1
Jean de Nantes, for a more venial offence, was kept in irons.
2
A venial offence, if it be an offence at all.
3
The rudeness of refusing a request that is improper to grant is a very venial offence.
4
Such persons would, perhaps, look upon this sort of carelessness as a venial offence; but it is not so.
5
While you are thus apologising for a venial offence, you forget it is to a man guilty of the same error.
6
In comparison with this Mr. Healy's stale gibe at "Carson's Army," however inappropriate to the occasion, was a venial offence.
7
Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight.
8
And these terribly severe measures were sometimes directed against very venial offences.