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Examples
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That's not all his fault if you will, to use the word fault.
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She has manipulated the rules and then her followers have the nerve to claim Obama is the one in fault.
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It matters not whether you are or are not in fault.
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If I get mobbed or robbed, ill treated or cheated, no one but yourself is in fault.
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Many people were inclined to admit that Servia was somewhat in fault.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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I am sorry to say I was glad to find him once in fault.
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When Big Pete told me that his park was “walled in” he told me the mildest sort of truth; the prairie is the bottom of a wide canyon, in fact everything seems to indicate that the whole park had settled, sunk — “taken a drop” of a thousand or more feet; forming what miners would call a fault.
The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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Nora he was blameless, unless his fatal haste could be called a fault.
Self-Raised Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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When a vein of rock which is going on smoothly, is interrupted by another troublesome little vein, which stops it, and puts it out, so that it has to begin again in another place -- that is called a fault.
The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin 1859
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When a vein of rock which is going on smoothly, is interrupted by another troublesome little vein, which stops it, and puts it out, so that it has to begin again in another place -- that is called a fault.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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