The deputy sheriff, confronted with the problem of satisfactorily accounting for the death of a man who had committed no offence against public polity, was no longer formidable.
There ought to be a law making it an offence punishable by a heavy penalty, to fasten a horse's head high in the air, as we see the heads of many carriage-horses fastened.
Instead of paying now to have elephants killed the government protects them by making it a serious offence to shoot one.
Offence and Defence As Chun T'i advanced at the head of his warriors terrible lightning rent the air and the mysterious sword descended like a thunderbolt upon his head.
For this offence Ta Chi caused him to be crucified in the palace.
The Headless People The Headless People inhabit the Long Sheep range, to which their ancestors were banished in the remote past for an offence against the gods.
He does no offence to any, and is a veritable providence to his poorer fellow-Bohemians.
The court in detaching this violent passage from its philosophical and artistic setting made Tailhade's offence appear much graver than it really was.
Certain it is, however, that the British Foreign Office after 1909 gave no just cause of offence to Germany.
The Guardians of a certain union in Cambridgeshire had committed the offence of spending three shillings and threepence of public money on toys for sick pauper children in the workhouse infirmary.
Now, for that I love him, I purpose not to take vengeance of him, save on such wise as the offence hath been; he hath had my wife and I mean to have thee.
They had just satisfied a Bulgarian aspiration by allowing of the formation of an independent Bulgarian church, though this meant giving grave offence to the Greeks.
Thence age and death are exil'd, all offence And feare expell'd, all noyse and faction thence.
His offence was that of picking pockets, entailing, of course, a punishment corresponding in severity with the barbarity of the times.
The offence was the same in law as to both the prisoners.
Just before my time the punishment of death was inflicted for almost every offence of stealing which would now be thought sufficiently dealt with by a sentence of a week's imprisonment.
Except for special peremptory reasons, I never passed sentence until I had reconsidered the case and informed my own mind, to the best of my ability, as to what was the true magnitude and character of the offence I was called upon to punish.
I was presiding at the Old Bailey Sessions, and a case came before me of a prisoner who was undergoing a term of two years' imprisonment with hard labour for some offence against the Post Office.
Of necessity it operates to some extent as a warning to others; but that is not its primary object, for no punishment ought to exceed in severity that which is due to the particular offence to which it is applied.
Then I proceeded to fix in my own mind what ought to be the outside sentence that should be awarded for that particular offence had it stood alone; and from that I deducted every circumstance of mitigation, provocation, etc.
There were three men up before Knox for stealing malt; a very serious offence indeed in Saffron Walden, where malt was almost regarded as a sacred object--until it got into the beer.
As often as a man steals let him be sent to prison, and it may be for each offence the time of imprisonment should be somewhat slightly increased, but not the character of the punishment.
Yet my judgment is, be it spoken without offence of the learned physicians, that the disease was Febris ardens, a burning fever.
Old Mr. Fletwode was legally acquitted of all other offence than that of overconfidence in his son.
You must put me on to his style," said Fred; and together they worked out a scheme of offence and defence that they hoped would bring victory to Rally Hall.
I was very busy at the time, and had consequently to suggest the postponing his appointment till a later hour, whereupon he took great offence and refused to return at all.
The residents took no offence at his glossy black frock-coat.
If she had been asked: "Do you think his offence would have been less if you happened to be a cook or a dairymaid?
One is damned for a less offence than the robbery of the treasury, revolt, or parricide.
No,” answered he, “but it is a grievous offence not to know how to make it, and that is the reason these gentlemen are here.
I am a plain-spoken man, and always tell my real mind when I feel it my duty to do so, whether I give offence or not.
The principle is undoubtedly the same, only one is a legaloffence and the other is not.
When they behold your fate, they will take warning from your example; and, finding we have heads and arms not to suffer offence with impunity, be more readily brought to obedience.
The address was moved in the house of lords by the Duke of Sussex, who, in the several topics of his speech, avoided every allusion or expression capable of giving offence to any member of the house.
In the beginning of the year about fifty persons, whose only offence was that of being suspected of being malcontents, were shipped off for Angola.
This concession to the agriculturists gave greatoffence to those who advocated free trade.
Was it not, he asked, a serious consideration that the committee forming the tribunal before which this offence was to be tried, was without the power of administering an oath?
He particularly objected to leaving the offence of setting fire to ships in the royal dockyards capital, and to retaining the punishment of death for attempts to murder.
The part taken by Mr. Bright gave great offence to the anti-slavery party, who considered it more consistent with his interests as a Lancashire cottonspinner, than with his profession as a quaker and an antislavery man.
Another cause of offence may have been derived from his proclamations, which were offensive to good taste, and which justly exposed him to ridicule.
Generally such attempts were frustrated when any weapons of offence were possessed by the attacked; for these enterprises, although furtive and made by considerable numbers, were seldom conducted or maintained with spirit.
In the earlier sense they existed and flourished without doubt, in spite of the law; or it may be that, as the words of the Tables were interpreted in the new sense, the old form of offence was tolerated in private.
Tables made it a capital offence "si quis occentavisset, sive carmen condidisset quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri" (to bring shame or criminal reproach on another).
These could only be employed when the offence was patent and could not be denied.
The primary offence of the ex-chancellor was the taking of bribes, which no twisting of the law could convert into a capital offence, while the charge of treason had not been substantiated.
Therefore as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of ONE, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
The offence that called forth these epithets was, that in addressing Charles II on his restoration, they stated that "they were no abettors of the Quakers.
A man may make restitution unto men for the offence he hath done unto them, and yet be under this covenant.
Ofttimes the offended saith to the intercessor, Well, thou comest to me about this man; what interest he has in thee is one thing, what offence he has committed against me is another.
Let none of you give offence to his brethren in indifferent things, but be subject to one another in love.
They were valuable, also, as a proof that all he said had its exclusive reference to the world to come, without the mixture of politics, which might have given offence to the Government.
I remember once my eldest brother giving me great offence by bursting into laughter, when I offered, in all seriousness, to bring her to the other side of the house where they wanted light to go on with something they were about.
As I have once apologized already for the introduction of a few of his verses with Scotch words in them, I will venture to try whether the same apology will not cover a second offence of the same sort.
See ye neither meddle nor mak, nor gie nae offence wi' that clavering tongue o' yours, but keep a calm sough, and let ilka cock fight his ain battle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
