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Exilia'sPromise, like violent Thunder, awak'd all my Sorrows, and made me feel a thousand Torments, that I accus'd the fair perjur'd
Exilius 2008
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Temper, as mine was, might give too much occasion to those that had no kindness for me, to speak evil of me: And that if to be accus'd, was enough to make one Guilty, it was impossible for any to be Innocent.
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The accus'd stood forth, and thus address'd the Queen:
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Our Theatrical Writers were not only accus'd of Immorality, but Prophaneness; many flagrant Instances of which were collected and published by a Nonjuring Clergyman, Jeremy Collier, in his View of the Stage, &c. about the Year 1697. 272.1
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V. i.160 (126,8) [So vulgarly and personally accus'd] Meaning either so _grosly_, with such _indecency_ of invective, or by so _mean_ and inadequate witnesses.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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In short, they gave him all the immense Estate of _Arimazes_, who had so unjustly accus'd him; but _Zadig_ generously return'd the wicked
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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_Zadig_ therefore, was accus'd of holding heretical and damnable
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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He was accus'd by two private Appellants under Vespasian; when admitted to plead in Senate; he was depending a long Time, but at last was absolv'd and dismiss'd with Costs and Damages.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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And so, when I accus'd Casta, I push'd nothing more, than that her other Accuser should fall by a Charge of Prevarication.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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Besides, Celer, a Roman Knight, who was accus'd of the Fact with Cornelia, when he was scourg'd in the Place of popular Assembly, persisted in this Cry, What have I done?
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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