Impunity

Examples

• Where the punishment is excessive, it is frequently necessary to prefer impunity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Questions that would have been resented in others she could ask with impunity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But surely, said she, I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Because he is not free to show himself and to speak for himself, you would let such people insult him with impunity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What right had I to decide, in my poor mortal ignorance of the future, that this man, too, must escape with impunity because he escaped ME? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite chose to keep the Diamond, he might do so with perfect impunity. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Emboldened by the impunity which had hitherto attended her questions, she went a little further. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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