Jiffin had not seen Afy for some days--had never been able to come across her since the trial at Lynneborough. Every evening had he danced attendance at her lodgings, but could not get admitted. "Not at home--not at home," was the invariable answer, though Afy might be sunning herself at the window in his very sight. Jiffin, throwing off as best he could the temporary disappointment, was in an ecstasy of admiration, for he set it all down to Afy's retiring modesty on the approach of the nuptial day. "And they could try to calumniate her!" he indignantly replied.英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
After all the accused parties had remained for upwards of six months in the Bastille, the trial commenced. The depositions of the witnesses having been heard, Cagliostro, as the principal culprit, was first called upon for his defence. He was listened to with the most breathless attention. He put himself into a theatrical attitude, and thus began:-- "I am oppressed! -- I am accused! -- I am calumniated! Have I deserved this fate? I descend into my conscience, and I there find the peace that men refuse me!英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-3》
No, no; it was a thief who calumniated me. Having broken into a英文原著 · 《Plutus》
220-227. I am surprised it does not end with the statement that she is to become a Buddha. [14] See E. H., p. Hsuan-chwang does not give the name of this murderer; see in Julien's "Vie et Voyages de Hiouen-thsang," p. 125,-- "a heretical Brahman killed a woman and calumniated Buddha." See also the fuller account in Beal's "Records of Western Countries," pp. 7, 8, where the murder is committed by several Brahmacharins. In this passage Beal makes Sundari to be the name of the murdered person (a harlot).英文原著 · 《Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms》