A habit rather blameable, which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6] Reference
You are aware that I am in no way blameable in this matter. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
'Wouldst hold me blameable, that 1 do but take an interest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
Little was requisite: and more than was so would have been blameable. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects] Reference
Cruiser not only extremely blameable but they characterize him rather as a. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778] Reference
No quality, it is allowed, is absolutely either blameable or praiseworthy. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals] Reference
I have no doubt that his conduct may in many instances have been blameable. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past] Reference
But still, if his design at first was blameable, his consistency and firmness were praiseworthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
At lunch the doctor continued his theme, and represented my conduct as most blameable and improper. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
That such a Treatment would be blameable respecting any Individual; how much more so, in Prejudice of. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland] Reference
And here I can admit, that my manners to Miss W., in being unpleasant to Miss F., were highly blameable. From Wordnik.com. [Emma]
Cohn was quite ready to explain further Patel's action, which still seemed to him hardly blameable at all. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
With a pleasant smile Charron laid his hand on the part of his commander which he supposed to be blameable. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Remember, dearest creature, that the fault of a blameable person cannot warrant a fault in one more perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
'Blameless' makes little or no sense, and we should surely follow the third edition, which gives 'blameable.'. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Who can damage me except yourself, by bringing forward a single crime against me, or even a blameable action?. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
Belief or disbelief is therefore not meritorious, and when founded on an unfair balance of evidence is blameable. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
(And yes, I do recognize that by saying that, I show I have a goodly and blameable portion of that pride myself.). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Religious Right ‘Too Busy to Comment’ on Pat Robertson, Quick to DeLay’s Defense] Reference
«The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Public Wants Good Outcomes, Elites and Institutions Should Try to Deliver Them] Reference
If it is blameable in Skimpole to take the note, it is blameable in Bucket to offer the note — much more blameable in. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
With no one to check them, had excesses been committed, how blameable it would have been to have acted so precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Still my conduct has been highly blameable, and while I attempt to justify myself, I blush at recollecting my imprudence. From Wordnik.com. [The Monk] Reference
Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
In short, be curious, attentive, inquisitive, as to everything; listlessness and indolence are always blameable, but, at your age, they are unpardonable. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
These seem to lie in the two greatest extremes of refinement and simplicity which a poet can indulge himself in, without being guilty of any blameable excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
But in this the Master is blameable, in not doing his. From Wordnik.com. [Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English] Reference
Story, when he stands in need of some blameable Characters. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela] Reference
It was a drunken quarrel, where one was as blameable as the other. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
That meant, 'My turning aside to you originally was the blameable thing.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
He will disavow an action that appears to him blameable, but not criminal. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
This was the first departure from sound principles, and one for which Law is not justly blameable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
I believed with all my heart that circumstances were blameable for much that did not quite please me. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
An Audience that applauds what is blameable, cannot justify your Faults by their Ignorance; it is your. From Wordnik.com. [Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English] Reference
With respect to crime and virtue I was in doubt; I doubted that the one was blameable and the other praiseworthy. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
Otherwise, he would be highly blameable; for England's easy acquisition of Hayti could not but ruffle the feelings of the Dons. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
Mankind so strong a Fallacy, as to make a Character in itself most despicable, nay I may say most blameable, generally thought worthy. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks on Clarissa (1749)] Reference
In that way he had proved no 'Saint,' or Divine-looking Man, but a mere Sinner, and unfortunate, blameable, more or less Diabolic-looking man!. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Actions may be laudable or blameable; but they cannot be reasonable: Laudable or blameable, therefore, are not the same with reasonable or unreasonable. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference
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