small sin
Example Sentences
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When people care enough about history to study and read it, it’s a small sin to lie and mislead in dramas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2017
No man to avoid the wages of small sin, Dreamboat Presley had a friend show up in court two days later with the fine money: $20.50.
From Time Magazine Archive
For, in the very course of probing the children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he was addicted to at least one small sin, according to former British Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Carlyle, Shelly, Bossuet, Mirabeau and Moliere, the editor of La Sentinelle perpetrated many a small sin against the rules of grammar and certainly paid but a halting attention to the nice distinctions of punctuation.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
