1 When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 It must be due to some fault in ourselves.
3 Once again some of the animals heard this with a certain bewilderment, but Squealer was soon able to convince them that their memories had been at fault.
4 It was his fault, since she had persisted in stretching his thread of life so fine, so far.
5 I have one great fault to find with Tom, however, which I cannot forgive, and for which I take him heavily to account.
6 They were at fault too, and off the scent.
7 If we do not," said the Disinherited Knight, "the fault shall not be mine.
8 But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca's nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion.
9 In all these things, of course, the authorities were ridiculously at fault.
10 Since, of course, it's not your own fault you are alive.
11 Then at the inquiry, on the masters' side they said Ted had been frightened, and trying to run away, and not obeying orders, so it was like his fault really.
12 So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
13 It was not woman's fault, nor even love's fault, nor the fault of sex.
14 The fault lay there, out there, in those evil electric lights and diabolical rattlings of engines.
15 And she knew, partly it was her own fault.