no fault

• “I found no fault with Wheeler Street when I was fourteen years old.”

  The Promised Land

• “Merceret was something older than myself, not pretty, but tolerably agreeable; good-natured, free from malice, having no fault to my knowledge but being a little refractory with her mistress.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “During the conversation Mr. Lincoln recurred several times to Channing's suggestion of pecuniary compensation for emancipated slaves, and professed profound sympathy with the Southerners who, by no fault of their own, had become socially and commercially bound up with their peculiar institution.”

  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

• “No one but myself can know what my feelings were when I was compelled, through no fault of my own, to leave that splendid clustre [sic] of buildings with all its machinery, and its thousands of good customers all over this country and Europe, and in fact the whole world, which in itself was a fortune.”

  History of the American Clock Business and Life of Chauncey Jerome

• “I told you when last we met, my friends, of the important mission from the Emperor to Marshal Grouchy, which failed through no fault of my own, and I described to you how during a long afternoon I was shut up in the attic of a country inn, and was prevented from coming out because the Prussians were all around me.”

  The Adventures of Gerard

• “After his release from prison he voluntarily presented himself to the Holy Office then the official name of the Inquisition in Rome, which found no fault in him and let him return to Paris.62”

  Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

• “It depends merely upon an accidental combination of circumstances whether an ill-formed child is doomed as a ` ` ndodschi '' (deformed bearer of misfortune), or simply as a ` ` muana-mu-bi '' (ugly, bad child); no fault is found with the mother.”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “I exerted myself to the utmost, so that even Mr Stubbs had no fault to find, but on the contrary, pronounced me, more than once, a “right likely hand.””

  The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive

• “It was brought to our attention that, on several occasions, you were seen vigorously screaming blasphemies at inanimate objects due to actions that were no fault but your own.”

  Fictionaut: Dear Mouth

• “I rather think, however, I shall go to the Stacy House again when next I visit Zanesville, for, on the whole, I have no fault to find with it.”

  Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands,

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