Sentence examples for my offence from inspiring English sources
Other Shakespearean references to Claudius ("my offence is rank") and Shylock (carrion flesh preferred to three thousand ducats), and the on-screen testimony of human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, are less powerful, but support the point about the commercial dealing in humanity that is then served up as this main cookery course.
Nowadays they appear out of the blue, quietly to remind me of my offence.
Anyway, he cut me down with an acerbity out of all proportion to my offence.
Here, Hayley spits, "Where's your gavel, your jury?/ What's my offence this time?" over a pounding rock riff.
Jadranka adds: "This was my offence," and she pulls out an identity card from the period: a haughty face, high cheekbones, jet black hair and very beautiful.
My offences – grievous though they may be – are historic.
My alleged offence resulted from my book The Irish War, a work in which I had quoted from a classified document, without harm to national security.
"My only offence is that I have an opinion that doesn't coincide with yours.
My main offence last week was to interview a leonine Burmese journalist called U Win Tin, an NLD founder.
No one in prison could believe I was there for £13,000 – 70 years old, and it was my first offence.
