transgress
Definition: To break a law
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Alice Adams - By Booth Tarkington
...us our transgressions, as we forgive those that transgress against us '; and if he and I been transgressing against each other, why, tell him I think it 's time we quit such foolishness ! "...
An adopted husband - By Shimei Futabatei, Buchachiro Mitsui, Gregg M. Sinclair
...would be wrong to transgress it ....
A Library of Famous Fiction - By Harriet Beecher Stowe
...Well, said she, my sons, you transgress, for that fruit is none of ours ;--but she did not know that they did belong to the enemy; I will warrant you, if she had, she would have been ready to die for fear ....
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
..." Woman, transgress not beyond the limits of Heaven 's mercy ! "...
Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bront
...Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach ?...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...She obeyed his directions very punctually : perhaps she had no temptation to transgress ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...Well, said she, my Sons, you transgress, for that Two ill-Fruit is none of ours; but she did not know that on ured they did belong to the Enemy; I 'll warrant you if she had, she would a been ready to die for fear ....
A Room with a View - By Edward Morgan Forster
...Here and there a restriction annoyed her particularly, and she would transgress it, and perhaps be sorry that she had done so ....
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...who behold you; and as for this one of mine, I will so chastise her that she will not transgress again, either with her eyes or with her words . ' '...
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...Allworthy gave a patient hearing to their invectives, and then answered coldly, `` That young men of Tom 's complexion were too generally addicted to this vice; but he believed that youth was sincerely affected with what he had said to him on the occasion, and he hoped he would not transgress again . "...
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path they would punish him ....
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - By William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope
...It must be owned, however, there was nothing pedantic in their discourse; they carefully avoided all learned disquisitions, and endeavored to be facetious : nor did their endeavors always miscarry; some droll repartee passed, and much laughter was excited; and if any individual lost his temper so far as to transgress the bounds of decorum, he was effectually checked by the master of the feast, who exerted a sort of paternal authority over this irritable tribe . "...
The History of the Caliph Vathek - By William Beckford, Samuel Henley, Edward Denison Ross
...Such is, and such should be, the \* chastisement of blind ambition, that would transgress those bounds which the Creator hath prescribed to human knowledge; and, by aiming at discoveries reserved for pure Intelligence, acquire that infatuated pride, which perceives not the condition appointed to man is to be ignorant and humble ....
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - By George Gissing
...For the Nature of the Universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that they should do one another good; more or less, according to the several persons and occasions; but in no wise hurt one another; it is manifest that he that doth transgress against this her will, is guilty of impiety towards the most ancient and...
Heroines of Fiction - By William Dean Howells
...` Woman, transgress not beyond the limits of Heaven 's mercy ! '...