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Examples
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"What secrecy?" said Hadfield with an air of injured in - nocence.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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We returned to New York, and I supposed that Henry had given up all idea of attempting to "prove his in - nocence;" indeed we had no conversation about the kidnapping affair for several weeks.
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Abbott, L. A. 1870
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Adam, in his primitive state of in - nocence, stood in need of a divine revelation, to teach him what fruits of the earth he might use for food: what business he might pursue; what day he might rest from labour, and how he might spend that day of rest.
Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812
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Take for example his portraits of In - nocence and Folly, painted with the delicate simplicity and tenderness of Corregio.
The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq: With Remarks on Epistolary Writers William Hayley , William Cowper 1812
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An upright judge would have acquitted this illus - trious prisoner after he had acknowledged his in - nocence.
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Where ir. nocence triumph'd to blefs In Patty, unconfeious of art
Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796
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His admiration of the beautiful and innocent, is only the effedl of eagernefs to gratify his filthy paffion, by th& ruin of beauty and in* nocence.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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The satisfaction arising from a coRsciousnefs of in - nocence, are not of a fugitive kind: Thtyr will sup - port us in the midst of the most trying calamities of human life.
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Jenny offered to make proteflations of her in - nocence; but the tempefl was too high for her to be heard.
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Whereas the wicked are reprefented as equally furprifed at the cenfure our Lord paries upon them, and infift upon their in - nocence; faying, When faw we thee an hungred, or thirjiy, or a Jl ranger, or nakc-1 \ or Jick, or in pri/on, and did not minifler unto thee.
Discourses on various subjects, including several on particular occasions 1787
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