His peccant acts of stealing the company's supplies led to his termination and a possible suit. From LearnThat.org.
Why had Amanar brought the sword to this peccant chamber?. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
The peccant cat follows me into the kitchen meowing constantly. From Wordnik.com. [2009 April] Reference
One dash from a peccant oar would destroy the whole symmetry of my dress. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
Pauperes non peccant, quum extrema necessitate coacti rem alienam capiunt. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Such an institution would be a perpetual blister applied to the most peccant parts of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
The peccant gentleman may choose his horn, and no honest and capable reader cares one copper which he takes. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
That the peccant material is to be eliminated gradually by mild remedies, just as it accumulated by degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
And Lucy flung the peccant sheet that had roused all this wrath on to the back of the fireplace with offended dignity. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
For this reason I desired to divert the peccant matter downward, a point which the physician should consider and observe. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
But hereof we have given many examples in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
I ask pardon of Sydenham, who defined fever to be “an effort of nature, laboring with all its power to expel the peccant matter.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
GEORGE retorted that he would be perfectly ready to deal with any peccant official if the Labour Leader for his part would deal with the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920] Reference
This would surely be a more than apt title for Mr. ASQUITH, who has been doing yeoman work of this kind on behalf of his peccant colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
I say that we ought first to medicate the more dangerous lesion, and, possibly, two results may be obtained by the attraction of the peccant material. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Nothing could be conceived more excellent as a weapon against many of those peccant humours that we have been railing against in the jeremiad of our last. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
"Andalusia," her great disgust, to judge by the sharp things which she said to him, seemed as if it took in the innocent hand as well as the peccant head. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Mr. Tapster was seeing a vision of himself, magnanimous, forgiving -- taking the peccant Flossy back to his heart and becoming once more, in a material sense, comfortable!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
There only remained those unaccounted for weeks, so that the first sentence he spoke to the peccant pair, whom we left in agitated suspense, surprised them by its calmness. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
And herein is the Roman mortification grievously peccant; they drive all sorts of persons to it, without the least consideration whether they have a principle for it or no. From Wordnik.com. [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference
For Euripides is sometimes peccant, as he is most times perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
The two peccant riders unfortunately were Sir Griffin and Lucinda. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
Possibly this was the secret source of part of his anger against that peccant youth. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
The tattle of society did its best to place the peccant husband above the suffering wife. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
On which the peccant slave bases a hope of escaping observation, and too probable chastisement. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
Seven peccant Peers and the survivors of the Eleven peccant Commoners to return to their places. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
Here, however, comes me in a besom which sweeps all the old peccant institutions away at one whisk. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference
The book revealed its tale in a small pencilled computation of the bank-clerk's; on the peccant side. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
As a practical man, his objection lay against the poor fool's choice of the peccant borough of Bevisham. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
But the truth is, that this is the peccant part of Arminianism, and Tillotson is yet more open than Taylor. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
The best mode of encouraging the efflux of the peccant humor is for the patient to have a cigar in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference
Maisie looked at the peccant places; there were moments when it was a relief to her to drop her eyes even on anything so sordid. From Wordnik.com. [What Maisie Knew] Reference
I am come, by thy goodness, to the use of thine ordinary means for my body, to wash away those peccant humours that endangered it. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
These peccant volumes contain but four sketches: one of his father, written in 1832; the other three, of Edward Irving, Lord Jeffrey, and. From Wordnik.com. [Obiter Dicta] Reference
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