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In those days it pleased me, and it pleased the priest ... and so I did not think I was sinning, and neither did he.

From Time Magazine Archive

I knew that I was sinning against the 'tone' of the great Public School; you may imagine how deeply I felt the guilt of such an offence as that!

From The Secret Glory by Machen, Arthur

And how black and dastardly would his guilt have seemed if once he had ventured to remember what unexampled friendship he was sinning against!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

He became thoroughly ashamed of himself in even attempting to make the man understand that he was sinning against good taste.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

She strove the neighbourhood to please With manners wondrous winning; And never follow’d wicked ways— Unless when she was sinning.

From An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize by Caldecott, Randolph