innoxious
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It looked so innoxious that she plucked some fruit, ate it, took some water in the hollow of her hands and drank.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
It can be rendered innoxious only by striking at its roots!
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Upon which, with his eyes fixed and frightfully staring, he expired; exhibiting, even after death, a ghastly spectacle of innoxious tyranny.
Or dost thou think the impious wish forgiven, Because, when thunder shakes the vault of heaven, The bolt innoxious flies o'er thee and thine, To rend the forest oak and mountain pine?
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
Harmless they dozed a scribbling life away, And yawning nations own'd the innoxious lay, But from thy graceless, rude, and beastly brain, What fury breathed the incendiary strain?
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George