Famous quotes containing the word accuse:
“This was what you might call a bran-new country; the only roads were of Natures making, and the few houses were camps. Here, then, one could no longer accuse institutions and society, but must front the true source of evil.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Its unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.”
—Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (18201887)
“It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to the Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.”
—Administration in the State of Neva, U.S. public relief program. Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State (The WPA Guide to Nevada)