By a master stroke of genius the artist has shown very delicately that human nature is not utterly depraved, for the villain has placed in the hand of each of the innocents a penny bun as a parting present.
He has explored the arid jungles of Africa, drawn forth the spotted cobra by his prehensile tail, snowballed the Russian bear on the snowy slopes of Alpine forests, and sold wooden nutmegs to the unsuspecting innocents of Patagonia.
The slaughter of the Innocents is referred to in several carols, and there are some written expressly for Innocents’ Day; the day of the week on which it falls being considered unlucky throughout the year by many.
Next year, in fact, in the person of my first book, 'The Innocents Abroad'.
But now there were more slaughtered innocents to avenge--and now he had the army of the United States to help him do it.
And the stage, fickle and flighty, lays its innocents on the altar.
The insatiable rapacity of man, the lust of the hunt, the demands of brutish passion ordain it that these 5,000 young innocents be led forth to the slaughter, annually.
The result is that the market houses are yawning, constantly holding forth an insatiable maw into which new blood must be poured, new lives must be thrown, more young innocents must be devoured.
It tells of the end of the 5,000 innocents who yearly are lured to a life of shame in the city of Chicago alone.
In all these essential and traditional regards the assembled Innocents were as poignantly disappointing as the costers of London had proved themselves.
Similarly these gentlemen habitues of the Cave of the Innocents wore few or no velvet pants, and guzzled little or none of the absinthe.
It was the holy priest of Nissard; and when one of the cruel men said we were only little heretics who ought to die like rats in a hole, he said we were but innocents who did not know the difference.
It is but a chance,' said the old Huguenot; 'many of the innocents were with their mothers in yonder church.
She then hastened to the Mont de Piete, where they loaned her fifty sous on her dress and fichu, and, armed with this money, Mariette flew back to the Charnier des Innocents to find the scrivener.
I asked a scrivener on the Charnier des Innocents to write a letter to you.
The Festival of the Fools, the Festival of the Ass, the Festival of the Innocents and of the Sub-deacons, were some of the names of these burlesque celebrations.
This square replaces the Market of the Innocents abolished in 1860.
Why can't I have a few dear little mischievous innocents to amuse me in the long dreary nights?
We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.
They know this brutal dictator will do anything, will use any weapon, will commit any outrage, no matter how many innocents must suffer.
The Cemetery of the Innocents was on one side, and had one entrance on the square, another on Rue de la Ferronnerie, and a third on Rue aux Fers.
Lescot and Goujon were also associated in the construction of the most beautiful Renaissance fountain in Paris, the Fontaine des Innocents, which formerly stood against the old church of the Innocents at the corner of the Rue aux Fers.
A little to the north were the noisy market-place of the Halles and the cemetery of the Innocents with its piles of skulls, and its vaulted arcade painted (1424) with the Dance of Death.
Yes, you're right," said Hugh, thrilled by the thought of a catastrophe overtaking those innocents below.
Keep watch on your right as you go from here," she told him, "and while you're gone I shall pray that you find the poor little innocents safe and unharmed.
In this review I had intimated my reservations concerning the 'Innocents Abroad', but I had the luck, if not the sense, to recognize that it was such fun as we had not had before.
Thus did God take the second revenge upon the perjured Governor and such as assisted him to defend an unjust quarrel; albeit many innocents fell with the wicked.
At these words the faithless man, effrayed,[28] adjudged the innocents to die, according to the desire of the wicked.
That subjects have refused to strike innocents when a king commanded, and in doing so denied no just obedience.
True it is that by false judgment and false witnesses innocents have been oppressed from the beginning.
I pity you, as I said before, and still more the little innocents who are at present confided to your care.
They will there attack and slaughter millions, to possess themselves of that gold which the innocents value not.
In 'The Innocents Abroad' Mark Twain tells of the murdered man he saw one night in his father's office.
The Killing of Julius Caesar Localized" is an excellent forerunner of his burlesque report of a gladiatorial combat in The Innocents Abroad.
Thus Lancelot of the Lake appears unexpectedly at the Court of king Herod, and after much rant the lover of queen Guinevere draws his invincible sword and massacres the Innocents ("Chester Plays").
The feast of the Innocents was even more popular in England.
No, nor yet silly village innocents who follow La Meffraye from the play-fields through the woodlands to the Paradise of our Lord Gilles!
It shows in what hidden places the bones of these slaughtered innocents may be found.
So they chanted in their white robes in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents in the Castle of Machecoul near by the Atlantic shore.
It is a shame and a sin that two such fair innocents should be compelled to join in aught ruder than the chanting of psalms in holy service.
In the sacristy good Father Blouyn, with an air of resigned reluctance, was handing over to an emissary of his master the moulds in which the tall altar candles for the Chapel of the Holy Innocents were usually cast and compacted.
I beseech you, let these innocents go, and bind me upon the altar in their places.
The fun of Innocents Abroad consists in this irreverent application of modern, common sense, utilitarian, democratic standards to the memorable places and historic associations of Europe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innocents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
