offenceless

What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

What! man; there are ways to recover the general again; you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion.

Act II. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice 1914

I thought a man would have been ashamed to punish the pure self-defence of folk so offenceless as the Belgians.

The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian 1905

That fastens as flame on the sight of them tame and offenceless, and ranged as to die.

Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

She even struck the poor, offenceless creature many blows; and from this there was no redemption, for she was in sad disrepute with Mr. and Mrs. Smith; and, after the young ladies 'departure, she had no friend at all, for I was too powerless to be of use to her.

Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.

Othello, the Moor of Venice 1604

What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours.

Othello William Shakespeare 1590

What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he’s yours.

Othello, the Moore of Venice 2004

Thus Fool offenceless shall lie defenceless at thy mercy and, so lying, sleep until joyous day shall banish thy so virginal fears! "

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

Wood tells us that this poem "being not rightly understood, and carped at by many, came out soon after a pamphlet written in prose and poetry, entitled 'A free and offenceless justification of a late published and most maliciously misinterpreted Poem, &c.

Introduction 1857