innocent as a lamb

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She was innocent as a lamb, and as disinterested.'

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Oh, o' course, you're innocent as a lamb!

From I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Miss Ivy, you're a real good girl, I know, and as innocent as a lamb.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various

He stood looking at me a long time; then he slipped the collar over his head and came trotting back, innocent as a lamb, without the sled.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Carleton, Clifford

But I will say for William that he was as innocent as a lamb of any carnal intentions in these improvements.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra