innoxious

• “This the deluded Camilla thought an expedient the most innoxious; and gave to him so much of her time, that his susceptibility to the charms of youth and beauty was put to a trial beyond his fortitude; and, in a very few days, notwithstanding their disproportion in age, his embarrassed though large estates, and the little or no fortune which she had in view, he determined to marry her: for when”

  Camilla

• “In short, wheresoever we find strength, and in what light soever we look upon power, we shall all along observe the sublime the concomitant of terror, and contempt the attendant on a strength that is subservient and innoxious.”

  On the Sublime and Beautiful

• “Haggis is too innoxious to possibly slander outright, and so it is with pure obliviousness that this scene smacks of both racism and the kind of well-intended condescension he trades so abundantly in.”

  In the Valley of Elah (2007): C-

• “From some peculiar derangement in the structure or, in other words, some deviation in the natural action of a gland destined to create a mild, innoxious fluid, a poison of the most deadly nature may be created; for example: That gland, which in its sound state secretes pure saliva, may, from being thrown into diseased action, produce a poison of the most destructive quality.”

  On Vaccination Against Smallpox

• “Even common water, that apparently innoxious pabulum, when corrupted by the filth of populous cities, is a deadly and insidious destroyer.”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “In short, I have seldom heard of any noblemen so innoxious.”

  Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

• “A slim-shafted palm shooting through the leafy mantle, and swaying airily a profuse mass of fiery red seeds, distinctive in shape, may be the prototype of a flirt, but the flirtation which arrests attention and bewitches the beholder is also innoxious.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “If perchance some stricken Asiatic come among us, plague dies with him, uncommunicated and innoxious.”

  The Last Man

• “That it was not a childish and innoxious laughter, appears from the indignation of Sarah.”

  Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1

• “But Mr. Bowen succeeded in calming his fears, and convince him, that by sprinkling the cabin and forecastle freely with vinegar, and burning brimstone, tobacco - leaves, and tar several hours in a day for several successive days, the infected atmosphere would be rendered pure and innoxious.”

  Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

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