My sister should more properly have done it; but she having failed, I consider myself answerable for her debts.

Perhaps he expected it, perhaps he had learned the art of the wild beast so that his body was answerable to his swiftest wish.

"The tribunal shall authorise the generals commanding in Cyprus or in Candia, in the event of its being for the welfare of the Republic, to cause any patrician or other influential person in either of those Venetian provinces to disappear, or to be assassinated secretly, if such a measure should conscientiously appear to them indispensable; but they shall be answerable before God for it.

The front of the house alone was dressed with a handful of English servants nominally under the man Nogam, but actually, like him, answerable in the last instance to Shaik Tsin.

It would indeed be grievous injustice if this writer's reputation should be injured by the occasional unsoundness of opinion in writers whom it is more than probable he may never have read, and for whose sentiments he ought no more to be made answerable than the compiler of Lackington's Catalogue, from which it is not unlikely that his own was abridged.

And by mine eye, that once was answerable Unto that sun, but now's extinguished MEN.

It is to them that I hold myself answerable as a moral agent for a free and conscientious discharge of the duties which they have imposed upon me.

I will be answerable with my life for her singing, and her doing credit to my recommendation....

It acknowledged that a man is answerable at his own peril for having found or lost the truth.