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1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 103 Because, says I to myself says I, it may save them-there unfortunate, innocent people.

1895 J. Conrad Almayer's Folly ix. 184 A man who..took the lives of innocent men to escape the punishment he deserved for breaking the law.

1939 G. B. Shaw Geneva 70 Laying a mine in the high seas to slaughter innocent travellers whose intentions,..if they have any intentions, are entirely friendly.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxiv. 214 Among the innocent bystanders to suffer was Mlle. Jeanne Chautemps, niece of the Premier.

1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 xiv. 492 The Home Guard harrassed [[sic]] innocent citizens for their identity cards.

1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Aug. 312/1 The drug and its antibody may have formed immune complexes that attached loosely to red cells and triggered complement activation, resulting in acute intravascular haemolysis; this is an ‘innocent bystander’ reaction.

1986 Listener 8 May 2/3 The terrorists didn't care much whether the plane might blow up over the United States, the Republic of Ireland or the United Kingdom. The nature of terror is not to worry unduly about the innocent.

1990 Newsweek 16 July 24/3 Gunmen often don't show remorse for bystanders caught in the cross-fire. ‘Now they call those innocent victims “mushrooms”, meaning they get underfoot, so you trample them.’