innocent as a lamb
Example Sentences
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Pulling at the ropes with us, she would give him sly pinches, and then look another way, innocent as a lamb.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
If they talk that way now, when I'm as innocent as a lamb, imagine how their tongues would wag then!...
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Isaac Goldberg
She is as innocent as a lamb, and only thinks me all the heroes in the world.'
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Charlotte Mary Yonge
First you provoked me to bring it out from where it had rested innocent as a lamb for so many years.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The what-not was all covered with shiny things and looked as innocent as a lamb.
From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller
