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  • So Pahom was well contented, and everything would have been right if the neighboring peasants would only not have trespassed on his cornfields and meadows.   (source)
    trespassed = entered another's property without right or permission
  • Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons.†   (source)
  • I've had it before, the sense that even in the course of my most legitimate and daily actions — peeling a banana, brushing my teeth — I am trespassing.†   (source)
  • To him, the dog's a trespasser."†   (source)
  • "Y'all best know Davis, or else I'm taking you downtown and having you booked for trespassing."†   (source)
  • She didn't want me and my sisters to be the first people a trespasser ran into if they entered the house.†   (source)
  • Once your animal has trespassed upon your territory, be unflagging in your outrage.†   (source)
  • NO TRESPASSING.†   (source)
  • Unlike the other bridges into New Pretty Town, the old bridge couldn't talk-or report trespassers, more importantly.†   (source)
  • He spent most of his time on the streets, where police stopped him for violations including trespassing, stealing a bike, and property crimes committed with his older brother and other older teens.†   (source)
  • Every now and then Umbridge shot glowering looks at Harry, who kept his head down, staring at Defensive Magical Theory, his eyes unfocused, thinking… He could just imagine Professor McGonagall's reaction if he was caught trespassing in Professor Umbridge's office mere hours after she had vouched for him… there was nothing to stop him simply going back to Gryffindor Tower and hoping that some time during the next summer holidays he would have a chance to ask Sirius about the scene he…†   (source)
  • I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.†   (source)
  • More likely he'd be shot for trespassing.†   (source)
  • You are trespassing and obstructing progress on a contracted job.†   (source)
  • And not to go trespassing in other people's gardens.†   (source)
  • We were trespassing.†   (source)
  • I got the feeling I'd just trespassed on a sensitive subject.†   (source)
  • But two trespassers are easier to catch than one.†   (source)
  • Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.†   (source)
  • If we were on someone's private property, we would be trespassing.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help thinking of them as trespassers.†   (source)
  • I was trespassing!†   (source)
  • He says the door is locked and reminds me of the dogs outside that don't like trespassers and says to them I would be a trespasser.†   (source)
  • He felt secure now in the territory of the beaver, but he wasn't so certain that a strange people would welcome a white trespasser.†   (source)
  • Park, this is trespassing.†   (source)
  • No trespassing.†   (source)
  • NO TRESPASSING.†   (source)
  • Mr. G says Principal Gupta finally had to call the police, because Albert Einstein High is private property and the reporters were trespassing all over, dropping cigarette butts on the steps and blocking the sidewalk and leaning on Joe and stuff.†   (source)
  • NO TRESPASSING.†   (source)
  • Night animals began to creep from their dens to peer from shadowed hideouts at the strangers trespassing on their land.†   (source)
  • It would have trespassed on his devotion to all mankind.†   (source)
  • IF YOU ARE READING THIS YOU ARE GUILTY OF TRESPASSING!†   (source)
  • One step off that ground and they were trespassers among the human race.†   (source)
  • I started out with the Lord's Prayer as best as I could remember it, got messed up with the part about trespassing, and gave it up.†   (source)
  • I waited for what must have been an hour, until finally the woman with her glasses on a chain looped around her neck—she already had them looped around her neck even though she wasn't even in the library yet —she came walking up the block and climbed the steps and looked back down at me like I was trespassing.†   (source)
  • Hanging on it was a flat square plate with a message from Mr. Fuller, the company, and the steel mill that owned it: NO TRESPASSING My blood boiled at the sight of it.†   (source)
  • They were accustomed to hardened maximum-security prisoners, and their tools were too severe to work with these men, so many of them guilty of the smallest of crimes—curfew violations, trespassing, public drunkenness.†   (source)
  • "Your song," I said sheepishly, suddenly feeling like I'd maybe illegally trespassed into Dad's private territory.†   (source)
  • We trespassing, man," Tino replied.†   (source)
  • And a person can very easily get shot trespassing on private property at night.†   (source)
  • "Seize the trespassers," he shouted.†   (source)
  • Then he said: "I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here, but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host, the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington."†   (source)
  • I was trespassing.†   (source)
  • "Trespassing," I said flippantly.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel bows his head and recites the Lord's Prayer—"deliver us from evil"—then opens his eyes to see two prostitutes trespassing on his prayers.†   (source)
  • To us, though, they were trespassers who might see things they shouldn't see.†   (source)
  • Mr. Cullen, I expect you to ask your friend to refrain from trespassing again.†   (source)
  • What you see is the NO TRESPASSING, KEEP OUT signs and not anything serving people but little people, like ants, serving these strange, incomprehensible shapes.†   (source)
  • Thai's prison property, no trespassers allowed.†   (source)
  • We're trespassing, you know."†   (source)
  • Salander was aware that the legal description of the kind of hacking she did, both professionally and as a hobby, was "unlawful data trespassing" and could earn her two years in prison.†   (source)
  • Trespassing--that's what he had done.†   (source)
  • The trespassers had loitered in the lobby, in the garden, lounged by the swimming pool.†   (source)
  • That was not the only rebuke I received on account of my trespasses against the reverend.†   (source)
  • Technically, you're trespassing."†   (source)
  • They trespassed in her dreams and in her waking moments.†   (source)
  • We were trespassing.†   (source)
  • Why was I always trespassing into places I didn't belong?†   (source)
  • Normally, I didn't stretch the truth to my mom, but in the last few months I'd learned to forgive myself these little trespasses, because they made her happy.†   (source)
  • Trespassers will be shot.†   (source)
  • The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem.†   (source)
  • Sister Ardeth Platte was a political prisoner, one of several nuns who are peace activists and served long federal sentences for trespassing in a nonviolent protest at a Minuteman II missile silo in Colorado.†   (source)
  • On the walls, the goddesses hunt and cavort, free from all restraints, these makers of their own rules, punishers of trespassers.†   (source)
  • Was he abducted because he was an infidel trespassing in a fundamentalist land?†   (source)
  • Let's get into the lane and then we shan't be trespassing.†   (source)
  • "And forgive us our trespasses—forgive us our trespasses," he repeats, sighing deeply, "as we forgive others ….†   (source)
  • I felt that Valerie was looking down at me, angry at my trespassing.†   (source)
  • Combined, you can protect loved ones and precious objects, keep secrets, even harm unwanted trespassers.†   (source)
  • He knew if he trespassed once again on our land my father would kill him.†   (source)
  • Matron felt like a trespasser.†   (source)
  • Hunters gave the land a wide berth, rightly assuming that the TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT sign wasn't simply a warning but a promise.†   (source)
  • Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive others ivho trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.†   (source)
  • Stillman Rush flashed a killer smile at Sara, who was slowly chewing gum and glaring at the men as if they were trespassers.†   (source)
  • The old farm that his mother had left him was ten miles off the nearest paved road and visited only by the occasional hunter who ignored the NO TRESPASSING signs that Alvin had erected around the eighty-acre lot.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry to have trespassed on your time."†   (source)
  • The majestic walls and the glittering, filigreed chandeliers seem to stare at the unworthy trespassers with disdain.†   (source)
  • While he had forgiven Jefferson most of his past trespasses, he had by no means forgotten them.†   (source)
  • Along the trail, every twenty yards or so, bright orange posters were pinned to the trees, threatening prosecution for anyone caught hunting, trapping or trespassing.†   (source)
  • She makes pronouncements that Ivanito doesn't understand, stays up all night hearing prophecies in her head, forgives her father and ex-husband long lists of past trespasses.†   (source)
  • I tried weakly to argue that it was like trespassing to clean up someone's house without her permission, and trespassing was something Methodists were forever bent on getting forgiveness for, so it was likely to be a fairly serious sin.†   (source)
  • Agape, I think you are trespassing.†   (source)
  • I'm no great terrifying Mystic, but my presence should deter any trespassers until our specialists arrive.†   (source)
  • Light entered as a trespasser, unwanted and unwelcome, and soon was gone again; cookfires, candles, and rushes burned for a little while, then guttered out again, their brief lives at an end.†   (source)
  • We trespassed by driving up here.†   (source)
  • Then you know what they call trespassing in court.†   (source)
  • Trespassing, I guess.†   (source)
  • A 'No Trespassing/No Girls Allowed' type of space.†   (source)
  • He didn't mention the fact that he'd trespassed onto the property on Spivey Mountain.†   (source)
  • "Forgive us our trespasses," he said, then laughed, and I suddenly thought of him gripping my wrists, begging my secrecy that day in Whispering Pines.†   (source)
  • He said he wanted to go hunting with me, as long as we weren't hunting on land that had been posted for no trespassing.†   (source)
  • Most folk here got rules 'bout trespassing.†   (source)
  • Obviously he knew I had been trespassing but was at a loss to understand why.†   (source)
  • The bill of sale in his shirt pocket would mean very little to armed patrolmen chasing a trespasser.†   (source)
  • This was civilization, one household butting up into the next one, all elbows jostling, all the land parceled out till nobody had no doubt at all who owned every inch of it, who had the right to use it and who was trespassing and better move along.†   (source)
  • Sad to say, they got carried away sometimes tracking an animal and ended up in the valley, trespassing on farms.†   (source)
  • These people are trespassing.†   (source)
  • His snarling insult of the night before, and his general mistreatment of Sophie, had trespassed on my dreams all night in various allusive masks and guises, and now to awake to behold the same midcentury urban face intoning these hokey antebellum lyrics was simply more than I could tolerate.†   (source)
  • I didn't in the end feel like a trespasser when I came to open the letters: they brought my parents before me for the first time as young, as inexperienced, consumed with the strength of their hopes and desires, as living on these letters.†   (source)
  • I'm trespassing.†   (source)
  • Indar behaved as though I had interrupted him; as thoughalthough I lived in the place, and he had just arrived—I was trespassing, and had no right to know a student at the polytechnic.†   (source)
  • At the edge of dark woodlots facing on swamps where no mortal trespasser could ever be expected, there were signs KEEP OUT: THIS MEANS YOU.†   (source)
  • And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us.†   (source)
  • Again the trespassers had methodically removed every survey marker and filled in the stake holes.   (source)
    trespassers = people who enter another's property without right or permission
  • It's trespassing and malicious mischief.   (source)
    trespassing = entering another's property without right or permission
  • Leaving the river for a day to track a herd of wild horses, he came across a sign warning that he was trespassing on the U.S. Army's highly restricted Yuma Proving Ground.   (source)
  • Now I saw more clearly: all those nights in my bed had been only his traveler's wisdom. When you are in Egypt, you worship Isis; when in Anatolia, you kill a lamb for Cybele. It does not trespass on your Athena still at home.   (source)
    trespass = enter another's property without right or permission
  • Chuck Muckle exhorted the newly arrived lawmen to arrest the protesters for trespassing, truancy, and disturbing the peace.   (source)
    trespassing = entering another's property without right or permission
  • "That's an assault," Officer Delinko said, "to go along with the attempted burglary, trespassing, destruction of private property, and so forth."   (source)
  • Assault and trespassing, too!   (source)
  • Trespassing, obviously.   (source)
  • Besides, we're trespassing in their house.†   (source)
  • The Colossus was raising his hand to swat the trespassing tinkler.†   (source)
  • But the list of suspects likely to be trespassing into the woods is probably very short.†   (source)
  • He wasn't supposed to be using it and he had trespassed, coming into his father's study.†   (source)
  • "It looks like something big," said Brad, the drunk trespasser sitting next to her.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, the whistle alone will deal with trespassing or any other untoward behaviour.†   (source)
  • Once we'd trespassed, we'd have been out of the protection of the Covenant.†   (source)
  • They said that if it caught a trespasser, the div was known to overcome its aversion to adult meat.†   (source)
  • You trespassed in my home and planted a nasty welt on the skull of a dear friend.†   (source)
  • She was not the kind of goddess who believed in closed gates or NO TRESPASSING signs.†   (source)
  • You are not to go trespassing in other people's gardens.†   (source)
  • Whatever had come of it, the boy had been trespassing.†   (source)
  • You're under arrest for theft, vandalism, and trespassing."†   (source)
  • He had to respect the possibility that there were Fremen here and he was trespassing.†   (source)
  • "Shadowhunters trespassing on our territory," she said.†   (source)
  • Forgive those who trespassed against you.†   (source)
  • He had business with his trespassing son.†   (source)
  • She trespassed on our ground; therefore she's ours.†   (source)
  • The insidious trespasser offers no complaint.†   (source)
  • Second rule, trespassing on our territory is punishable by death.†   (source)
  • If I were a stickler, I'd say you were trespassing… Max's jaw fell open.†   (source)
  • The sign which hung from the chain read NO TRESPASSING DUMP CLOSED.†   (source)
  • If she were caught trespassing in here, they'd blame her mother.†   (source)
  • The hard glint of their eyes makes it clear that I am a trespasser here.†   (source)
  • Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.†   (source)
  • Any trespasser found by the guard is to be held at the tower.†   (source)
  • He caught me several times trespassing after mushrooms, when I was a youngster at Brandy Hall.†   (source)
  • We had trespassed too--been where we didn't belong, and we were being punished for it.†   (source)
  • I walk past the NO TRESPASSING signs and the house that sits off the road and up a driveway.†   (source)
  • "Trespassing," said the voice presently.†   (source)
  • No trespassing, hunting, fishing, camping.†   (source)
  • Will you please tell me why you're trespassing here?†   (source)
  • He says, 'Trespassing ain't a crime and ain't a misdemeanor.'†   (source)
  • I have trespassed into his home, the way he slithered into mine last year, hissing threats with his bloody, rosy breath.†   (source)
  • I felt like a trespasser.†   (source)
  • Trespasser!†   (source)
  • Well, Harry, we have trespassed upon Horace's hospitality quite long enough; I think it is time for us to leave.†   (source)
  • I felt like a trespasser.†   (source)
  • In front of it are high barbed-wire fences, locked gates, signs saying NO TRESPASSING, and beyond, through sooty air, you see ugly strange shapes of metal and brick whose purpose is unknown, and whose masters you will never see.†   (source)
  • A night watchman came by and told them to leave, because they were trespassing on the grounds of some shipyard or other.†   (source)
  • He says the door is locked and reminds me of the dogs outside that don't like trespassers and says to them I would be a trespasser.†   (source)
  • Salander was absolutely positive that she had left no traces and that her trespassing could not be discovered by anyone unless a top security consultant sat down and scanned the hard drive at the same time as she was accessing the computer.†   (source)
  • Jacob went to the Quileute school, but he might still get in trouble for trespassing or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • I step around the No TRESPASSING sign.†   (source)
  • But the cleaning took her from the living room to the stairs, and then to the hallway upstairs and to his door, and, the next thing she knew, she was in his room for the first time, sitting on his bed, feeling like a trespasser.†   (source)
  • I hop off my bike when I see the turnoff to Roaring Brook, and the big metal sign staked in the ground that reads PROPERTY OF PORTLAND, NO TRESPASSING.†   (source)
  • The main nuisance of sharks was that they made being in the water risky, like trespassing on a property where there's a sign saying Beware of Dog.†   (source)
  • I reasoned that Father had only made me do a promise about five things, which were Not to mention Mr. Shears's name in our house Not to go asking Mrs. Shears about who killed that bloody dog Not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog Not to go trespassing in other people's gardens To stop this ridiculous bloody detective game And asking about Mr. Shears wasn't any of these things.†   (source)
  • Both were charged with trespassing, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest—she with threatening the life of a policeman, he with striking a police officer.†   (source)
  • There had been a heavy chain strung between two posts with a NO TRESPASSING sign hung from the middle.†   (source)
  • 'No Trespassing'?†   (source)
  • He had, after all, been trespassing.†   (source)
  • I've never seen anything like it—all this life pushing everywhere, growing, as though at every second it's expanding and thrusting upward, and I can't really explain it but it makes me feel small and kind of silly, like I'm trespassing on property owned by someone way older and more important than myself.†   (source)
  • Trespassing.†   (source)
  • And you are the trespasser.†   (source)
  • All three of their heads snapped up, and I watched my pain ripple across Edward's face as he trespassed in my head again.†   (source)
  • We passed all the boat ramps and docks, all the tourist traps, and finally went down a long dirt road that wound through woods and potholes and NO TRESPASSING signs into complete darkness.†   (source)
  • Considering that you trespassed on their territory, their normal procedure would have been to feed until you died, and then burn your body to prevent you from rising.†   (source)
  • "Very friendly unless you're trespassing or leaving the hotel without permission, in which case they'll tear you apart."†   (source)
  • Her trespassing in his computer was not malicious: she just wanted to know what the company was working on, to see the lay of the land.†   (source)
  • Now they were flashing past No Trespassing signs on either side of the road, barbed wire, newly turned fields.†   (source)
  • Trespassing.†   (source)
  • You are trespassing.†   (source)
  • Because the wording of the act was so broad, even activities such as trespassing or illegal possession of weapons could constitute sabotage.†   (source)
  • And then it registered on me exactly which amazing mansion we were trespassing on, and I hurried across the bridge to him.†   (source)
  • Only kill this trespassing boy.†   (source)
  • Attolia stood, caught at the threshold like one who has trespassed on the mysteries and been turned to stone.†   (source)
  • Somebody trespassing, loitering.†   (source)
  • That definitely said no trespassing.†   (source)
  • In fact, Homer's two youngest dog buddies had been out tracking and trespassing for the last two days and nights.†   (source)
  • Not wanting to draw attention, he shut off the headlights as he made his way to the edge of the Coles' property before stopping at the NO TRESPASSING sign.†   (source)
  • If there's any truth at all to D'Ablo's ramblings, perhaps ingesting it would shield you against the Grim Reaper's trespasses once again."†   (source)
  • The sign had surprised Carla since "forgive us our trespasses" was the only other context in which she had heard the word.†   (source)
  • I hesitated when Merle asked me to go in with him, partly because my parents had already told me a zillion times not to hang around there, but more so because there was a big NO TRESPASSING sign on the door.†   (source)
  • It was a point of honor with him that, despite the scandal, he had never taken advantage of her, had never trespassed into her personal life.†   (source)
  • Grasses and real trees and real bushes still grew beyond the barbed-wire fence posted with a big sign: PRIVATE, NO TRESPASSING.†   (source)
  • Fifty yards away, our old friends Officers Wildflower and Sunspot had drawn their firearms and were preparing to shoot us for loitering, trespassing, or running away without permission.†   (source)
  • This couldn't be Homer Davenport, the mean mountain man who was supposed to shoot me for trespassing on his holy hill.†   (source)
  • 'No, I caught 'em trespassing,' said the farmer, 'and nearly set my dogs on 'em; but they'll tell you all the story, I've no doubt.†   (source)
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  •   Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
      Give me my sin again.   (source)
    trespass = sin
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