An unoffending motorist should not have been stopped. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
SPEAKER, called unoffending Prince ARTHUR the "youthful STRAFFORD.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference
Cruelty to the unoffending, that is what I mean by atrocities. ". From Wordnik.com. [Young Hilda at the Wars] Reference
Still he indignantly protested he was an unoffending traveller. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The door closed, I turned upon my unoffending associate rather angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Grace sat poking holes in an unoffending sheet of paper with her lead pencil. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
They seized and carried away into slavery some of the unoffending natives, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
With this succinct advice Jean made a fresh onslaught on the unoffending wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
It may follow down the family line, and fasten itself upon the unoffending children. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
When the unoffending innocent, desirous of seeing and speaking to its parent, applied to. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Other men will prey on unoffending Africa, and bear human sinews across the ocean to be sold. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The goblin-like advertisements that spit soap and other things at unoffending eyes at night in Trafalgar. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
On one occasion when the interpreter was not present, some unoffending person asked the Hun a question in English. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
"Now I guess we're even for all the insults you've heaped upon my unoffending head in days gone by, Jet," Phil gibed. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Those unoffending and unfortunate people were waylaid by three monsters in human shape, ruffians belonging to the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Mr. Luttrell, with his cane, takes the heads off two unoffending crocuses that, most unwisely, have started up within his reach. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
"This'll have to be explained to mother," he remarked discontentedly as he shoved the unoffending trunk into the back of the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
He is no better fed during the period of fine or imprisonment, and the wrath of the parent is often visited upon his unoffending head. From Wordnik.com. [The Children: Some Educational Problems] Reference
We, most innocent and unoffending -- we, who abhor interference in all matrimonial affairs -- we, without design or intent, made a match. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
To hear a discussion on our poor unoffending and former comrades is to have a sad exhibition of envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Many times we know that we are to blame for the poor work of the student and, knowing it, will not visit the penalty upon the unoffending head. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
His plea was that poor little unoffending Germany was only standing up for herself against a set of blood-thirsty enemies who wished to crush her. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
Democratic majority wantonly invaded the country of an unoffending neighbouring people, to seduce them from their lawful allegiance and annex their territory. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
In other words, we must educate her into a reserve, into the gentle, unoffending dignity which holds all but the nearest and dearest at a little distance from herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
He is still puffing away in a somewhat indignant fashion at the unoffending cigar, looking taller, more unbending in his evening clothes, helped by the dignity of his wrongs. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
We can maintain our neutrality only by refusal to do anything to aid unoffending weak powers which are dragged into the gulf of bloodshed and misery through no fault of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
In the paroxysm of their indignation the witan punished the unoffending wives of their future monarchs by abolishing, with the title of queen, all the appendages of female royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
An infamous outrage on the unoffending and oppressed race of the Jews closed the coronation day in London, and was followed by equally cruel treatment of them in several large towns. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
The younger of the two guards went straight up to an unoffending medical student, a Lieutenant Downes (S. S.affs.), who was then turning round, and pricked him in the stomach with his bayonet. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
The wit which had been sharpened by laying "plots" and "inductions dangerous" against unoffending hens and chickens, was turned to the invention of a gun-lock better adapted to their purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The first part of their programme was successfully carried out; but the second was frustrated by the Doctor promptly firing his revolver into the dark, and hitting an unoffending boy in the hip. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
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