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Sentences ending with offend

Trixton Brent was not a man to offend. [9]
The "Right Worshipful" functionary whose equipage stops at my back gate, and whose services are indispensable to the health and comfort of my household, is a dignitary whom I must not offend. [6]
And her yoke does not fret, does not offend. [5]

Short sentences using offend

I would not offend you. [9]

Sentences containing offend two or more times

He would not want to offend Satan; he would rather offend all his kin. [5]

More example sentences with the word offend in them

No candid criticism would offend him. [7]
What if their wives are fond, after the decease of their husbands, to bestow themselves not so advisedly as their calling requireth; do not duchesses, countesses, and knights' wives offend in the like fully so often as they? [4]
I repeat that we shall not wantonly offend any star; but at the same time we shall promptly resent any injury that may be done us, or any insolence offered us, by parties or governments residing in any star in the firmament. [5]
It cannot offend us, who have no right at all to be his match on his own ground. [6]
All who know us are aware that although we are at times justly severe upon tigers and martyrs, we never intentionally offend gladiators. [5]
I don't want to say anything to offend you, Mr. Hodder--" "You couldn't," interrupted the rector. [9]
She realised that to offend the Queen at this moment might ruin all; and Elizabeth herself was little like to offer chance for farewell and love- tokens. [11]
I have had to offend her rather often. [9]
I was willing to make almost any sacrifice rather than offend him, but this I could not allow. [9]
He turned at the threshold, and said to Miles, "You'll find it to your advantage to offend not with useless endeavours at escape. [5]
She hoped that the Pharoah would refuse, and personally offend the Regent, and so make him more inclined to tread the dangerous road which she was endeavoring to smooth for him. [10]
It is not the men whose duties have made them familiar with this class of subjects who are most likely to offend by scenes and descriptions which belong to the physician's private library, and not to the shelves devoted to polite literature. [6]
To speak the strict truth, however, our party seldom offend in that way, though we have men in the ship who never lose an opportunity to do it. [5]
If my speaking should offend you, sir, my dealing, I hope, will make amends. [12]
One thing is settled: we mean not to offend each other,--to be perfectly courteous,--more than courteous; for we are the entertainer and the entertained, and cherish particularly amiable feelings, to each other. [6]
Therefore, for the sake of Spain, a higher justice compels me to offend the secular one. [10]
She was a pretty creature, and she and her willow bough made a very pretty picture, and one which could not offend the modesty of the most fastidious spectator. [5]
They are not only inappropriate and inconvenient to your eye, but they offend your taste. [4]
It did not offend him, however, for he was victor, and could enter the Breakneck Club or Dublin society with a tranquil eye. [11]
A considerable number of his business activities have their field in his social relations; and clothes which do not offend against local manners and customers and prejudices are a valuable part of his equipment in this matter--would be, if Franklin had died earlier. [5]
Madame bridled up now--with discretion, for it was not her cue to offend the Seigneur. [11]
So thou offend not again, here or in the ears of others, it shall be as though thou hadst not spoken. [5]
We shall in no case wantonly offend the people of any star, but shall treat all alike with urbanity and kindliness, never conducting ourselves toward an asteroid after a fashion which we could not venture to assume toward Jupiter or Saturn. [5]
The patriarch is my enemy, the enemy of our house, and you--I do not say it to offend you--you overheard what he was saying last night, and probably gathered much important information, some of which may concern me and my family. [10]
The borders of my drive were trimmed with scissors; and everything that could offend the Eye of the Great was hustled out of the way. [4]
It is the metier of some people of this world to tell the truth, letting it fall as it will, and offend where it will, to be in a little unjust maybe, measure wrongly here and there, lest the day pass and nothing be done. [11]
You might regard me with less hostility, for I will not offend you; nay, I will repay your evil words with good--perhaps the very best indeed that you ever heard in your life. [10]
This would offend Mary and her mother; and it would surprise the other ladies, partly because this stinginess toward the suffering Old People would be out of character with Brown, and partly because he was a special Providence and could not properly act so. [5]
In the report made to the Emperor, Don Luis suppressed everything which could offend him; but Charles remained immovable in his determination to withdraw the expected gift of Fate, from its first entrance into the world, from every influence except his own. [10]
It does not lie in a poor squire like me to offend the King's dignity. [11]
I do not know what Hiram had done to offend him; but on the strength of Katharina's evidence the judges condemned him to death. [10]
What a crime it was to offend such a Lord and repay His benefits with apostasy! [10]
Garrick," Carlisle puts in, very solemn, "what have you done to offend the Terrible Unknown? [9]
But at last, in the drift of time, Hadleyburg had the ill luck to offend a passing stranger--possibly without knowing it, certainly without caring, for Hadleyburg was sufficient unto itself, and cared not a rap for strangers or their opinions. [5]
She was so important to him, she could do so much for him, that he would surely take care not to insult or offend her. [10]
Believe me, sir, I would not willingly offend a guest. [9]
To these particulars I humbly intreat your pardons if I offend you with my rude answer. [4]
But this time her father wanted to forbid her taking part in the performance, and Wolf had not found it easy to make him understand that this would insult and offend his Majesty. [10]
If we are going to do a thing to please them, no use in doing it half-way, so as to offend them, by drawing social lines against them. [4]
She whom the Emperor Charles had honoured with his love would perhaps in the future learn to recognise his decision as wise, though it might offend her now. [10]
What I have done to offend him, I don't know, but this is a plot to ruin me. [12]
One has to dodge this sort of question in the South occasionally, not to offend a just local pride. [4]
Apparently any trifle can offend it, and but one penalty appease it--excommunication. [5]
All about the apartment the gaudy trappings of the Greek Church offend the eye and keep the mind on the rack to remember that this is the Place of the Crucifixion--Golgotha--the Mount of Calvary. [5]
If spectators offend again, the Sergeant-at-arms will clear the galleries! [5]
He held himself a little aloof (as a leader should) from the captains in the station, without seeming to offend them. [9]

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