It is the violation of a divine institution in innocency, by the indulgence of one of the basest lusts of man in his degeneracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Every coin has two sides, and I think the presumption of innocency is one of the building stones of justice in a democratic land.    From Wordnik.com.  [AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder. « The Paradigm Shift] Reference

We must now enter by the door of faith (Acts xiv. 27), since the door of innocency is shut against us, and that pass become unpassable, Gen. iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Some make it an allusion to the opening of Adam's side in innocency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

About 600 claims were heard, and in the great majority of cases the claimants proved "innocency".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

They talk with that straightforward and simple kind of innocency which makes strange and impressive the dialogue of.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference

It will be thought I was not very well pleased with all this, though I could scarce forbear smiling at a kind of innocency in these old intriguers.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference

My innocency is my defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malice] Reference

He was one of great stature and innocency of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference

Daniel, in his innocency, was delivered out of the mouth of the lions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

"Which one do you think it is, Sire?" the colonel asked with mock innocency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unnecessary Man] Reference

The men were overawed by the sweet innocency and intrepid spirit of the youthful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

His innocency was soon made clear by the criminal making a public confession of guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

It is innocency or righteousness, and full of shining brightness, of an unspeakable joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Reference

That is, he was good and like an innocent child, and for two years continued in that innocency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

Kames, besides his literary talents, and his public spirit, was a remarkable innocency of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

And thou didst look into it with as much innocency and simple good-will as ever child looked into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893] Reference

Thou, O Mansoul, wast once famous for innocency, but now thou art degenerated into lies and deceit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy War] Reference

Duty and innocency will give peace to a worthy soul in the midst of all storms, and whatever may befall it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity] Reference

There is an innocency in his very coarseness, and a brisk, bright good-nature chirps in his very scurrility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Was it good also that thou madest a prey of the innocency and simplicity of the now miserable town of Mansoul?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy War] Reference

OLD MORALITY, with positively a halo of innocency round his head, suddenly appeared at table; read out the list of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891] Reference

There men, women and children, perform their ablutions together, with all the apparent innocency of our first parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs] Reference

Board of Kansas has advised executive clemency to fifteen criminals who received their pardons on the grounds of innocency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference

Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference