" Hope's only reply was this: "You double felon, false accuser and thief, you are caught in your own trap.

" "But whowhois the miscreant that degrades his cause by such traffic?" "Oh, if you wait until you learn from me, you'll never be a dangerous accuser.

Gelsomina stopped involuntarily until the secret accuser had done his treacherous work and departed.

But the speaker for the defence will bring forward on his side the usage of common conversation; and he will seek the meaning of the word from its contrary; from a genuine accuser, to whom a prevarication is the exact opposite; or from consequents, because the tablets are given to the judge by the accuser; and from the name itself, which signifies a man who in contrary causes appears to be placed, as it were, in various positions.

Riches therefore, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

It would be vain to maintain, that in his early career he was free from the follies and vices of a dissolute period; but the absence of every positive charge, and the silence of numerous accusers, may be admitted to prove, that he partook in them more from general example than inclination, and with a moderate, rather than voracious or undistinguishing appetite.

Brochures and pamphlets were published, in which the king was appealed to, to banish from Paris, and even from France, the dangerous woman who was conspiring publicly, and even under the very eyes of the government, for Napoleon, and to banish with her the two children also, the two Napoleons; "for," said these odious accusers, "to leave these two princes here, means to raise in France wolves that would one day ravage their country.

Next followed the false witnesses, his perfidious accusers, surrounded by the vociferating populace; and last of allhimselfher SonJesus, the Son of God, the Son of Man, loaded with chains, scarcely able to support himself, but pitilessly dragged on by his infernal enemies, receiving blows from some, buffets from others, and from the whole assembled rabble curses, abuse, and the most scurrilous language.

The author had heated his mind with the ardour of Juvenal, and, having the skill to polish his numbers, he became a sharp accuser of the times.

"But I had to let you stay, sir, because you, the sole accuser, are the only one who can tell me what I must know.

"A bluff!" prompted Von Blitz, glaring at his tall accuser.

Nor was the antipathy the outbreak caused mitigated by the savage thrashing that Wesley, throwing aside his dignity, proceeded to administer to the unbridled accuser.

" In replying to the argument that it would be better to lie concerning an innocent man whose life was sought by an enemy, or by an unjust accuser, than to betray him to his death, Augustine said courageously: "How much braver,... how much more excellent, to say, 'I will neither betray nor lie.'"

AN`YTUS, the most vehement accuser of Socrates; banished in consequence from Athens, after Socrates' death.

With mind serene; and could not wish to see His vile accuser drink as deep as he: Exalted Socrates!

If he that were guiltless himself should fling the first stone at thee, and he alone should accuse thee that were faultless, how many executioners, how many accusers wouldst thou have?

Dig!" cried the bloodthirsty accuser, working himself with all his might.

Furthermore, she wished to remove the impression of the angry words, inspired by grief,the remembrance of that scene of rebellion in which she had arisen like a wrathful accuser against the father.

From thence to Heaven's bribeless hall, Where no corrupted voices brawl; No conscience molten into gold; No forged accuser bought or sold; No cause deferred; no vain-spent journey; For there Christ is the King's Attorney, Who pleads for all without degrees, irrespective of rank.

The more formidable accuser was Meletus,a poet and a rhetorician, who had been irritated by Socrates' terrible cross-examinations.