The doctrine that pardon comes not by a cheap and painless overlooking of transgression, as a thing indifferent, but by the transfer of its consequences to a victim divinely chosen, could not easily find clearer expression than in this word.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Well, my dear, as this is practically your first transgression, I am the last person to be over-hard.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
In a strange process of self-consciousness she has realized at once the moral and the natural consequences of her transgression; the lost peace of conscience, the lost morning of her love.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr