What is "unoffending"

Usage examples of "unoffending".

He usually retired early to his room, but seldom to his bed: he never courted the sweet influence of sleep, for he knew that it shunned the blood-stained couch of the murderer, and descended only on the lid of unoffending innocence.

Determined to do all the mischief in their power, they set fire to the house and barns, and then pushed off into the woods, to seek new victims in the unoffending Moravian settlement of Guadenhutten.

To the unoffending multitude their property was restored, and the town was left with a garrison.

Oh, sir, what powers of mind you have wasted to achieve this victory over a poor unoffending girl!

The poem begins very simply and naturally till the Ancient Mariner kills the albatross, a lovable and unoffending bird.

After all, human beings have killed lovable and unoffending birds since time immemorial.

And on this particular morning it was especially disagreeable to him that those eyes had seen him making his unoffending notes, although there was scarcely a shade of gentle condescension--that of a great lord who patronizes a great artist--in the manner in which Hafner addressed him.

From the beginning of the Dreyfus case to the end of it all France, except a couple of dozen moral paladins, lay under the smother of the silent-assertion lie that no wrong was being done to a persecuted and unoffending man.

My brother-in-law is one of the directors of the road, and when he learns that you are going to reason with your brakeman the very next time he brutally insults an unoffending old man it will please him, you may be sure of that.

I could not drive it away, the taking of that unoffending life seemed such a wanton thing.

It may be thought that a direct attack upon the pretensions of HOMOEOPATHY is an uncalled-for aggression upon an unoffending doctrine and its peaceful advocates.

And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life.

Oh, poor unoffending, helpless ones, there they lay, their troubles ended, mine begun!

I shall never call you any names in print which I should be ashamed to call you with your unoffending and dearest ones present.

He avoided mating human and tree, and with self-imposed discipline limited his choice of models to the Island peasants, who, stolid and unoffending as they might be, were effective enough as scarecrows.