaining at the banquet had been connected with a great sacrifice--nay, with an offence which weighed heavily on his mind. [10]
I should share the offence of the painter if I ventured to describe it. [6]
In compensation for the loss of the lower tusks as weapons of offence, those in the upper jaw, which always project a little laterally, increase in old age so much in length and curve so much upwards that they can be used for attack. [1]
But Eva knew the little woman, and wished to learn what offence had been given modest, humble Widow Vorkler. [10]
It seemed that the equality must be ungenuine where the sign-names of castes were still in vogue; but those sign-names have certainly lost their offence and are wholly neutralized, nullified and harmless if they are the undisputed property of every individual in the nation. [5]
It was decided that the offence was only legally improper, and it was natural that Carnac expressed himself strongly. [11]
But Granvelle's message that she was one cf those who stood nearest to the abdicating sovereign constantly echoed in her ears, and her absence from this ceremony would have seemed to her unnatural--nay, an offence against something necessary. [10]
I will admit that once, when a compositor in the Ledger establishment, I did set up some of that poetry, but for a worse offence than that no indictment can be found against me. [5]
I hope, too, that I may without offence suggest the causes which have often led them out of their own province into one to which their education has no special reference. [6]
Now it seems that I have given you offence in some way. [9]
She had been talked to about her corrupt nature and her sinful heart, until the words had become an offence and an insult. [6]
I began by taking offence at the moon. [6]
In Brandenburg, verily, such frays were common at the drinking-bouts of the lords and gentlemen, and by dawn all offence given over-night in their cups was wiped out of mind. [10]
I mean no sort of offence when I say it, sir, but you really do not know anything whatever about speed. [5]
As she did so the words that he had written met her eye: "'But offences must come, and woe to him from whom the offence cometh! [11]
That her deserter should greet her so after five years of such offence to a woman's self-respect, as might entitle her to become a rebel against matrimony, was too cruel to be borne. [11]
The only safe shelter I can offer you is the prison down there; the room where they lock up the subaltern officers when they have committed any offence is quite unoccupied, and I will conduct you thither. [10]
Directly after, however, she opened it again, and with a pleasant, "No offence, father," wished the old gentleman a no less pleasant goodnight. [10]
There is no second offence, and there is no gate open to that lost sheep, ever again. [5]
But we may say of it, without offence, that it occupies a charming situation, and may have an interesting future; and that a person on a short acquaintance can leave it without regret. [4]
Temptation bids us repeat the offence, and woe comes in return for what is done. [5]
And the picture remained an offence to her as long as she lived. [9]
There is even reason to suspect that the branching horns of stags, and the elegant horns of certain antelopes, though properly serving as weapons of offence or defence, have been partly modified for ornament. [1]
He now begin reading again: --I want it to be understood that I consider that a certain number of persons are at liberty to dislike me peremptorily, without showing cause, and that they give no offence whatever in so doing. [6]
It has the rare fire of aggression; is ever more upon the offence than upon the defence; has, withal, the false lure of freedom from restraint, the throbbing force of sympathy. [11]
But quick,--to the Question, How was the Little Giant, artful in debate as he was, to get over that without offence to the great South? [9]
But when, so painfully surprised that her eyes filled with tears, she confessed that her selection perhaps had not been very appropriate, and sadly added the inquiry why her beloved sovereign condemned a trivial offence so harshly, he wrathfully exclaimed, "For more than one reason. [10]
All was spread out, and then he made a speech, describing his virtues, and condoning his one offence of age by assuring her that every tooth in his head was sound. [11]
I have left out a few things which he said, feeling that they might give offence to some of the company. [6]
A large baboon, or ape,--some creature of that family,--was sitting at the open door of his cage, when I gave him offence by approaching too near and inspecting him too narrowly. [6]
If it would only send away its first-rate men, instead of its second-rate ones, (no offence to the well-known exceptions, of which we are always proud,) we should be spared such epigrammatic remarks as that which the gentleman has quoted. [6]
But supposing any one do take offence at first sight, let him look over these notes again, and see whether he is quite sure he does not agree with most of these things that were said amongst us. [6]
I hate you--for once I will ease my poor, tormented heart--I loathe you; your very existence is an offence to me and brings misfortune on me and on all of us; and besides--besides, I should prefer to keep the emeralds we have left. [10]
He was there on his trial, and for discipline; and it was thought by all that, as many days had passed since his offence was committed, meditation and prayer should have done their work. [11]
I take no offence, and attempt no retort. [3]
It will give offence to the whole Whig party here, and be worse than a dead loss to the administration of so much of its patronage. [7]
No cause of offence is obvious, and yet there are many persons who cannot abide the presence of the most innocent little kitten. [6]
I know no offence is meant. [9]
She took no offence at his reference to nursery gossip, which she had learned to hold cheap. [6]
The fearless foe of the Turks was troubled by the recruiting officer's mysterious menaces, but his kind heart forbade him to add a new offence to the bitter mortification inflicted upon this man by his daughter. [10]
In these two-thirds of the booklet I find only one such offence, and it has the look of being a printer's error. [5]
If this stone of offence was removed it would again be possible to live in harmony with Charmian. [10]
This double offence of bad faith to me and slander upon a good man is so totally outrageous that I now ask to have King and Davis placed as I originally recommended,--that is, King for register and Davis for receiver. [7]
I had done nothing wrong, except to say that I was going to Komptendorf--and that offence concerned only Dr. Boltze, to whom I had made the false statement. [10]
But he did not seem to take offence. [9]
The former did not give up the cause as lost, though he did not spare reproaches, while his wife's wrath was directed against the informer rather than the offence committed by her favourite. [10]
But he could not forget that his boarder had betrayed him into a breach of the fourth commandment, and that the strict eyes of his clergyman had detected him in the very commission of the offence. [6]
In that case none would give him food or shelter or the hand of friendship; none dare show him any kindness; and it was the law that any one against whom he committed an offence, however small, might take his life. [11]
She would accept no aid at the cost of so severe an offence to her pride, least of all when it came from the man who had already wounded her soul often and painfully enough. [10]
But though Emerson never betrayed it to the offence of others, he must have been conscious, like Milton, of "a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness," which was as a shield about his inner nature. [6]
He is in my seigneury; he is a tenant of the Church here--" "It is a grave offence that an infidel, dropping down here from, who knows where--that an acknowledged infidel should be a tenant of the Church! [11]
It seems to me that it is not the anger of your wives you fear, so much as the commission of an offence against the customs of your country. [10]
Thou wouldst have me ruin a man who has been my friend, to whom I owe much gratitude, who has served me long and faithfully; and this without offence from his side. [10]
He had a marvellous way of cutting short an interview without giving offence. [9]
V. His wife made no attempt to renew their talk before March went to his business in the morning, and they parted in dry offence. [8]
It was not long after this that Mr. Garrick's punishment came, and for the self-same offence. [9]
His station in life had been his offence to Eliphalet, who strove now to hide an exultation that made him tremble. [9]
To give the jealous fates not the least chance to take offence, the higher life they were to lead began at once. [9]
Yet, in repudiating it, I gave dissatisfaction, if not offence, to many whose support the country cannot afford to lose. [7]
She hastily took it from his hand, saying: "No offence, Herr Wilhelm, but we'll discuss your motet to-morrow, or whenever you choose; to-day--" "To-day your time belongs to this letter," interrupted Wilhelm. [10]
So Barbara succeeded in taking leave of the duke without giving him offence. [10]
A careless expression in one of her letters, that "ye Parson was as lyke to bee in league with ye Divell as anie of em," had got abroad, and given great offence to godly people. [6]
And you have, in my opinion, committed an offence against society. [9]
His kind heart impelled him to show his chosen companion his friendly remembrance of him, and thereby atone for the offence which had been inflicted upon him in his house. [10]
I am sure I meant him no offence, but told him in as many words, that my daughter had refused him. [9]
Don't be offended; I mean no offence. [5]
In after years I abhorred it, not only because my mother would rather have permitted any other offence to pass unpunished, but because I had an opportunity of perceiving its ugliness very early in life. [10]
The thing had hit her where soul and body were closely knit; and she had realized for the first time how we all must pay to the last penny for every offence we commit against the laws of life and nature. [11]
He has seen his chief aids in his own State, Shields and Richardson, politically speaking, successively tried, convicted, and executed for an offence not their own but his. [7]
Besides, experience taught him that an offence would be more easily pardoned the more his master himself disliked the person against whom it was committed. [10]
But no offence, Herr Wolff Eysvogel; you'll make the queer fellow's acquaintance if, like myself, it would be agreeable to you to meet often, not only on iron chains, but on friendly terms with each other. [10]
Yet, now that her fair name was dragged through the mire, she could scarcely be angry with those who pointed the finger of scorn at her; for faithlessness to a betrothed lover was an offence as great as infidelity to a husband. [10]
But at dinner he had plainly forgot any offence, and I had more cause than ever to be puzzled over his odd mixture of confidence and aloofness. [9]
Three years afterwards he gave new offence to Laud by publishing a pamphlet against the hierarchy. [5]
You would not have expected a base betrayal from one whom you had befriended and against whom you had committed no offence. [5]
It would not have been worth while to take offence at his plain speech, if he had been so disposed; for he might wish to consult him the next day as to "what he should take" for his dyspepsia or his neuralgia. [6]
I ought to have been ashamed, perhaps, but I had, not the slightest idea who Melusina was until I hunted up the story, and found that she was a fairy, who for some offence was changed every Saturday to a serpent from her waist downward. [6]
They are bitter hard to bear because there is nothing tangible to take hold of; and the insulter can always say, if called before the railway officials, that he never dreamed of intending any offence. [5]
The offence she had just committed was no trivial one. [10]
Yes, Mungo Maxwell had been cat-o'-ninetailed within an inch of his life; and that was the truth; for a trifling offence, too; and cruelly discharged at some outlandish port because, forsooth, he would not accept the gospel of the divinity of Captain Paul. [9]

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