There are offences which you could commit against me which would turn my love to hatred.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The Swedish socialists had four newspapers in 1888, but three of them were confiscated by the Government in December of that year, and their editors arrested for offences against religion and the throne.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Mr. Whittle has even been known to refer to the book to convict his enemies in Davy's Bend of various offences; and Silas has so much respect for the volume that he has no trouble in imagining that the den in which Tug lives is not only a law office, but a repository of profane, political, and sacred history, to say nothing of the sciences and the town scandal.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe