Punch always had a number of butts on hand-men whom he attacked for their Delinquencies, real or imaginary, or whom on account of idiosyncrasies he thought to be fair game, just for the fun of it.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Mrs. Van Buren was not to be stopped, and at last, when she had pretty fully set before Richard his own and his mother's Delinquencies, she turned fiercely on her sister, demanding if she had not said "so and so" with regard to Ethie's home in the West.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
Lyte wrote of his friend: "He died happy under the belief that though he had deeply erred, there was One whose death and sufferings would atone for his Delinquencies, and that he was forgiven and accepted for His sake."
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden