innocence

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Unto His eyes He held it there, To teach it gazing debonair With memory of what, perdie, A God's young innocences were.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

Or he would sit down by that young gentleman's side and shake him out of his little innocences and complacencies, and turn all his little jokes into his own incomprehensible humour.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

Cunning pit for gazers' senses, Overstrewn with innocences!

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis

Fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Its misfortunes, its infirmities, its innocences were counted to it as sins.

From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May