He may have to adapt himself to the tastes and manners of the poorer members of his flock at some rural entertainment where his presence will tend to promote innocent mirth and to check dangerous excesses.
Thirdly, delicacy of conscience in the innocent whose eye being single and their body full of light, accuse themselves of omissions and deviations from the will of God which we, perhaps, daily commit without discernment.
All this is in the most winning and seductive melody; it is exactly the tone in which a young nobleman and a rather coquettish but entirely innocent young girl would express themselves.
As if the grapes were stained with the blood Of the innocent boy who, some years back, Was taken and crucified by the Jews In that ancient town of Bacharach.
He does not expect the fervor of youthful passion in his young wife; but he finds what is far better--the fearless confidence of one so innocent that she can scarcely believe in the existence of guilt.
Suffolk, "Come, basilisk, and kill the innocent gazer with thy sight.
Beautiful, passionate, and conscienceless, she condemns an innocent rival to the worst of fates, without a pang of conscience, and dies a violent death at the hands of one who was once her lover.
Its consequences extended disastrously through many years, and involved a vast number of innocentpersons in irretrievable ruin.
The innocent and simple hearted maiden looked forward to her marriage as to a release from a tedious and intolerable bondage.
And often the good priest, Pere Antoine, came to sit with her and talk innocent gossip.
The last thing to go was a tiny bundle of letters; innocentlittle scribblings that Desiree had sent to him during the days of their espousal.
Had I known the contents of this innocent looking scrap of paper, it would have been utterly impossible to have induced me to even touch it.
It seemed the gobbler, poor innocent bird, was on his way to make gay an officer's mess.
Now, suddenly, he occupied her whole mental vision--the central innocent victim of an impending tragedy.
In the midst of my studies, and of a life as innocent as man could lead, notwithstanding every persuasion to the contrary, the dread of hell frequently tormented me.
Serious people usually possess a lively sensuality, which makes them highly enjoy those innocent pleasures that are allowed them.
Should I, who never do ill to any person, be the innocent means of doing it to my friends?
I did not say, nothing is yet done, and you may be innocent if you please; but I said, tremble at the crime thou hast committed, which hath reduced thee to the necessity of filling up the measure of thine iniquities.
I mentioned to him the unworthy manoeuvres of Madam d' Epinay to intercept the innocent letters her sister-in-law wrote to me.
Some men would be tempted to say, that nothing succeeds except the dark conspiracies of the wicked, and that the innocent intentions of the good are seldom or never accomplished.
On calling to mind our pleasures and innocent life, I was seized with such oppressions and heaviness of heart, as deprived me of the power of performing anything as it should be.
Walking along these beautiful banks, on my way to Vevay, I gave myself up to the soft melancholy; my heart rushed with ardor into a thousand innocent felicities; melting to tenderness, I sighed and wept like a child.
At length, she denied it with firmness, but without anger, exhorting me to return to myself, and not injure an innocent girl who had never wronged me.
We see also," says the Dean, "the union of innocent fiction with worldly craft, which marks so many of the legends both of Pagan and Christian times.
If the innocent victims were only to marry males of equal innocence, under the guardianship of virtuous parents, the days of this world would be numbered, my boy.
Abbott did not volunteer that he had seen them pass, but his face showed the ostensible integrity of a jam-thief, who for once finds himself innocent when missing jam is mentioned.
In pursuing the policy that led to the disastrous siege of their city the Jews should have known how many innocent victims would be dragged into the vortex of misery if the course they had chosen were to fail.
There is nothing that more distresses the author of these poems than the sufferings of innocent children in the siege of Jerusalem.
A humble conscience will not be eager to repudiate the possibility that its owner has not been punished beyond his deserts, whatever may be thought of other people, innocent children in particular.
Children may not be accounted innocent in the absolute sense of the word.
A true woman, aninnocent child, a pure man, coming across the path of one who has permitted himself to slide down towards murky depths, arrests his attention with a painful shock of surprise.
Three brothers taking a ride end passing through an insulated valley, met their sister receiving the innocent caresses of her lover.
Pippin, that boy left us aninnocent boy, that never had a bad word in his mouth that ever I heard, nor no one round here.
And strange to think of Pippin's being chosen to comfort the old sinner in his last hour and inherit the wheel that had been an innocent particeps criminis in so many "deals"!
But what keeps comin' back and back on my mind is--she was so innocent and so pretty!
Meantime she had drawn the child Peppino into the seat next her, and was lavishing on him all the innocent wiles of the child-hungry woman; and the child nestled close to her, and looked up at her with adoring eyes.
He boomed all over the place, vocal castigations falling right and left on the guilty and the innocent without distinction.
She might be weeks or months clearing herself, innocentthough she be.
Haven't I made it plain to you that she is innocent of any intent to do wrong?
Every one in this village knows where to find you in case a warrant is granted, which doesn't now seem possible, and it is better to go ahead as you proposed, knowing that your mother is certain you are innocent of any wrongdoing.
The widow had every proof, even if her heart had not told the truth, that her son was innocent of the charge which the angry old man made.
Five minutes later they were walking along the dusty road looking as innocent as possible, and feeling comparatively safe.
There must have been something new come up, an' I won't be able to show that I'm innocent of robbing the store.
They wouldn't have nothink to say to me if I wos to go to a nice innocent place fur to live.
I have stated to the magistrates, 'Gentlemen, I am as innocent of this charge as yourselves; what has been stated against me in the way of facts is perfectly true; I know no more about it.
Who ud go and let a nice innocent lodging to such a reg'lar one as me!
His mental sufferings are so great that he entertains wandering ideas of delivering himself up to justice and requiring to be cleared if innocent and punished with the utmost rigour of the law if guilty.
I knew I was as innocent of my birth as a queen of hers and that before my Heavenly Father I should not be punished for birth nor a queen rewarded for it.
Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as can be in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it if they can.
But I don't see how an innocent man is to make up his mind to this kind of thing without knocking his head against the walls unless he takes it in that point of view.
It seemed to become personally important to myself that the truth should be discovered and that no innocent people should be suspected, for suspicion, once run wild, might run wilder.
The sorrow that has been in her face--for it is not there now--seems to have purified even its innocent expression and to have given it a diviner quality.
Volumnia, with her innocent little scream, supposes so.
Charged with a murder, my Lady, of which he is as innocent as--as I am.
But my good fellow, even an innocent man must take ordinary precautions to defend himself.
He is free with his money, affable in his manners, innocent in his conversation--but through the placid stream of his life there glides an under-current of forefinger.
Believe no other good of me, for I am innocent of nothing else that you have heard, or will hear, laid to my charge.
So David delivered the seven innocent men into their hands, "and they hanged them before the Lord.
By the later Isaiah is shown the figure of an innocent sufferer, whose sorrows are to issue in the widest blessing.
A neat contribution, by the way, to the psychology of innocent girlhood.
We men cull the choicest partners, make the severest selections, and the innocent Lucys gracefully submit.
It's amusing enough, and it's innocentenough in its way.
What hints I shall gather for the innocent pleasure-seekers of Sennaar who still fancy that when they bargain for a draught of rose sherbet, they have tacitly agreed for a glass to drink it from!
I'm sure it was an innocent question; but they all fell to laughing again, and Mr. Firkin positively cried with fun.
Yet it is a very innocent ignorance of your father's.
It is dreadful, dreadful, that an innocent maid should be so tormented by acts which her guileless fancy could never compass!
This I dare swear, no malice here is writ: 'Tis innocent of all things--even of wit.
We are only to take care, that we involve not theinnocent with the guilty in the same condemnation.
I have destroyed her, the beautiful, innocent creature.
Violante caught the prevailing tone and worshipped Miss Florence with innocent ardour.
Shy as she was, she was utterly trustful, and was too innocent and too fervent for any pretence of coyness.
Hugh vowed to himself that he would justify her innocent trust, and give her all she knew not how to demand.
No, not that greatinnocent stare--through your eyelashes, so.
This she was carefully taught; but it was surely no human words, but the blessing of God on her innocent humble spirit, that opened her loving heart to a new and Divine love.
Ah, how should I grieve if one so young andinnocent should die tormented with the want of water.
I hold you to be an innocent girl, though I have not lived with you yet.
They do not care to prolong, even for a year what to us seems the sweetest, loveliest period of life, the time of artless, innocent maidenhood.
A widow who has borne sons or who is aged is somewhat less despised than the child widow; on her falls the worst abuse and hatred of the community, though she be as innocent of any crime as an angel.
The barbarous sacrifice of an innocent maiden is of course a myth, but it is a myth which doubtless had many counterparts in Greek life.
I have looked at their innocent faces and tender bodies, and asked, 'Why?
This led to a big palaver before the chief, at which the verdict was that the cook was innocent and that the girl had trumped up the charge in order to force the marriage.
The Chippewas were suspected, and a party of warriors at once broke up in pursuit of the innocent and unsuspecting party.
And at the end he makes Phaedra, before committing suicide, write an infamous letter which, to save her reputation, dooms to a cruel death the innocent victim of her infatuation.
