"Self-accusation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confessions of crimes which Holden intimated he had committed. Had she done so, she might have felt alarm at being thus alone with him. But his presence, so far from inspiring her with terror, had something unaccountable of attraction. His self-accusation she considered exaggerations of a morbid fancy that converted common errors into unpardonable sins. Hers was a charity that could think no evil, and in her imagination she had long since formed a theory that, to her pure mind, ...
— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams
... drawn into an implied self-accusation prevented him from pressing the business further. He endeavoured to be civil, said that Priggins must have mistaken the person of Eustace, or have given him a false account. He believed him to be a worthless liar, and ...
— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West
... he did not think of himself, except that he suffered from self-accusation. He blamed himself for neglecting to bring a needful supply of water. He was the cause of the sufferings of all the rest. He felt sad and humbled on account ...
— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid |
