innocent as a lamb

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I dont mean morally innocent: everybody who reads your articles knows youre as innocent as a lamb.

From Fanny's First Play by Shaw, Bernard

There was a little laugh at this, which made the owner of the latter name turn sharply and fiercely upon the nearest boy, who shut his mouth instantly and looked as innocent as a lamb.

From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles

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 Melville, Herman

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 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