Accused

Examples

• I have always been accused of being immoderate and saying too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Poor, poor girl, is she the accused? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She indeed requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A great fire had burnt a large part of Rome, and the new sect was accused of causing this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Meyler's greatest enemy never accused him yet of uttering an untruth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I looked with interest upon this man, who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She might have waited till he openly accused her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Some said, that the Vincys had behaved scandalously, that Mr. Vincy had threatened Wrench, and that Mrs. Vincy had accused him of poisoning her son. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The citizen here indicated nodded his head, and added: He is accused by Saint Antoine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Arius, for example, is accused of heretical opposition because he was not appointed Bishop of Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The purser was accused of stealing an overcoat from stateroom No. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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