1 My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer.
2 I have been more pained," said she, "by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the most perfect conviction of his unworthiness can do.
3 I acquit Edward of essential misconduct.
4 I rose with all alacrity, to acquit myself of this commission.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME 5 So they always acquit; and then a man goes in the night, with a hundred masked cowards at his back and lynches the rascal.
6 I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.
7 Her heart and her judgment were equally against Edmund's decision: she could not acquit his unsteadiness, and his happiness under it made her wretched.
8 Before taking his departure, the Sergeant, in order to acquit his policeman's conscience, discharged his gun in the direction of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION 9 The right to acquit people is a major privilege and our judges don't have it, but they do have the right to free people from the indictment.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 10 Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.
11 A score or so of years ago, that woman was tried at the Old Bailey for murder, and was acquitted.
12 This acquitted young woman and Provis had a little child; a little child of whom Provis was exceedingly fond.
13 They were veterans now, veterans of brief service, but veterans just the same, and they had acquitted themselves well.
14 He was captured, tried by a white judge and jury, that acquitted him of the charge.
15 The case went to the courts, an Afro-American lawyer defended the men and they were acquitted.