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Sentences ending with fault

Davy, it is your fault. [9]
I cannot blame you, for I know it was not your fault. [14]
If these things were presumed, the presumption was at fault. [5]
I know it was not your fault. [11]
Thus my brother was in great peril lest Ursula's prophecy should be fulfilled by his own fault. [10]
It's all Clara Trowbridge's fault. [9]
But don't be troubled--it was all my fault. [5]
If there is trouble at the Orange funeral to-morrow it will be your fault. [11]
He come here too often--that wasn't my fault. [11]
If she bleeds to death, is that my fault? [5]

Short sentences using fault

He has only one fault. [5]
He has but one fault. [11]
Only not by my fault! [2]
Cowardice was his least fault. [10]
But it's not his fault. [2]
Is it my fault? [2]
Is it my fault? [12]
That wasn't Grant's fault. [9]
It wasn't my fault. [9]
It was my fault. [9]

Sentences containing fault two or more times

There is a fault in it as I think, but the fault is not in the reasoning; but the falsehood in fact is a fault of the premises. [7]
It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king--so what's the use to worry? [5]
And if there be fault in that fact, that fault is primarily yours, and remains so until you show that we repel you by, some wrong principle or practice. [7]
And if there be fault in that fact, that fault is primarily yours, and remains so until you show that we repel you by some wrong principle or practice. [7]

More example sentences with the word fault in them

It is not your fault, my dear, it is Howard's. [9]
I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
But I assure you that it is my misfortune rather than my fault that I have not pleased you,--that I have met you only to anger you. [9]
I don't say you haven't been foolish, but it's Howard's fault quite as much as yours. [9]
The king's judgments wrought frequent injustices, but it was merely the fault of his training, his natural and unalterable sympathies. [5]
He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. [2]
That is the worst fault in a gentleman, for flattery makes false friends and the flatterer himself false. [11]
The Judge is woefully at fault about his early friend Lincoln being a "grocery-keeper. [7]
The fault lay without doubt in his Lordship's charter, which gave to the parishioners no voice in the choosing of their pastors. [9]
You find fault with his history because it seems to be lies. [5]
Or was the whole really so admirable that it would have seemed petty to find fault with the less successful details? [10]
The old postmaster who found fault with Miss "Lulu's" designation would probably have quarrelled with this address, if it had come under his eye. [6]
In a little while--say an hour --happened a thing, by my own fault, which--but I have no heart to write that. [5]
Never a soul, whether master or man, said her nay in the lightest thing, to my knowledge, and this was a plea for the one fault which had hitherto set me against her. [10]
As, for instance, when a fault or sin showed on the surface of a man, whether, if you dug down, you would find that it ran back and into the original organic bunch of original sin within the man. [4]
A Scientist out West has visited a bookseller--with intent to find fault with me--and has brought away the information that the price at which Mrs. Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. [5]
But if it were, it would still be the fault of the minority, for the majority don't institute these proceedings. [5]
But, if I were your wife and you had only property enough for a modest competence, you would scarcely fare better, through my fault, than my poor father. [10]
He said it wasn't anybody's fault but his own--he wouldn't say any more than that, except that he hadn't spoken to her. [9]
Each said it was the other's fault, and each in turn denied it. [5]
Her only fault was that she had not grown with him, and surely he could not reproach her with that. [6]
But while she was struggling not to weep aloud, emotion and anxiety for the old man who, through her fault, would be exposed to so much danger, extorted the cry: "Take care of him, Herr Pyramus! [10]
The world, however, was not in fault in Kit's case. [12]
Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating him, had often condemned as weak and characterless. [10]
That she herself was not free from fault never occurred to her mind. [10]
But this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. [2]
Of course it was my fault --I don't pretend to say it wasn't. [9]
And whose fault was it that he had sent away Philostratus, the best of them all? [10]
But no harm was done; the others rolled and barked too, privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point, and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn't any to see. [5]
As to the vanity, I do not find much fault with that. [10]
You don't make trouble, you don't find fault with your vit--[Dr. Benjamin had schooled his parent on this point and she altered the word] with your food, and you know when you 've had enough. [6]
Well, we have tried a President four years, criticised him and found fault with him the whole time, and turned around a day or two ago with votes enough to spare to elect another. [5]
You are still too rash, but that is a fault which time will amend in a youth of your heroic temper. [10]
It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
Then he also told her hurriedly that the trouble which had come upon her through Sir Heinz's fault burdened his soul. [10]
I gave him to understand that tho' I went to him for instruction, 'twas through no fault of mine. [9]
The fault sticks to me like my ears and nose. [10]
It is fair to give you a seat that is not in the draught, and your friends ought not to find fault with you if you do not care to join a party that is going on a sleigh-ride. [6]
It is easy to find fault with it for uniform respectability and occasional dulness. [6]
Who allowed them to dance and play there all those centuries and found no fault with it? [5]
I am ready to admit that the churches are at fault. [9]
He had passed through life hitherto as white as a swan; if this luckless hour and this woman made him appear as a vulture, it was not his fault, it was hers. [10]
She had attributed this latter partly to jealousy of her, for no one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. [5]
Now, you see, this lady's fault was not in lying, but only in lying injudiciously. [5]
The obligation of this Government to make amends therefor could not be questioned if the injury resulted from any fault On the part of the San Jacinto. [7]
If he avoids this courtesy now from principle, of course I find no fault with it at all--only if he thinks it is principle he may be mistaken; a close examination may show it is only a bowing to the tyranny of public opinion. [5]
And so I think my friend the Judge is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was in Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war. [7]
At any rate, they never found any fault with it after trying it. [5]
Here, and by them, the foundation of my whole future life was laid, and if I sometimes felt it reel under my feet, the Froebel method was not in fault. [10]
It was not their fault that his sense at their comradeship was gone. [9]
You have given the work every advantage which good paper, clear type, and a seemly outside can supply;--if it fails, the fault will lie with the author,--you are exempt. [14]
The gods forgive the sins of the wise, and a man will not forgive the fault committed by a stupid lad in a moment of imprudence. [10]
Was this also the singer's fault? [10]
Now he frustrated the kind Requesens's attempt at mediation, and it was also his fault that two provinces had publicly revolted from the Holy Church. [10]
It is not the fault of the railroad, but its present inability to climb a rocky hill, that it does not run into the city. [4]
He says it's the fault of the Eben Fitch you got me to hire. [9]
This was largely the fault of Susan, who would not be happy until she had taken Jane upstairs and left Mr. Worthington and Cynthia together. [9]
It was not the fault of Mrs. Mavick that the season was so frigid, its glacial stateliness only now and then breaking out in an illuminating burst of festivity, like the lighting-up of a Montreal ice-palace. [4]
Three days before the Emperor, for the first time, had seriously found fault with Barbara. [10]
Inasmuch as submitting the dispatch was not inconsistent with diplomatic usage, nothing seems left to find fault with but the not very long delay in mentioning the fact, or in his making the note "private and confidential," as is so frequently done in diplomatic correspondence. [6]
The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world touched Pierre: he looked at Helene and she too seemed disconcerted, and her look seemed to say: "Well, it is your own fault. [2]
The fault of the bourgeoisie novels, of which Heine complains, is not that they treated of one class only, and excluded a higher social range, but that they treated it without art and without ideality. [4]
His preface shows that the reception of his first book had made him timid and sensitive about the fate of the second, and explains and excuses what might be found fault with, to disarm the criticism he had some reason to fear. [6]
It is asserted that the fault was quite as much on our side as on the other; that our agitators and abolishers kindled the flame for which the combustibles were all ready on the other side of the border. [6]
I am told that publishers are largely at fault for the quality of the reading used in schools--that schools would gladly receive the good literature if they could get it. [4]
I feel sure that Professor Horatio Balch Hackett will not find fault with me for writing his name under this inoffensive portrait. [6]
And I resolved that if I did not further enlighten John Paul, it would be no fault of mine. [9]
You must admit that he is generous to a fault, amiable; and persevering, else he would never have attained the position he enjoys. [9]
My pain in telling you this now is all the greater because I realize your belief as to the sacredness of the tie--and it is not your fault that you did not instil that belief into me. [9]
Austria opens the suffrage to him on fairly liberal terms, and it must surely be his own fault that he is so much in the background politically. [5]
We can only speculate as to where that fault, that inadequacy, is, but we may perhaps profit by past experiences. [7]
The music was soon sounding merrily again in the solemn town-hall, and of all the young folks who danced so gleefully, and laughed and chattered Ursula was the last to let it be seen how this grand revel had been troubled by her fault. [10]
I promise that so far as I may have wisdom to direct, if so painful a result shall in any wise be brought about, it shall be through no fault of mine. [7]
Joan's answer was simple and straightforward, and the smooth Bishop was not able to find any fault with it. [5]
Well, if it shall not, I dare swear it will not be the fault of her who is now your wife. [7]
If Providence had sent him a cotton doughnut it would have answered just as well; all he wanted was something to find fault with. [5]
I've come to see that that our failure hasn't been as much your fault as I once thought, as much as you yourself declare. [9]
I do not see any possible fault in the above figures. [4]
Papa laughed and said it was my fault, he was one of the sharpest lawyers in the city. [4]
The system was right, and nobody could find fault with it; but it did not seem justifiable to bother so many people, so I proceeded no further. [5]
I have some right to assert that Judge Douglas has no fault to find with them. [7]
And we were right about that, because it hadn't anything in it but a wax figure, and any other coffin-bearers would have found fault with the weight. [5]
The railroad counsel retorted that it had been as much Dickinson's fault as his. [9]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started--to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours; but this brings you to where you ought to have started to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. [7]
I do not remember that any one found fault with the name. [5]
The fault was recognized, and now the amendment should begin. [10]
A shoemaker who recently upbraided the 'Honourables' for something similar was publicly scourged, and if cruelties have been practised here it is the fault of the law, not of the judges. [10]
I do not question that the work of restoration was well done, but my eyes insisted on finding a fault in some of its lines which was probably in their own refracting media. [6]
When two people quarrel they are always both in fault, and one's own guilt suddenly becomes terribly serious when the other is no longer alive. [2]
It was my purpose and expectation that this canvass would be conducted upon principle, and with fairness on both sides, and it shall not be my fault if this purpose and expectation shall be given up. [7]
He who is punished more severely than he deserves, easily overlooks his own fault in his feeling of the judge's injustice. [10]
If we were poor, we could not find great fault with these economies, perhaps--at least one could find a sort of plausible excuse for them. [5]
From a military point of view, backed by the facts of history, I conceive that Jameson's military judgment was at fault. [5]
The most knowing persons we meet with are sometimes at fault. [6]
So it is partly our fault, but what a shame it is, the invasion of family life! [4]
Then I slid out quiet and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it. [5]
Of course he oughtn't to go to sleep, because it's shabby; but the finer a person talks the certainer it is to make you sleep, and so when you come to look at it it ain't nobody's fault in particular; both of them's to blame. [5]
Nobody finds fault or feels outraged; no harm has been done. [5]
But it's the only fault he's got. [5]

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