innoxious

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All things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The true criterion is, not whether the Government, or an individual may supply the article, but whether the article itself be noxious or innoxious.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

It can be rendered innoxious only by striking at its roots!

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

The species generally are considered edible, or innoxious.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Harmless they dozed a scribbling life away, And yawning nations own'd the innoxious lay, But from thy graceless, rude, and beastly brain, What fury breathed the incendiary strain?

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George