I need not detail how at the sale he put buyers on their guard, exposing the fraud, and condemning the peccant scarabæi to extinction.
Here is the peccant stave, only to be found in Charleston and other American papers of February 1877, therefore will I give it here:-- To the South.
But all was in vain, until some one turning to the peccant and magical volume found that by the simple process of reversing the passes the abnormal slumber might be made to cease.
It would be easy to crush up a peccant borough or two,--a borough that had been discovered in its sin.
One dash from a peccant oar would destroy the whole symmetry of my dress.
He was a hard, pompous man, full of prejudices, and the happiest moments of his life were those which he spent upon the bench sentencing the peccant rustics.
I am ready,” said Mr. Morton, the peccant secretary of the Bullion Bank.
I say that we ought first to medicate the more dangerous lesion, and, possibly, two results may be obtained by the attraction of the peccant material.
Morbilli is a mild disease, but requires protection from cold, which confines and coagulates the peccant matter.
That the peccant material is to be eliminated gradually by mild remedies, just as it accumulated by degrees.
For this reason I desired to divert the peccant matter downward, a point which the physician should consider and observe.
Many of these eruptions are considered of a critical and salutary nature; and the ancients fancied that nature relieved herself by throwing upon the surface some "peccant humours.
With this the peccant animal is brutally belaboured, till the woods for a mile around re-echo its howlings.
Then breaking off, and transferring her spleen to the peccant Jehu, she flounced into the carriage, and was whirled off out of my sight.
The whole passage about the peccant verse and its fruit of contrition should be read with others that express the same regret for broken law and may all have been added to the diary at the same time, probably in 935 AH.
To read the words as referring to the peccant verse, is to take the clinch off the whole passage.
Her internuntial office none deny, Between us peccant mortals and the sky.
This was probably fortunate for the peccant priest, as the Suprema ordered that nothing should be done except to keep him under surveillance and that the archbishop should be warmly thanked and assured that the necessary steps had been taken.
Ferdinand warmly expressed his displeasure, in a letter of May 21st, ordering copies of all papers to be furnished and proceedings to be suspended for seventy days thereafter--but the peccant officials were not punished.
In the House of Lords, meanwhile, Lord Morley of Blackburn described the idea of a plot as "a sinister hallucination," and mentioned incidentally that the peccant paragraphs had been drafted with his aid.
Not if you know the heart and soul I bare, I bid you cut, hack, slash, anatomize, Till peccant part be found and flung away!
May stranger tax onepeccant part in thee, Poet, three-parts divine!
On the other hand, the peccant confessor could rely on obtaining absolution from a sympathizing colleague, at the cost of penance which had become habitually trivial.
Sometimes he made them discipline themselves in his presence and, as the scourge had to be applied to the peccant parts, he had choice of such exposure as he desired, an opportunity of which he admitted availing himself.
The process of expurgation was the application with a brush of a coat of printing ink to the peccant word or passage, so as to render it perfectly illegible.
Allowances must be made for the moral atmosphere in which he moved, and his career must be considered as a whole, and not only in its peccant parts.
A crowd of out-of-door amusements and interests do much to dispel his peccant humours and to save him from the stagnation and the sensuality that have beset many foreign aristocracies.
But hereof we have given many examples in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book.
Its earlier applications were, no doubt, unduly harsh, not only towards the peccant State, but also towards third States, the ships of which were even confiscated for attempting to break a blockade of this nature.
To localise hostile pressure as far as possible, and to give to it such a character as shall restrict its incidence to the peccant State, is surely in the interest of the general good.
Outwardly used, by them the offending humour (I should have said the peccant humour, had I written only to scholars,) is called from the internal parts of the body to the superfices.
In order that the existing Parliament might be brought somewhat into accord with public necessities and interests, and so made endurable, it must be purged of its peccant elements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peccant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
