"My poverty," said the peasant calmly, "will Disculpate them: though the ministers of a tyrant's wrath, to thee they are faithful, and but too willing to execute the orders which you unjustly imposed upon them."
"The Castle of Otranto"
Horace Walpole
He accused himself in the bitterest terms for his indiscretion, endeavoured to Disculpate the youth, and left no method untried to soften the tyrant's rage.
"The Castle of Otranto"
Horace Walpole
He filled the cup by the insupportable manner in which he spoke upon that affair, never daring to admit he had directed it, or deigning to Disculpate himself.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete"
Duc de Saint-Simon