Max Lynch was a notorious crook, a swindler and a gambler, a man who often had been accused of crimes but seldom convicted of them.
Had you kept the money you might have been accused of being one of the gang.
You've been holding out on us," they accused the art critic.
I might as well be accusedof paying attention to all four of your daughters; I am grieved that you should think me worthy of such an accusation.
This required but very little coloring, to be set down as coquetry; but when accused of it, she only laughed, and told them to wait, and see.
She accused herself of plunging Erika into wretchedness, as years before she had done with her daughter-in-law.
Herr von Strachinsky was indignant; he accused every servant in the establishment of the theft, from the foremost of those employed in the house to the lowest stable-boy, and talked of having bars put up at the windows.
All now looked askance on a certain Huguenot, with whom Aubry had often quarrelled on questions of faith, and who was now accused of having killed him.
He has been accused by one of his rivals of too much effeminacy in his painting, and study of minutiae in his ornaments.
Neither let me, poor innocent, be accused of giving license to what a palled public and dyspeptical reviewers will call for the thousandth time a cacoethes; word of cabalistic look, unknown to Dr.
Guess so," struck in Gid, with a grin; "no one never accused you of being blind.
Returning home he was shunned on every side, for the villagers accused him of having deserted you to save his own life.
No one who had seen the excellent rector at that moment would have accused him of sharing in the laughter, for his face was as blankly serious as if he had been at a funeral: but he knew the view which Mrs. Wilberforce was apt to take.
She saw everything that could and could not happen, and accused herself for not having sent him to school, out of danger,--for not having kept him by her side night and day.
Daniel O'Connell's people have been accused of treasonable leanings--but unfairly.
Thomas Addis Emmet accused him of coldness and indecision as regards the long threatened invasion of Ireland, because, instead of steering for Erin in 1798, he changed his plan and went to Egypt.
As result, he soon was accused at the Apostolic See, but the accusation failed miserably.
A short time later, after the death of the glorious king Godfrey, during the reign of his brother Baldwin, who had previously ruled over Edessa, they accused Daimbert of treason.
He is accused of leaping into AEtna, in the hope of being supernaturally missed, and so taken for a god--a project betrayed by the ejection of one of his brazen sandals.
This is reversing the state of things in the days of Theocritus, when the Dorian inhabitants of Sicily were accused of doing nothing when they spoke but "yawn" and "gabble.
It was said that he was accused of treason both by Nero and by Domitian, but escaped by miraculous means.
In the case of Slaughterford (1708) the accused was charged with murdering a woman whom he had seduced; the evidence was very imperfect, and he was acquitted on indictment.
After his return, being accused of extortion, he was acquitted on account of his military services, although there was little doubt of his guilt.
Still he was very unwilling to have to punish Julian, and he wished to pass the matter over, unless the boy was positivelyaccused before him of the crime.
Digby thought much less about it than Julian, and it also troubled him much less, because he had made up his mind, if directly accused of the deed, to acknowledge it at once, without the slightest attempt at evasion.
Motioning to Tom Chandler to close the doors, he avowed to Dick what he was suspected of, andaccused him of taking the letter and the bank-note.
The Captain accused the post-office in London, for it was London it came from, of never having forwarded it; then he accused me of not sending it out with the delivery.
Why, it isn't a beast at all, but the heavy pole Bandy-legs threw over here the time you accused him of wanting to spring your trap, Toby!
The mistakes he made in copying inscriptions depreciated the general value of his labours, while he was even accused of having passed off fabrications on the credulity of the public.
Gennadios accused him roundly of Paganism, continuing his polemic against the book long after the death of its author.
Erasmus, always somewhat snarling, accused him of avarice; yet it was his liberality to his collaborators, his openhandedness in buying the expensive apparatus for critical editions, that forced him to be economical.
The opponents of Plato accused his votaries of drowning the Christianity they pretended to maintain, in a vague ocean of heretical mysticism.
Captain John Smith, who had been accused of mutiny during the voyage, was not allowed to take his seat, and was kept under restraint until the twentieth of June.
Sir William Berkeley was accused of destroying the representative character of the Assembly, of initiating a notorious spoils system, of intimidating Burgesses, of winking at embezzlement of public funds.
They had been accused of usurping the government of the colony, but their records would show that they had never swerved from their allegiance.
Referring to the quarrel over the Bill of Ports, in 1685, heaccused him of exercising "two negative voices".
As a result, no doubt, of the protests of the commissioners, the proceedings of the court martial were closed, and the accused were now examined before the court of oyer and terminer.
He accusedit of going around the block in order to add to the confusion.
Once the latteraccused Don of trying to "ball him up" so that he would play poorly and Don would get the position.
They were accused of influencing the people against their old religious practices, and, according to a time-honoured usage, it was ordered by the katholikos that they should be bound and sent to Edgmiatsin.
Also there was put upon the tomb that Queen Guenevere was accused of the death of Sir Patrise by Sir Mador de la Porte, and how Sir Lancelot fought with him and overcame him in battle.
When they arrived, the Knights told of their adventure, and how Sir Meliagraunce hadaccused the Queen of treason, and how he and Sir Lancelot were to fight for her good name in eight days.
You have beenaccused wrongly and cannot prove it, but God knows the truth.
I only think you could have said a word, before the ladies accused the child of having lied to them and before she nearly had a fit over the injustice.
Now in those days the law was that if any one were accused of treason by witnesses, or taken in the act, that one should die the death by burning, be it man or woman, knight or churl.
When the Jacobins, as they were called, were accused with such precipitation, Fouche had no positive proofs of their, innocence; and therefore their illegal condemnation ought not to be attributed to him.
He has been accused of having listened to a similar proposition at Passeriano, though in fact no such proposition was ever made to him.
The individuals generally accused at the time were those who were violently and perseveringly threatened, and who had the strongest interest in the succession of a new Emperor.
I could accuse and betray him as he has accused and betrayed me.
Even while I write this I shudder to think of the way in which men utterly innocent were accused of a revolting crime without even the shadow of a proof.
Those accused in this way, if found guilty by several bodies of diviners, were beheaded for the offence, and their original accusers received their property.
He accused me of something which I very much resented.
The accused evidently belongs to the latter class.
The accused was excited when he entered the "Three Anchors.
In spite of everything her sympathies were still with theaccused man.
Besides, I'd rather beaccused of drunkenness than drag Miss Grover's name into such a sordid squabble.
But to beaccused of drunkenness, and to have the accusation sworn to, and set down as proved, was as the bitterness of death to him.
Well, when he accused you of something you very much resented what did you do?
Madeline had accused him of treachery to Rufus Sterne, and had hinted in words too plain to be misunderstood that she had proof that he bribed Tim Polgarrow to commit perjury.
Generally speaking, it was, no doubt, true, that the accused was a very temperate man.
Timothy Polgarrow, a man of unimpeachable character, had sworn upon oath that he had served the accused with whiskies on the evening in question.
Gervase swore that the accused struck him without warning and without provocation; that, in fact, he was given no time to defend himself, that almost before he knew what had happened he was lying on the ground bruised and bleeding.
