A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
"Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus"
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Thus all dispensers of worldly justice were in his eyes as culpable as those they condemned, and their air of guiltlessness appeared to him hypocritical and pharisaical.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche
He could honestly protest his guiltlessness, and would smilingly leave the case to go its ways.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith