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  • We might even throw off the servitude that presently allows 'our leaders 'to inhabit our same world unhung and unreproached just so long as they inflict their iniquities on innocents other than ourselves.

    'Leaders', and what to do about them 2008

  • Which is the noble character for ages to admire -- yon fribble dancing in lace and spangles, or yonder hero who sheathes his sword after a life of spotless honor, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory?

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

  • The bank had not been to blame, but it had to take the lake's repinings, while the real culprit went free and unreproached.

    Purple Springs 1921

  • There are some who consider that the greatest scene in history -- the hero sheathing his sword "after a life of spotless honor, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory."

    American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • And slipping my arm round the waist of the first disengaged girl -- we were not then, mind you, in Atlantic City -- I kissed her dimpling cheek unreproached, and gaily followed in the drift of humanity, trending with a low hum of pleasure towards the great white terraces under the palace porch.

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • When he did it, Isaac meant to take him back instantly, unquestioned, unreproved and unreproached.

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

  • And slipping my arm round the waist of the first disengaged girl -- we were not then, mind you, in Atlantic City -- I kissed her dimpling cheek unreproached, and gaily followed in the drift of humanity, trending with a low hum of pleasure towards the great white terraces under the palace porch.

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • And while Andrew, now unreproached, frowned, pencil in hand and notebook by his side, over the strategics of the Franco-Prussian War,

    The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

  • I should let its few small offences go unsummoned and unreproached.

    Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • These men have all sustained unreproached reputations, and retained through their long lives the full confidence of the people of their respective States.

    The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870

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