Citations:innocence

English citations of innocence

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  And, said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace; the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better.

• 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

  Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:

  His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.

• 2023, “Angel Eyes”, performed by Spiritbox:

  I’m trying to keep it
  Any sense of the frame that I have lost
  At the door where I leave it
  Tributary of pain I left to rot
  Take me (Take me)
  Flowing under my skin, I lock it up
  Break me (Break me)
  Innocence is a gamе that I have lost