"Offence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she, when she discovers that her husband is a fool (and that he is when he offers to condone her offence because it has not leaked out) decides to leave her children 'not considering herself worthy of bringing them up,' is a not very clever trick of coquetry. If they have both been fools (and surely they don't teach at the seminary that it is right to forge bills) they should pull well together ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... I'll get the lieutenant. This is a court-martial offence. Here, Morton and Morrison, you're ...
— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos
... was not the first time that Cecilia had been bolted into her room by her step-brother. When first she came, it had been a favourite pastime to make her a prisoner—until their mother had made it an offence carrying a heavy penalty, since it had often occurred that Cecilia was locked up when ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... use of candles on this festival continued long after the Reformation. In 1628 the Bishop of Durham gave serious offence by sticking up wax candles in his cathedral at the Purification; "the number of all the candles burnt that evening was two hundred and twenty, besides sixteen torches; sixty of |354| those burning tapers and torches standing ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... He knew that after the eyes this was the most vulnerable part of his antagonist, and if he had been allowed but a few minutes' time, he would soon have disabled the crocodile; for to have seriously wounded the root of his tail, would have been to have destroyed his essential weapon of offence. ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
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