Blamed

Examples

• Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Villard has often been blamed and severely criticised, but he was not the only one to blame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Men are not blamed for such evil actions as they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may be their consequences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Men are less blamed for such evil actions, as they perform hastily and unpremeditately, than for such as proceed from thought and deliberation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He blamed me instinctively as the cause of the trouble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He is blamed, and it would seem that he is rightly blamed, for conducting the war and the ensuing peace negotiations on strictly party lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And luxury and softness are blamed, because they relax and weaken this same creature, and make a coward of him? Plato. The Republic.
• I suppose you can't be blamed for not wanting to go back to the front. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He had denounced the slave trade fiercely, and blamed the home government for interfering with colonial attempts to end it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But I thought you blamed me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She blamed herself for what had happened, and only herself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Caroline, when she knew all, acknowledged that Miss Mann was rather to be admired for fortitude than blamed for moroseness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• George, says the old girl, you are not so much to be blamed, on full consideration, except for ever taking this business without the means. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was not Madame Beck's fault, said I; it is no living being's fault, and I won't hear any one blamed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• How can people be blamed for laughing at such pretensions, and believing that even if such a thing were true it was more fit for an exposition than for public use? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Moslem teachers and the Brahmins were alike alarmed, and the British were blamed for the progress of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With the healthy shame of a child, she blamed herself for her keenness of sight, in perceiving that all was not as it should be there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was himself he blamed for not speaking, said Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You blamed me for coming? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He blamed himself exceedingly and told me in the most generous manner that he had been very wrong and that he begged my pardon a thousand times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I blamed none of those who repulsed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Perhaps; but I have always been blamed for thinking of prospects, and not settling to anything. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is not to be blamed for being in need, poor love. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Maltese puppy was not offered to Celia; an omission which Dorothea afterwards thought of with surprise; but she blamed herself for it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have never blamed you, and I never shall. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And men are blamed for pride and bad temper when the lion and serpent element in them disproportionately grows and gains strength? Plato. The Republic.

Edited by Bridget