But his kindly and inoffensive nature was incapable of malice, and he behaved with a moderation almost amounting to magnanimity.
Even the inoffensive Menonists, though thoroughly non-combatant from principle, did not escape the sack and plunder to which the whole river was subjected by Carr and his co-marauders.
A very quiet, thoughtful, inoffensive man, John Brown, an Englishman, moved from Boston to Flushing.
Jonathan Williams, a very pious, inoffensive and conscientious gentleman, was their moderator.
Mr. Rodney was remarkably fond of a good joke if inoffensive and chaste.
For his part, he had never found in any part of the world so peaceable and inoffensive a community.
She has made an impression on you, Bob," said I, but in so sedulously inoffensive a manner that his self-betrayal was all the greater when he told me quite hotly not to be an ass.
It was culpably, might indeed have been wilfully, ambiguous; and yet it was the kind of clumsy and impulsive utterance which has the ring of a good intention, and is thus inoffensive except to such as seek excuses for offence.
Was ever an inoffensiveand respectable gentleman placed in a more false and ridiculous position?
You lash out with your hind legs at an inoffensive school-fellow, with all the viciousness of a kangaroo, eh?
There was a small flaxen-haired little boy sitting next to Mr. Bultitude, seemingly a quite inoffensive being, who at this stage served to sober him by furnishing another complication.
He had the inoffensive Kiffin for a neighbour, his chief tormentors were far away from him in one of the back pews, and here at least he thought no harm could come to him.
Two cobblers took an ill will to this inoffensive creature, and several times pricked him on the proboscis with their awls.
He was always in a small way of business, a quiet, inoffensive man who brought up his family respectably, and lived in peace with his neighbors, attracting no particular remark.
Paul, broken-hearted, gazed sadly at that face with its short nose, retaining in its inert condition the wrathful yet kindly expression of an inoffensive creature who tried to defend himself before dying, but had no time to bite.
That's what it is to be inoffensive in these regions, my good sir.
He was even afraid of meeting his young master, Baron Michel (inoffensive as he knew him to be), ever since a certain night when he had cut the girths of the baron's saddle.
Socialism by becoming ministerial would be domesticated and rendered inoffensive against capital.
The country at length began to awaken to a sense of the criminality of those laws which it had imposed upon an inoffensive people.
Galician highways, and their nearest prototypes to-day are harmless peasants adorned with flowing side-whiskers, the style of decoration favoured by respectable and inoffensive British butlers.
Sentries allow you, being inoffensive visitors, to cross the bridge unchallenged.
His feet were weapons almost as deadly as a bear's feet, by which I mean the feet of the northern and western bear, and not those of inoffensive Koala.
Animals which divide the hoof are more inoffensive with their feet, than the several tribes of wild beasts, whose paws are armed with sharp claws, to seize their prey.
But the birds which thus express their indignation against the Owl, never kill him, being unarmed and inoffensive in their nature.
We shall consider as typical that of Simulium pictipes, an inoffensive species widely distributed in the Eastern United States, which has been studied especially at Ithaca, N.
These inoffensive bullets of the Russians still continued to preserve my heroic calmness.
You have wantonly provoked and insulted those inoffensive lieges for some months, and your punishment will assuredly be condign.
Inoffensive as the whale is, it is not without enemies.
In the midst of these peaceful scenes was perpetrated a cruel wrong, and aninoffensive people banished by the mandate of a tyrant!
They were extremely quiet and inoffensive in their demeanour, and asked us to point out where they might sleep, before they ventured to kindle their fires.
Their manners were those of a quiet and inoffensive people, and their appearance in some measure prepossessing.
It was one of those inoffensive creeks, termed by courtesy a river, that the Hudson river of the East, the Mississippi of the Middle or the Red river of the West might call a stripling.
Right above Johnstown on the self-same Conemaugh, or rather where the North Fork glides into that erstwhile inoffensive stream, was a reservoir.
Many were dissatisfied, of course, and although the deacon had always been known as a quiet, inoffensive man, he suddenly became the subject of derogatory remarks.
