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'You want recruits here? said Polson, and the Sergeant, finding that he had been betrayed into a sign of respect for one who was willing to become his own inferior, answered him with a scowling ill-temper. 'Yes! he snapped. 'Wait there till the orderly room is opened. The young man was too full of his own concerns to take offence at a tone. He sat down quietly and waited.
If, in addition to facility for offence, Nature has so placed a country that it has easy access to the high sea itself, while at the same time it controls one of the great thoroughfares of the world's traffic, it is evident that the strategic value of its position is very high. Such again is, and to a greater degree was, the position of England.
Does anyone know why such a sense of horrible embarrassment creeps over some people when their conversation takes the least tinge of religion people who are wonderfully self-possessed on all other themes? "Well," said Ruth, in haste and confusion, "I merely inquired; I mean no offence, certainly; will you have a tract?"
"But why didn't you look fur her to larn whether she was in sight or was liable to hear your shocking words?" "Didn't think of it." "Your reply only aggervates the offence. If any man feels that he must swear or bust, he must bust, purvided the little one is in sight; or he must hold in till he can climb on top of the rocks, or creep among the foothills where he's sure of being alone.
Men strove to fortify each other in their evil opinion of the King of England, and vindicated the offence which each had taken, by putting the most severe construction upon circumstances the most trifling; and all this, perhaps, because they were conscious of an instinctive reverence for the heroic monarch, which it would require more than ordinary efforts to overcome.
Take, for example, the crime of unlawfully knowing a girl under the age of sixteen years, even with consent. Assume that with her invitation the man committed himself. Go further, and establish the sin of incest. The latter sin ought to be totally ignored in dealing with the statutory offence.
I've made a plaster cast of one of the prints. I've got it here in my pocket where I intend to keep it until I clear the whole case up and turn in my report." Graham's tone was shocked and discouraged. "What more do you want? Why haven't you arrested him?" In this room the detective's satisfied chuckle was an offence. "No good detective would ask that, Mr. Graham. I want my report clean.
For prudence, according to the custom we had adopted, we wore our swords by our sides, at which, as they appeared rather more for ornament than use, the Indians were not likely to take offence. One of the Indians, who had come to our camp the previous evening, was, we discovered, their chief, by name Ocuno, or the Yellow Wolf.
'I'll give it you, said Miss Ponsonby; 'were you not going away after having only kissed my hand? 'Oh, said the general, 'if that is my offence, I will soon make you reparation, and instantly gave her a hearty smack on the lips, which ceremony he never forgot to repeat after dining with her on subsequent occasions."
For his own sake, he said, he never called her names, nor gave her the lie. I must here observe, that it is the greatest offence you can give any one in England to say to him, YOU LIE. To be called a LIAR is a still greater affront, and you ARE A DAMNED LIAR, is the very acme of vulgar abuse.