A habit rather blamable, which is. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
Actions, he observes, can be laudable or blamable. From Wordnik.com. [Hume's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Nor think me, my dear Cousin, blamable for refusing him. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Many events had concurred to bring about this blamable reticence. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Am I therefore blamable for writing a little bit of autobiography?. From Wordnik.com. [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference
As unhappy and blamable as such Persons are, the general Method of in Use. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761] Reference
She is sure there is not one blamable act in his whole course of conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
“I withstood him,” says he, “to his face, because he was blamable.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
He is the more blamable, because there are full enough Old-Words to render a. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
Or, did the people attribute the knockings to the ever-blamable mistwraiths?. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
I have also reproached myself for the blamable curiosity you have excited in me. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
This is by no means a criminal or blamable simulation, if not used with an ill intention. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Though hard will be my lot, to have my credulity so justly blamable, as it will then seem. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
We regard it as the unfortunate but hardly blamable consequence of temperament or training. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
I am only treated as a too fond mother, who, from motives of a blamable indulgence, encourage. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The only human, and therefore blamable, element in this whole catastrophic mistake was himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
What is more blamable, our legislature does not even try to secure settlers who will assimilate. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Though an excess in wine is highly blamable, yet it is more pardonable than most other excesses. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829] Reference
But Mrs. Travers was probably not as blamable in her home-making delinquencies as it might appear. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; nor do I find it blamable. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blamable; but what are the stories which you mean?. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
Although he plunged into the vain amusements of the world, there was nothing blamable in his moral conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi] Reference
One wore the grotesque raiment for which the Cockney discovery of the game of golf seems indirectly blamable. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
The distinctions are so nice that a proud spirit is deemed blamable, while a proud soul is a theme of praise. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
There had been most blamable practices employed; but the market as a whole was sound, and had faced the storm. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
With respect to crime and virtue I was in doubt; I doubted that the one was blamable and the other praiseworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
Never entertain contempt for me, and take care that thou dost not contempt women that may even be truly blamable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
May any make a judgment but themselves who impose them, when the number of such things grows to a blamable excess?. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity] Reference
Pop-up large image among Persons in Power of treating such spirits, is neither less unhappy, or blamable or hurtful. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761] Reference
It's been said the the extreme corruption -- if that's true -- in IL politics is at root blamable on the electorate. From Wordnik.com. [Blago Does All Us A Favor] Reference
But am I blamable if I do a good action, upon account of the happiness which that honest consciousness will give me?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Whether the individual be any the less blamable, because self-love assumes this disguise, is not now to be considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
There are two faults in conversation which appear very different, yet arise from the same root, and are equally blamable. From Wordnik.com. [Hints towards an essay on conversation] Reference
And this is an inseparable adjunct of human nature as such, as it is to be weary or hungry, and no vice or blamable defect. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
But this is not exactly new and blamable on English departments, unless we're going to rank Machiavelli or Goebbels a postmodernist. From Wordnik.com. [Mukasey and Digby Give Postmodernism a Bad Name] Reference
“But though the manner of believing which it requireth be not blamable, yet the thing which it proposeth to be believed is false.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
He is not, however, the only one who can see how truly blamable those errors are in another, which they hardly think such in themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I shed as many tears as you did over the children of Tyre and all the others but every one of those deaths is blamable only on Hezbollah. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2006] Reference
These again are the marks of a wise man, viz., adherence to acts, worthy of praise and rejection of what is blamable, faith, and reverence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
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