His plan was to whip for the smallest offences, to prevent the commission of large ones.

Did he not, contrary to form of law, Devise strange deaths for small offences done?

The smallest offences, for example, will be punished by a fine and perhaps confiscation (of drugs).

He was 29 at the time, and had already been convicted six times for smaller offences.

Homosexual acts are cited as a small offence punishable by a fine.

Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offence might rankle.

Such are the small offences which produce deep danger to the great!

But am I to be punished with such severity for so small an offence?

In that way, the famous small offences like the stolen piglet would not be so much of a problem.

On the pavements, pedestrians bump into each other rather than step aside, and small offences turn quickly into shouting matches.