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  • She was still pointing out GaoLing's transgressions.   (source)
    transgressions = violations
  • Even without a transgression, that same fight-or-flight instinct set in.   (source)
    transgression = rule violation
  • Once they obey you, you have no excuse to transgress against them.   (source)
    transgress = violate rules
  • our manifold transgressions of Thy holy laws,   (source)
    transgressions = violations
  • Such behavior was bad for Germany, and it was bad for the transgressor.†   (source)
  • She never manages to overcome her sense of transgression in these various rooms — the feeling that she's violating the private boundaries of whoever ordinarily lives in them.†   (source)
  • His manner forgiving her all transgressions past and present.†   (source)
  • What happens in training is highly secretive, so there's no point in taking action against me when no one will know what my transgression was.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Ammu, Estha and she were the worst transgressors.†   (source)
  • I might well have added "Transgressors will be subject to confinement!"†   (source)
  • By stopping the story where the drama normally kicks in, with the children innocently transgressing against the witch's property, Coover forces us to see how our responses—anxiety, trepidation, excitement—are conditioned by our previous encounters with the original fairy tale.†   (source)
  • Being always the first to spot flaws and transgressions, it falls upon Father to deliver penance.†   (source)
  • If I had to write down every transgression for which I should apologize to Tom, I could fill a book.†   (source)
  • One of the handicaps of coaching at an evangelical Christian school is that a technical foul isn't regarded by your own fans as a rallying cry but a spiritual transgression: you really didn't want Briarcrest people to think that you didn't have your passions well under control.†   (source)
  • The time Daddy had fallen off the haytruck and gone into a great big cowflop in Back Field (but no mention of the times he had beaten them until they couldn't sit down in payment for some real or imagined transgression); the time they had snuck into the old Met Theater in Lisbon Falls to see Elvis in Love Me Tender (but not the time Momma had had her credit cut off at the Red & White and had backed out of the grocery in tears, leaving a full basket of provisions behind and everybody watching); how Red Timmins from up the road was always trying to kiss Holly on their walk back from school (but not how Red had lost an arm when his tractor turned turtle on him in August of 1962).†   (source)
  • For this was the time of their greatest victories over the subterranean hostility of a milieu that resisted accepting them as they were: different and modern, and for that reason transgressors against the traditional order.†   (source)
  • Why do I remember the scars, Dream of old transgressions ....And why do I sleep with fears?†   (source)
  • Over the millennia, they have assumed the position of enforcing our rules—which actually translates to punishing transgressors.†   (source)
  • All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit no transgression.†   (source)
  • He saw their young faces grow even more pale, knowing they were imagining this little transgression on their record.†   (source)
  • They'd come up through Youth House and a number of reformat ries, raised on the felony alphabet, and we pounded up and down the floor in that dusty gym, working off the effects of our transgressions.†   (source)
  • With Crash still off the tier after the hype kit transgression, things were quieter.†   (source)
  • Its face was beatific, but there was a crack that ran from temple to chin, marring the face for some past transgression.†   (source)
  • So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it.†   (source)
  • He said you should rather be leading us in public confessions of each and every sin that any one of us ever has committed, so as we might come upon the transgression that has brought down God's wrath and root it out from amongst us.†   (source)
  • We can't own property or attend schools, and even the mildest transgression results in enslavement.†   (source)
  • "I have committed a great transgression by sneaking in behind you," said the Mede.†   (source)
  • Hit said thangs like 'A female by one transgression forfeits her place in society forever.'†   (source)
  • And if he tries to commit some transgression, we shall kill him.†   (source)
  • In fact the only time that I was ever given a hiding by him was when I dodged a Sunday service to take part in a fight against boys from another village, a transgression I never committed again.†   (source)
  • The great professor of law has transgressed, inserted himself where he should not be.†   (source)
  • "You're visited with penalties if you transgress," he went on, speaking in a kind of storm, "but I'm no longer afraid of censure by my colleagues or of being without the Academy, for I walked out myself and can never return.†   (source)
  • It was by honouring the law, and punishing anybody who transgressed it so that they knew they were punished.†   (source)
  • To them, we offer up our bodies in hope of revelation into the mysteries of this life and in hope of absolution for our transgressions.†   (source)
  • In the Army that situation would have been taken care of in a matter of a few painful minutes, with a months-long penance by the transgressor to follow.†   (source)
  • Lord Slynt's jowls were quivering, but before he could frame a further protest Maester Aemon said, "Your Grace, by law a man's past crimes and transgressions are wiped clean when he says his words and becomes a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch."†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Kay's heart was big enough to look past Phil's transgressions and remember the man she married.†   (source)
  • We ask Your forgiveness for any way that we have transgressed against Your Lord.†   (source)
  • But the friendship did not extend to his classroom and tardiness was the one transgression he would not tolerate in any cadet.†   (source)
  • Had Albert somehow transgressed the wolfish code, and was he about to be made to pay for his transgressions with his blood?†   (source)
  • As we moved toward the door, the three of us, Nathan—looking a bit like a fashionable gambler now in his suit out of an old Vanity Fair—looped his long arm around my shoulder and offered me an apology so straightforward and honorable that I could not help but forgive him his dark insults, his bigoted and wrong-headed slurs and his other transgressions.†   (source)
  • BRADY To make an example of this transgressor!†   (source)
  • Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.   (source)
  • For our gift is greater than our transgression.   (source)
    transgression = breaking of rules
  • Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed?†   (source)
  • He has an overwhelming sense of having transgressed.†   (source)
  • We are the balance of our damage and our transgressions.†   (source)
  • By such a fate it came to pass that the transgressor died, not even getting burial in the ground.†   (source)
  • But other transgressions and offenses were more secret.†   (source)
  • But as we know, the transgressions did not stop.... "Please continue," said Ms.†   (source)
  • Not even cousins would discuss such transgressions.†   (source)
  • Still I had to wonder, why had my need to transgress taken me so far, to a prison camp?†   (source)
  • After all his transgressions, and there I lie in my bed hoping-dare I say it?†   (source)
  • I will not blame him for these transgressions.†   (source)
  • You can apologize and even if you cannot remember committing your transgression, that doesn't mean that Your apology, and the sentiment behind your apology, is not sincere.†   (source)
  • Had the transgressions stopped there, he might have been moved to overlook them in his desire to keep the peace.†   (source)
  • At each halting checkpoint it snarled, spinning around several times as if both expecting and loathing the sharp electrical shock it would receive through its collar if it transgressed without cause.†   (source)
  • In the end, the only way I could edge forward was by explaining to those who'd been waiting (in some cases, for days) that I was Shay Bourne's legal advisor and that I would pass along their pleas: from the elderly couple with knotted hands, whose twin diagnoses—breast cancer and lymphatic cancer—came within a week of each other; to the father who carried pictures of the eight children he couldn't support since losing his job; to the daughter pushing her mother's wheelchair, wishing for just one more lucid moment in the fog of Alzheimer's so that she could say she was sorry for a transgression that had happened years earlier.†   (source)
  • My life's aspiration is to not rest until the noble blacks of the Amistad are freed and returned to their native soil, and your clients are made to pay the highest price for their transgressions against God and the natural right of all men to maintain their own freedom.†   (source)
  • The things that I had liked about her over a decade earlier—her humor, her curiosity, her hustle, her interest in the weird and transgressive—all those things were still true; in fact, they had been sharpened by her years in a high-security prison in California.†   (source)
  • Even if one was willing to risk such a transgression, it was a profoundly hazardous exercise—one that had cost David Menlo his hand.†   (source)
  • For transgression,†   (source)
  • For if transgressions have been made, then John Rimbauer has already switched his allegiance, whether aware of it or not.†   (source)
  • My fears have found their way into my prayers, and I find myself in sin, making silent requests to the powers that surround us to punish John Rimbauer if any transgressions be known.†   (source)
  • He had suffered boredom and anxiety, and even revulsion, but no sense of sin from the bestial crimes he had been party to, nor had he felt that in sending thousands of the wretched innocent to oblivion he had transgressed against divine law.†   (source)
  • Had Albert somehow transgressed the wolfish code, and was he about to be made to pay for his transgressions with his blood?†   (source)
  • Having achieved my object — that of forcing at least one of the wolves to take cognizance of my existence — I now began to wonder if, in my ignorance, I had transgressed some unknown wolf law of major importance and would have to pay for my temerity.†   (source)
  • Even the Chinese border guards and the marine patrols on and off the shores of the Shenzhen Wan did not fire on such insignificant transgressors; they were unimportant and who knew what families beyond the New Territories on the Mainland might benefit.†   (source)
  • No crime or transgression had been actually named and no penance had been actually set.†   (source)
  • He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory.†   (source)
  • And burying the memory of your transgressions Restored your honours and your possessions.†   (source)
  • They brought the Transgressor out into the square and they led them to the pyre.†   (source)
  • It is a transgression to speak to men of other Trades, save in groups at the Social Meetings.†   (source)
  • And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.†   (source)
  • They had torn out the tongue of the Transgressor, so that they could speak no longer.†   (source)
  • We were guilty and we confess it here: we were guilty of the great Transgression of Preference.†   (source)
  • I pondered continuously ways of making money, and the only ways that I could think of involved transgressions of the law.†   (source)
  • The way of the transgressor is hard.†   (source)
  • "Just let me not perish before I have begged the forgiveness of the man whom I betrayed," I prayed; "let me not be too late; let not the tale of mine and her transgression come from her lips instead of mine.†   (source)
  • This here's a nice one, just blowed full a religion: 'Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.†   (source)
  • Bryant had transgressed it, and though Conway had not taken much interest in the case, he had an impression that it was a fairly bad one of its kind.†   (source)
  • But it seemed to us that the eyes of the Transgressor had chosen us from the crowd and were looking straight upon us.†   (source)
  • It is our second Transgression of Preference, for we do not think of all our brothers, as we must, but only of one, and their name is Liberty 5-3000.†   (source)
  • As the chains were wound over their body at the stake, and a flame set to the pyre, the Transgressor looked upon the City.†   (source)
  • We were just like all our brothers then, save for the one transgression: we fought with our brothers.†   (source)
  • The Transgressor were young and tall.†   (source)
  • The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.†   (source)
  • I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.†   (source)
  • We matter not, nor our transgression.†   (source)
  • And as we look back upon our life, we see that it has ever been thus and that it has brought us step by step to our last, supreme transgression, our crime of crimes hidden here under the ground.†   (source)
  • This is an evil thing to say, for it is a transgression, the great Transgression of Preference, to love any among men better than the others, since we must love all men and all men are our friends.†   (source)
  • And we thought then, standing in the square, that the likeness of a Saint was the face we saw before us in the flames, the face of the Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word.†   (source)
  • For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.†   (source)
  • By his crime he would have transgressed not only against men but against the Church of Christ.†   (source)
  • They were of the most curious character: odd transgressions that I never imagined previously.†   (source)
  • Have we not already granted thee a full pardon for all transgressions?†   (source)
  • She obeyed his directions very punctually: perhaps she had no temptation to transgress.†   (source)
  • Lady Russell, in spite of all her former transgressions, he could now value from his heart.†   (source)
  • You, too, have transgressed...have had the strength to transgress.†   (source)
  • You, too, have transgressed...have had the strength to transgress.†   (source)
  • Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression.†   (source)
  • For some reason, though I know not why in the argument, so utterly had I lost it in the contemplation of one stray brown lock of Maud's hair, he quoted from Iseult at Tintagel, where she says: "Blessed am I beyond women even herein, That beyond all born women is my sin, And perfect my transgression."†   (source)
  • Transgression—punishment—bang!†   (source)
  • His primacy was savage, and savagely he ruled, administering justice with a club, punishing transgression with the pain of a blow, and rewarding merit, not by kindness, but by withholding a blow.†   (source)
  • Then feeling that her exuberance had transgressed on Nicole's rights, she looked at the sand exactly between them: "I wanted to ask you both what you thought of my latest pictures—if you saw them.†   (source)
  • There in the grey room, with the pictures on the wall, and the valuable furniture, under the ground glass skylight, they learnt the extent of their transgressions; huddled up in arm-chairs, they watched him go through, for their benefit, a curious exercise with the arms, which he shot out, brought sharply back to his hip, to prove (if the patient was obstinate) that Sir William was master of his own actions, which the patient was not.†   (source)
  • He had terribly transgressed.†   (source)
  • ...Take care you don't transgress it.†   (source)
  • Here and there a restriction annoyed her particularly, and she would transgress it, and perhaps be sorry that she had done so.†   (source)
  • 'Of course I don't know that story; I can only guess that once before Patusan had been used as a grave for some sin, transgression, or misfortune.†   (source)
  • Yet I could easily recognise this class of transgressions by the anguish of mind which preceded, as well as by the rigour of the punishment which followed them; and I knew that what I had just done was in the same category as certain other sins for which I had been severely chastised, though infinitely more serious than they.†   (source)
  • For a moment all were touched, and there was disposition to deal mercifully with her, seeing that she was so young and friendless, and her case so piteous, and the law that robbed her of her support to blame as being the first and only cause of her transgression; but the prosecuting officer replied that whereas these things were all true, and most pitiful as well, still there was much small theft in these days, and mistimed mercy here would be a danger to property—oh, my God, is there no property in ruined homes, and orphaned babes, and broken hearts that British law holds precious!†   (source)
  • Secure, because once enlisted aboard a King's-ship, they were as much in sanctuary, as the transgressor of the Middle Ages harboring himself under the shadow of the altar.†   (source)
  • Whatever had been the blissful ignorance of Ambrose, it was manifestly certain that Christine knew how she had transgressed.†   (source)
  • the mouth irregular and ragged beneath a naked, red upper lip still somewhat raw from shaving; the strained tracery of creases across the bare brow encircled by white flames; the little pale eyes held wide—and in his eyes Hans Castorp saw something like a flicker of terror at that crime, that one great sin, that unpardonable transgression, to which he had alluded and which, in trying to fathom its horror, he had condemned to silence with all the spellbinding energy of a vague but commanding personality ...Objective, matter-of-fact terror, Hans Castorp thought, but personal terror, too, something to do with his own life, with the regal man himself.†   (source)
  • Once, considering in wonder her knowledge of men, she interrogated herself to see just why she could not overlook Stewart's transgression.†   (source)
  • They reason thus because they are unable to comprehend that even venial sin is of such a foul and hideous nature that even if the omnipotent Creator could end all the evil and misery in the world, the wars, the diseases, the robberies, the crimes, the deaths, the murders, on condition that he allowed a single venial sin to pass unpunished, a single venial sin, a lie, an angry look, a moment of wilful sloth, He, the great omnipotent God could not do so because sin, be it in thought or deed, is a transgression of His law and God would not be God if He did not punish the transgressor.†   (source)
  • So to do would not only have been as idle as invoking the desert, but would also have been an audacious transgression of the bounds of his function, one as exactly prescribed to him by military law as that of the boatswain or any other naval officer.†   (source)
  • She had transgressed no laws of God.†   (source)
  • She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,—and there was no answer one could make her—there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression.†   (source)
  • 'The way of the transgressor—' " She shook her head and put her two large hands together and gripped them firmly, while Clyde stared, thinking of the situation and all that it might mean to him.†   (source)
  • He was so powerful, in such favour with the people who 'really counted,' that he made it possible for us to transgress laws which Francoise had taught me to regard as more ineluctable than the laws of life and death, as when we were allowed to postpone for a year the compulsory repainting of the walls of our house, alone among all the houses in that part of Paris, or when he obtained permission from the Minister for Mme. Sazerat's son, who had been ordered to some watering-place, to take his degree two months before the proper time, among the candidates whose surnames began with 'A,' instead of having to wait his turn as an 'S.'†   (source)
  • However, I walked away, carrying with me, then and for ever afterwards, as the first illustration of a type of happiness rendered inaccessible to a little boy of my kind by certain laws of nature which it was impossible to transgress, the picture of a little girl with reddish hair, and a skin freckled with tiny pink marks, who held a trowel in her hand, and smiled as she directed towards me a long and subtle and inexpressive stare.†   (source)
  • They reason thus because they are unable to comprehend that even venial sin is of such a foul and hideous nature that even if the omnipotent Creator could end all the evil and misery in the world, the wars, the diseases, the robberies, the crimes, the deaths, the murders, on condition that he allowed a single venial sin to pass unpunished, a single venial sin, a lie, an angry look, a moment of wilful sloth, He, the great omnipotent God could not do so because sin, be it in thought or deed, is a transgression of His law and God would not be God if He did not punish the transgressor.†   (source)
  • And then McMillan outlining his tall, thin figure against the bars and without introduction of any kind, beginning, his head bowed in prayer: "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions."†   (source)
  • He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a bat-like soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness, tarrying awhile, loveless and sinless, with her mild lover and leaving him to whisper of innocent transgressions in the latticed ear of a priest.†   (source)
  • The way of the transgressor.†   (source)
  • Though some may get property, no one knows how, yet they are not privileged to transgress the laws any more than the poorest citizen in the State.†   (source)
  • Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?†   (source)
  • Sometimes, however, those who write for the stage in democracies also transgress the bounds of human nature—but it is on a different side from their predecessors.†   (source)
  • Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?†   (source)
  • The Furies,[121] they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path, they would punish him.†   (source)
  • She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax's feelings to Frank Churchill.†   (source)
  • And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.†   (source)
  • Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.†   (source)
  • Although this was the most strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, therefore, never described.†   (source)
  • In a society where there is no punishment to evade, no law to triumph over, remorse will certainly follow transgression.†   (source)
  • Saint-Louis of France, my master, transgressed, with the same object, the church of Monsieur Saint-Paul; and Monsieur Alphonse, son of the king of Jerusalem, the very church of the Holy Sepulchre.†   (source)
  • We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.†   (source)
  • The Puritan—if not belied by some singular stories, murmured, even at this day, under the narrator's breath—had fallen into certain transgressions to which men of his great animal development, whatever their faith or principles, must continue liable, until they put off impurity, along with the gross earthly substance that involves it.†   (source)
  • We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.†   (source)
  • He certainly knew what was right, nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently transgressed; but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct.†   (source)
  • Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary.†   (source)
  • I was stern with him, knowing that the transgressions of the parents are visited on their offspring, and that there was an angry mark upon him at his birth.†   (source)
  • The lines marked out by treaties will not stop it; but it will everywhere transgress these imaginary barriers.†   (source)
  • Remember Thy bounteous mercy and loving-kindness which are from of old; turn not Thy face from us, but be gracious to our unworthiness, and in Thy great goodness and Thy many mercies regard not our transgressions and iniquities!†   (source)
  • We all promised faithfully, Richard with a merry glance at me touching his pocket as if to remind me that there was no danger of OUR transgressing.†   (source)
  • He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:—"if I have herein transgressed."†   (source)
  • "But as to these days," I said; "you don't mean to tell me that no one ever transgresses this habit of good fellowship?"†   (source)
  • Treacherous heart, My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn, Ere thou transgress this knot of piety.†   (source)
  • In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I should be glad if this eulogium were merited.†   (source)
  • It will sometimes happen that the members of the literary class, always living amongst themselves and writing for themselves alone, will lose sight of the rest of the world, which will infect them with a false and labored style; they will lay down minute literary rules for their exclusive use, which will insensibly lead them to deviate from common-sense, and finally to transgress the bounds of nature.†   (source)
  • They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions.†   (source)
  • — It would have been a much better transgression had I broken the bond of secrecy and told you every thing.†   (source)
  • But either his success, or the frequency of the transgression in others, soon wiped off this slight stain from his character; and, although there were a few who, dissatisfied with their own fortunes, or conscious of their own demerits, would make dark hints concerning the sudden prosperity of the unportioned Quaker, yet his services, and possibly his wealth, soon drove the recollection of these vague conjectures from men's minds.†   (source)
  • "Woman, transgress not beyond the limits of Heaven's mercy!" cried the Reverend Mr. Wilson, more harshly than before.†   (source)
  • The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws; although, in a single instance, he had so fearfully transgressed one of the most sacred of them.†   (source)
  • She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt!'†   (source)
  • The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.†   (source)
  • But you, Sir Knight, what is yours, when you appeal without scruple to that which you deem most holy, even while you are about to transgress the most solemn of your vows as a knight, and as a man of religion?†   (source)
  • "Yes, I do, when I come to think of it from that side," said I. "Yet you must understand," said the old man, "that when any violence is committed, we expect the transgressor to make any atonement possible to him, and he himself expects it.†   (source)
  • The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely-defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and half-crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor.†   (source)
  • "By the light of Our Lady's brow," said Prince John, "our orders to him were most precise—though it may be you heard them not, as we stood together in the oriel window—Most clear and positive was our charge that Richard's safety should be cared for, and woe to Waldemar's head if he transgress it!"†   (source)
  • "Certainly not," said Hammond, "but when the transgressions occur, everybody, transgressors and all, know them for what they are; the errors of friends, not the habitual actions of persons driven into enmity against society."†   (source)
  • The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities.†   (source)
  • The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things, and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still, the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries.†   (source)
  • For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history.†   (source)
  • But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.†   (source)
  • Then, I remember, I maintain in my article that all...well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed either, if that bloodshed—often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law—were of use to their cause.†   (source)
  • They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitae from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.†   (source)
  • Any knight breaking the rules of the tournament, or otherwise transgressing the rules of honourable chivalry, was liable to be stript of his arms, and, having his shield reversed to be placed in that posture astride upon the bars of the palisade, and exposed to public derision, in punishment of his unknightly conduct.†   (source)
  • "But to become monarch of England," said his Ahithophel coolly, "it is necessary not only that your Grace should endure the transgressions of these unprincipled marauders, but that you should afford them your protection, notwithstanding your laudable zeal for the laws they are in the habit of infringing.†   (source)
  • I say at once there are fewer difficulties in holding hereditary states, and those long accustomed to the family of their prince, than new ones; for it is sufficient only not to transgress the customs of his ancestors, and to deal prudently with circumstances as they arise, for a prince of average powers to maintain himself in his state, unless he be deprived of it by some extraordinary and excessive force; and if he should be so deprived of it, whenever anything sinister happens to the usurper, he will regain it.†   (source)
  • Lay upon the sinner his sin, Lay upon the transgressor his transgression, Punish him a little when he breaks loose, Do not drive him too hard or he perishes; Would that a lion had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that a wolf had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that famine had wasted the world Rather than the flood, Would that pestilence had wasted mankind Rather than the flood.†   (source)
  • The forgiveness, at first, indeed, as was reasonable, comprehended only Robert; and Lucy, who had owed his mother no duty and therefore could have transgressed none, still remained some weeks longer unpardoned.†   (source)
  • Lay upon the sinner his sin, Lay upon the transgressor his transgression, Punish him a little when he breaks loose, Do not drive him too hard or he perishes; Would that a lion had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that a wolf had ravaged mankind Rather than the flood, Would that famine had wasted the world Rather than the flood, Would that pestilence had wasted mankind Rather than the flood.†   (source)
  • Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners will be converted unto Thee.†   (source)
  • Kennicott, that you ain't always as respectful to—you ain't as reverent—you don't stick by the good old ways like they was laid down for us by God in the Bible, and while of course there ain't a bit of harm in having a good laugh, and I know there ain't any real wickedness in you, yet just the same you don't fear God and hate the transgressors of his commandments like you ought to, and you may be thankful I found out this serpent I nourished in my bosom—and oh yes!†   (source)
  • "I am afraid, Natty," said Edwards, when the heat of the moment had passed, and his blood began to cool, "that we have all been equally transgressors of the law.†   (source)
  • "Certainly not," said Hammond, "but when the transgressions occur, everybody, transgressors and all, know them for what they are; the errors of friends, not the habitual actions of persons driven into enmity against society."†   (source)
  • "The unprincipled marauders," he said—"were I ever to become monarch of England, I would hang such transgressors over the drawbridges of their own castles."†   (source)
  • Wilt thou make a trust a transgression?   (source)
    transgression = an act in violation of rules, promises, or social norms
  • 16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.†   (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She transgresseth" in older English, today we say "She transgresses."
  • A murmur of approval arose from all and some were for ejecting the low soaker without more ado, a design which would have been effected nor would he have received more than his bare deserts had he not abridged his transgression by affirming with a horrid imprecation (for he swore a round hand) that he was as good a son of the true fold as ever drew breath.†   (source)
  • 12:13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.†   (source)
  • Perfect within, no outward aid require;
    And all temptation to transgress repel.†   (source)
  • Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he puts transgression to't.†   (source)
  • make me to know my transgression and my sin.†   (source)
  • A Sinne, is not onely a Transgression of a Law, but also any Contempt of the Legislator.†   (source)
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