innoxious

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If, on the contrary, we observe the natural defects of aristocracy, we shall find that their influence is comparatively innoxious in the direction of the external affairs of a state.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

One independent state is declared incompetent to prescribe to another, so long as that state is innoxious to its neighbours.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

I am well aware that, from any other than the human point of view, this proceeding is very innoxious.

From Death by Maeterlinck, Maurice

Or dost thou think the impious wish forgiven, Because, when thunder shakes the vault of heaven, The bolt innoxious flies o'er thee and thine, To rend the forest oak and mountain pine?

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

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