And he smiled, holding his hand, and quitted Durtal, who asked himself whether, in acting thus, the Trappist were not wishing to inflict on himself some corporal punishment to atone for some distraction the evening before; some peccadillo.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Finally, as to what is commonly called pleasure, he may have shared the fashions and even the vices of his age; but we know hardly anything on the subject, except that excess in wine, which is often held a pardonable peccadillo in a poet, receives his emphatic condemnation.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
This peccadillo of his did not disturb me much; he deserved as captain a larger share than the others.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley