There we have the explanation of his conduct, apart from the personal interest he had in the innocence of Madame de Montespan.
La Reynie was not satisfied with denying the innocence of Mademoiselle Desoeillets; he told Louvois: 'It is difficult for her to be left at liberty after such charges.
He applied to a celebrated advocate of the time, Maitre Duplessis, for a statement establishing the innocence of Madame de Montespan, and indicating means of quashing the unhappy proceedings.
In her innocence she had believed the voters to perform this function.
One of the unconscious causes of his fascination was just her emancipation from and innocence of that herd-convention to which most women--even those who lack wedding rings--are slaves.
There's a charm in you begotten of your very innocence and helplessness, and I should be very unhappy if we parted now.
I felt them not; the days of innocence were already past, and my heart was agitated with earthly passions.
They alleged, that his innocence had been attested by the unanimous bishops of Egypt, and had been acknowledged in the councils of Rome and Sardica, [126] by the impartial judgment of the Latin church.
By the industry and courage of his friends, the fraud was however detected, and in a great council of the civil and military officers, held in the presence of the emperor himself, the innocence of Sylvanus was publicly acknowledged.
I am pleased to reflect on the innocence of my private life; and I can affirm with confidence, that the supreme authority, that emanation of the Divine Power, has been preserved in my hands pure and immaculate.
The innocence of the first Christians was protected by ignorance and contempt; and the tribunal of the Pagan magistrate often proved their most assured refuge against the fury of the synagogue.
Their diet and exercises were carefully inspected by the Roman emperor; and when Innocence had earned her discharge, by a long course of meritorious service, the faithful animal was again restored to the freedom of her native woods.
Julian most devoutly ascribes his miraculous deliverance to the protection of the gods, who had exempted his innocence from the sentence of destruction pronounced by their justice against the impious house of Constantine.
The Roman, in the presence of his sovereign, asserted the innocence of Athanasius and his own freedom.
The grief of Julian could proceed only from his innocence; out his innocence must appear extremely doubtful [11] in the eyes of those who have learned to suspect the motives and the professions of princes.
After such a deed, whatever might have been the designs of Gallus, it was only in a field of battle that he could assert his innocence with any hope of success.
With the assistance of such guides, nothing could remain impervious or inaccessible; resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror.
The soul in its firstinnocence is naturally believing.
After holding my precious present in my hand awhile, I opened it, and, in the innocence of my heart, took a deliberate snuff.
The innocence of Anne of Austria is fully established.
Poor Eily O'Connor, in all her simple innocence and ignorance of the world, is a beautiful creation; and though travestied in three or four different forms on the stage, she still holds a lasting place in our affections.
Was it innocenceor artfulness, this assumption of childish prudery?
She is a fine figure and vastly handsome, notwithstanding a silly look sometimes about the month; she has a thousand airs, but with a sort of innocencethat diverts one!
He goes to her and comforts her, and tells, since it is by no design of either of them, their innocence will be their guardian angel.
Where is all that natural innocence of love that could not, even to discover and express a grace in eloquence, force one soft word, or one passion?
The two facts which most forcibly obtruded themselves on my attention during the trial were the inveterate violence of the President of the Court towards the prisoners and the innocence of Moreau.
Every time he came to the Tuileries, even before he had acquired any traces of the truth, Fouche always declared to me his conviction of the innocence of the persons first accused.
What is to be thought of the motives for Bonaparte's arrest and provisional liberation, when his innocence and the error that had been committed were acknowledged?
The good sense of the public discerned proofs of his innocence in the very circumstances brought forward against him.
Nothing has ever appeared to me more sickening than the pretty innocence some women (who have been highly favoured by nature) think it amiable to affect.
I hope no unprincipled traveller will ever take advantage of thy simplicity and love of finery, and persuade thee to exchange for toys of a similar description the precious jewels of innocence and good fame.
No eminent chief of a party has ever passed through many years of civil and religious dissension with more innocence than Richard Baxter.
Ridicule, instead of putting guilt and error to the blush, turned her formidable shafts against innocence and truth.
But that camp was not a place where female innocence could be safe.
They were almost always recited by favourite actresses; and nothing charmed the depraved audience so much as to hear lines grossly indecent repeated by a beautiful girl, who was supposed to have not yet lost her innocence [174].
Earth holds no fairer, lovelier than thou, Maid of the laughing lip and frolic eye; Innocence sits upon thy open brow Like a pure spirit in its native sky.
It was the cry of the primal man beneath all the culture of the schools that disprove Hell; the cry of human red-blooded manhood against all the white-corpuscled sickly sentimentality that ever sacrifices innocence on the altar of guilt.
And the younger," cried Heinz joyously, "honours with her gracious innocence the name of her through whom sin came into the world.
I would rather tear the crown from the head of yonder image of the Virgin than do aught to this sweet innocence for which she could not thank me.
Their love is gentle rather than brusque, an air of glamorous wonder broods above them and we meet once more that blend of romantic sensuality and loving innocencewhich is perhaps the chief Indian contribution to cultured living.
In all these pictures, romantic love was treated as the highest good and physical passion was interpreted with a freshness and innocence unequalled in the world's art.
The oath is a relic of barbarous theology, of the belief that a personal God interferes in the affairs of men; that some God protects innocence and guards the right.
In their eyes is no thought, only the innocence of ignorance.
And by the cruel part I mean the doctrine of eternal punishment--of allowing the good to suffer for the bad--allowing innocence to pay the debt of guilt.
Rousseau, as Diderot well knew, was so wayward, so strangely oblique both in vision and judgment, that innocence was no security against malice and misrepresentation.
But now confess, you to whom humanity is indebted for the strong support that you have given to innocence and virtue in the person of Calas, that it would have been cruel and unjust to separate a student from his books.
You are recompensed for the loss of your innocence by that of your prejudices; in the society of the bad, where vice shows itself without a mask, you learn to understand them.
Purity and innocence are excellent things, but a world in which they have to be guarded by such cramping contrivances of conduct is as ridiculous as a heaven where the saints all go about with their haloes protected by mackintosh covers.
The innocence of childhood shone in Mr. Sanders's blue eyes.
Here was another picture, the beauty of which dawned on Gabriel later--youth and innocencesitting at the feet of sweet and wholesome old age.
We have met here to-day, not to discuss measures of vengeance and retaliation, but to consult together as to the best means of securing evidence of the innocence of the young men.
They had either a frank innocenceabout them, or else she was certainly one of the most accomplished actresses and liars of her time.
To which she added with entire innocence of any ironic intention.
In his innocence he steered three of them, at least, through narrow places into an open sea of easy intercourse.
Now the sinful deed was done,--now our innocence was gone!
Its innocence of any offense, until it was attacked, is too clear for argument.
The Kaiser can only convince the world of his innocence of the crime of his Potsdam camarilla by giving the world the text of any advice he gave the Austrian officials.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innocence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
