97 Verbs to Use for the Word blame

Now that it's out from under old Daggett's eyes nobody'll ever be able to lay the blame on me!"

If he commits a robbery he always first establishes marvelous alibis and throws the blame toward someone else; if it is the case of a killing, it is always the other man who is the aggressor.

And yet one must force them to what they most desire, before they will admit of itHere am I sent out a Scout of the Forlorn Hope, to discover the Approach of the EnemyWell Mr. Bellmour, you are not to know, 'tis with the Consent of Celinda, that you comeI must bear all the blame, what Mischief soever comes of these Night-Works.

I've placed myself among you, so that I May not incur your blame, O brothers mine.

She took on herself the blame for it all.

Your officers lay the blame on Burnside and Hunter, who, they declare, just sat still half the day, while Sherman got in behind us and would have captured every man Jack of our fellows, if Johnston hadn't come up, where I showed you, in the very nick of time.

"They're the ones who ought to check it, and if they are incompetent, and can't do their duty, it's no excuse for their trying to shift the blame on to fellows who are innocent, but who happen to stand in their bad books.

Him they had seized upon when leaving his ship, although in the character of ambassador he bore the general's commission to them, and thrown into chains: then after the battle was fought, they sent him back, and in suing for peace cast the blame of that act upon the common people, and entreated that it might be pardoned on account of their indiscretion.

" And humbly did the Moor reply, "Do I deserve the blame? Who drops the lance to take the pen, he does a deed of shame.

To kill his enemy and place the blame on the shoulders of one already known to be a man-killer!

Nor do I To fix the blame on others try.

I do not wish to impute blame to him for this, because we are all sure to take up some points superficially; but the misfortune is that he has spent his labour in the wrong place.

Although no reason for the separation was given, the public fastened all the blame upon Byron.

The boys should have gotten the blame, and I am sure that Apollonie will be sorry if she hears later on what really happened.

This accounted for the whole thing, and Karl escaped all blame.

I do not desire to attribute to you the smallest blame.

I understand it must cost you some suffering, but, after all, you must find some blame in yourselfin your heart, I mean, not in your conduct.

This, although it necessarily doth include setting out their faults, and charging blame on them (answerable to their offences), is not the culpable reproach here meant, it being needful towards a wholesome effect, and proceeding from charitable intention.

He refused in any way to attach the slightest blame to his old and faithful servant Robertson, who had caught, perhaps, his death of cold in his zeal for his absent master.

But however we choose to apportion the blame or at least the responsibility for the situation among the various Governments concerned, the main point and the main lesson of it all is to see that any such apportionment does not much matter!

Go! say to the secluded zealot: "Withhold thy blame; for know, I find the arch of the Mihráb but in an eyebrow's bow." Between the Ka'bah and the wine-house, no difference I see: Whate'er the spot my glance surveys, there equally is He. 'Tis not for beard, hair, eyebrow only, Kalandarism should care: The Kalandar computes the Path by adding hair to hair.

" With all her sense of injury, Cordelia Running Bird would not tell tales to divide the blame.

This way of using a man's words, according to the propriety of the language, though it have not always the good fortune to be understood; yet most commonly leaves the blame of it on him who is so unskilful in the language he speaks, as not to understand it when made use of as it ought to be. 12.

And let strong Nature's crimson mark your blame.

"I have long had it in mind to write, but until now have hesitated; for I feared blame, because I had not studied law and the sacred writings,as have others who have never changed their language, but gone on to perfection in it; but my speech is translated into another language, and the roughness of my writing shows how little I have been taught.

97 Verbs to Use for the Word  blame