To be sure I was not wholly guiltless, but as it so often happens I must suffer for another sin than that which I really committed.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Is not my persecutor guiltless in this matter?
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
To be sure, many of the lines were guiltless of flies or even worms, but that was a detail.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour