peccant

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Many of these eruptions are considered of a critical and salutary nature; and the ancients fancied that nature relieved herself by throwing upon the surface some “peccant humours.”

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Is it not always humiliating to be treated like a peccant school-boy?

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Landlord and maidens must be instantly released with full apologies, with substantial damages in the future, which should be extorted from the pay of the truculent and peccant braves.

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Nor did the peccant Lieutenant James think it worth while to resign his commission.

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But her frank young mind had absorbed no evil, and when I asked her how she liked one famous peccant hero, she answered quite simply— 'I liked him very much—part of the book.

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