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Example sentences for "guiltless"

Lexicographically close words:
guiltie; guiltier; guiltiest; guiltily; guiltiness; guiltlesse; guilty; guin; guine; guinea
  1. The Cretan dame Rose from the couch o'erjoy'd; and raising high To heaven her guiltless hands, pray'd that her dream On truth was founded.

  2. Perfect in deeds atrocious; would my breath “Before the horrid act supprest had been: “Then had I guiltless sought the shades.

  3. But Cepheus left the hall, adjuring loud, The hospitable gods; justice; and faith; That he was guiltless of the sanguine fray.

  4. My sire, me guiltless from the city drove, “And curs'd me going with most hostile prayers.

  5. Guiltless of aiding in their treacherous guile.

  6. The rigid oracle Atrides bade “His guiltless daughter sacrifice to calm “Ruthless Diana.

  7. Two uncles of Owen, Ithel and Madog, were goaded on by the unscrupulous Bishop of London to take up arms and kill or capture Owen and his father, the king of Powys, who was guiltless of connivance in the abduction of Nest.

  8. Since thou repentest, I am glad; and glad To know thee guiltless shall I be in death.

  9. Cain passes away, and his children fill the world, and the joy of guiltless labor brightens the poet's somber verse.

  10. No, no; depend on't, the man is guiltless of any design of making the shareholders rich by breaking the Sabbath.

  11. May I thus deal with a guiltless and unaccused brother?

  12. Suppose he should really believe himself a chattel, and consent to be so regarded by others, would that make him a chattel, or make those guiltless who hold him as such?

  13. Suppose the slave verily thinks himself a chattel, and consents that others may so regard him, does that make him a chattel, or make those guiltless who hold him as such?

  14. Suppose the slave should think himself a chattel, and consent to be so regarded by others, does that make him a chattel, or make those guiltless who hold him as such?

  15. Again, when our guiltless brothers escape from the southern prison-house, and come among us, we are under constitutional obligation to deliver them up to their stony-hearted pursuers.

  16. A guiltless man to death was led, Through crowded streets and wide, And a fairy child, with waving curls, Was clinging to his side.

  17. Lord, and beneath the altar the blood of guiltless Christians is flowing in torrents.

  18. We feel assured that he was not only guiltless of any folly or error that would deserve such a designation, but that he even overstated the degree of his addiction to the lighter human faults.

  19. Everything was strong and comfortable,--heavy mahogany, guiltless of the modern device of veneering, and hewed out with a square solidity which had not an idea of change.

  20. For there of old had Pagan rites Profaned the guiltless sod, And blood had flowed in sacrifice To many a heathen god.

  21. His clothes were not guiltless of mire, for he had been knocked over more than once that morning, and there was an edge upon his voice as he rapped out his orders to the stockmen who were working with him.

  22. He was guiltless of anything and everything in the shape of dress except for a large ring of horn which he wore on top of his head.

  23. At the hotel I managed to get a dinner of bread and dripping, washed down with a cup of coffee, guiltless of both milk and sugar.

  24. I affirm that this is a sanguinary enactment," replied Mistress Nutter, "and will put power into hands that will abuse it, and destroy many guiltless persons.

  25. He shuddered, but comforted himself that he was at least guiltless of his death; though he had a strange feeling that the poor forester had in some way perished for him.

  26. Listen to me--I am perfectly guiltless of the crime you impute to me.

  27. Thurston, her beloved, was guiltless in intention, as he was in deed!

  28. Tis Thou that crown'st my glittering hearth With guiltless mirth; And giv'st me wassail bowls to drink, Spiced to the brink.

  29. But from the mountain's grassy side, A guiltless feast I bring; A script, with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring.

  30. Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.

  31. But at the same time, I tell him, as I have told you, that not a drop of innocent blood is upon this hand; that it is as pure as his own, and that I am more truly guiltless than those who boast their innocence and sit in high places.

  32. But if Pharold should be innocent," said the youth, "the guiltless blood would be upon my hand, and it would curse me.

  33. Almighty Omniscience, of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, and of making the guiltless offspring more than share the punishment inflicted on the offending parent!

  34. Then with tears streaming down her face, she called upon Heaven to avenge her and show to the neighbourhood that she was guiltless of the charges that had been made against her.

  35. Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

  36. I was going to say vice; but I detest expressions that are so guiltless of nuances, so I will say instead, the lingo of a criminal phantasy.

  37. You are on the brink of losing your style, and becoming guiltless of style, and that is a misfortune and a crime at the same moment.

  38. If haply I have come, the rightful heir Of vengeance: if in me survive the spirits Of those, whose guiltless blood flowed streaming here!

  39. Repine we guiltless in a world like this?

  40. She was simple, pleasant, guiltless of pomp and circumstance in her comings and goings.

  41. And then came the country, guiltless of the odors of gregarious humanity, of gasses, of smokes, of mankind itself, and of the operations which were preparing its food.

  42. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guiltless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    angelic; blameless; chaste; childlike; clean; clear; dovelike; exemplary; faultless; guiltless; harmless; immaculate; incorrupt; innocent; irreproachable; pristine; pure; righteous; uncorrupted; undefiled; virtuous