Could it be kind, merciful, or just to keep the chains of slavery on their helpless, unoffending brother?
The perpetrators were citizens living near the middle block-house, whose wives and children had been killed a few days before by the hostiles, but who well knew that these unoffending creatures had had nothing to do with those murders.
The younger of the two guards went straight up to an unoffending medical student, a Lieutenant Downes (S.
His plea was that poor little unoffending Germany was only standing up for herself against a set of blood-thirsty enemies who wished to crush her.
On one occasion when the interpreter was not present, some unoffending person asked the Hun a question in English.
You talk about me making a cowardly set upon unoffending people.
Bring them along or, by all the fiends, we shall yet manage to send half your unoffending town to heaven with us in smoke!
What would have been the fate of the peaceable and unoffending inhabitants, if success had attended your rebellious designs, it is useless to conjecture.
Though the Germans had worked such havoc on the unoffending town, they could not forbear to assault it a fourth time.
One of these waiters, being of a malicious turn of mind, found great enjoyment in teasing the unoffending animal, and missed no opportunity of giving him a rough knock on the nose in passing.
That imperious queen and indefatigable tourist paid several visits to Croydon Palace, and her characteristic insolence and freedom of speech were let loose upon the unoffending wife of Archbishop Parker when she took her leave.
It will prove that the immortal character, which has first stopped by war the career of the destroyer of mankind, is the friend of peace, of justice, of human happiness, and the patron of unoffending and injured nations.
In the same time how many hundreds of unoffending Chinese have been murdered in civilised foreign countries?
Alas, poor innocent, unoffending Belgium, whom they undertook by honourable treaty to protect and uphold!
Charge the common Father of the white and the black, He, who is no respecter of persons, with plundering His unoffending children of all which makes the boon of existence desirable; their personal liberty!
The moment he saw any of these poor blacks approaching, he used to run into the house for his rifle, and on several occasions fired at and wounded the unoffending wretches.
And he saw how man had cut down the unoffending image of himself-how Christian ministers had become the tyrant's hand-fellow in the work of oppression.
Again he left the state, and during his absence it is supposed he was engaged in nefarious practices with the notorious Murrel, who carried rapine and death into the unoffending villages of the far west.
How grateful to every feeling of humanity would it be could we conclude this narrative without being compelled to say, that these unoffending people had found reason to change both their opinions and their conduct!
He calculated that at least half a millionunoffending peasants must die of starvation.
On pikes to be driven into the breasts of unoffending men and women!
He had stained the soil of Virginia with the blood of innocent and unoffending citizens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unoffending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: harmless; innocent; innocuous; inoffensive
