English, suspected of being pirates, are acquitted on the evidence of the Jesuits, their prisoners.
Jesuits acquitted of slander by the evidence of Calvinists themselves.
It was evident that Agatha acquitted him, but she asked a question.
It certainly looked as if she had come to triumph over her rival's humiliation, but Sally made it clear that she acquitted her of that intention.
After a tremendous battle, in which these Italian troops of the Florence regiment acquitted themselves with great glory the men were so completely tired out that they threw themselves on the ground to snatch a brief rest.
The American troops, fighting side by side with the French, did their work in a manner to excite the admiration of their allies, and acquitted themselves like veterans.
During the various engagements in which they participated in the last days of April and the first week of May they acquitted themselves with great credit.
He immediately demanded a Court of Inquiry, which was held on board the Niger, when he was honourably acquitted of one and all the malicious charges alleged against him.
Mary, and Elizabeth, led a most eventful life, holding many important offices, and acquitted himself nobly in all.
He was not sure if he had acquitted himself as a man in this unusual trial or if he had failed.
It was said on all sides that he would have been acquitted if he had had the strength of mind to stand his trial.
The case dragged itself on slowly, and little Anna Murray was a child of nine years old when at last the Earl was acquitted of the criminal charge which had been brought against him.
Had not the old Earl been acquitted of the charge of bigamy, when the unfortunate woman had done her best to free herself from her position?
The defence did not come on until the fifth year of the trial, but after eight years Hastings was acquitted and Law's success assured.
The assassin was acquitted by a French jury in December of the same year, prominent Albanians having pleaded in favour of the murderer, and maintained that the Pasha was an ambitious adventurer and a traitor to his country.
Seven prelates were brought to trial for seditious libel, but were acquitted amidst general rejoicings.
He often says, laughingly, that he is under great obligations to Robespierre, whose guillotine acquitted in one day all his debts.
His entry upon the stage at Berlin, and particularly the first parts he was destined to act, was curious and extraordinary; whether he acquitted himself better in this capacity than he has since in his political one is not known.
This gave him, no doubt, the idea of making the Prince pay a higher value for his child, and he forged another order for sixty thousand livres--so closely resembling it that it was without suspicion acquitted by the Imperial Treasurer.
He was afterwards sent to this capital to execute a commission, of which he acquitted himself very ill; exposing himself rashly, without profit or service to his employer.
Nono was borne down the aisle, having acquitted himself as well as could be expected on this important occasion.
The good princess was glad to be acquitted of rashness in her promise, and was once more encouraged to love and to trust, and to give freely out of her abundance.
Emmeline bore the storm calmly, for her conscience perfectly acquitted her.
But the boys were determined to have him up, and he was finally compelled to rise, looking and feeling rather awkward But his natural good sense and straightforwardness came to his aid, and he acquitted himself quite creditably.
But Frank, thorough in all things, had so carefully prepared himself for his duties that he never made a mistake, and always acquitted himself so creditably and with such entire self-possession, that his praises were in every mouth.
Among those who had acquitted themselves with the greatest credit was our old friend Dick Bumstead, whom we remember last as concerned in rather a questionable adventure.
Having attained the rank of captain in the royal forces, Mohun went to Flanders upon the termination of the civil war, where he received pay as a major, and acquitted himself with distinguished credit.
Now, it is your duty to convict ninety-nine men first; then you come to my client, who is innocent and acquitted according to law.
I stand acquitted to my conscience and my country.
Uni acquitted himself so dexterously, that he was called upon to act in a still more delicate capacity.
Papi took him into his friendship at the beginning of his reign, and conferred upon him the title of "friend," and the office of head of the cabinet, in which position heacquitted himself with credit.
It remains now only to tell the tale of how this leviathan of the air acquitted itself.
His first attempt at a larger notoriety had failed, and Dolabella, whom he had impeached, had been acquitted through the influence of friends.
There is a similar example in a court-yard of Ferrara, where he inserted some figures against Dosso's wishes, and acquitted himself ill.
I am uncertain what public works he conducted in Bologna; but he acquitted himself well, for his age, in two histories at S.
This was the finding of the Court, but it expressly acquitted him of all fraudulent intentions.
The other parties accused were acquitted on examination.
We sued for, and obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the municipal court, by which we were delivered from the hands of Constable Bettesworth, and brought before and acquitted by the municipal court.
He and his followers felt that they had acquitted themselves well, and had wittingly left nothing undone.
Captain Cossett, of the Ninth Tennessee, was under arrest at the time, for charges of which he was acquitted after death.
They were acquittedand Colonel Cluke was sent to Johnson's Island, where during the ensuing winter he died of diphtheria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
