Mrs. Roger having exhausted her powers of palliation over. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
This can admit of no justification or palliation whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
There is no palliation in the pretense that the blockade above was. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Surely, it is some palliation of the course of the deluded masses of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He was quite content, that for the prevention and palliation of the evil. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
It is a Greek tragedy, unrelieved, to be taken or left without palliation. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Perhaps I might make out a case of palliation; but -- shall I speak ingenuously?. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Mr. Davis's 'palliation and excuse' for the non-payment of these bonds was: 1st. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I had committed in loving her too well to forsake her, admitted of no palliation. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The most that can be said in palliation of this custom is, that almost always such. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The slave's willingness to be a slave is no palliation of the slaveholder's guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
It may be said by way of palliation that the "still hunt" was then new in politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The only method of treatment that can be practised, therefore, is that of palliation. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Somehow she felt that she owed him some palliation for the rudeness she had exercised. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
"It affords no palliation," sharply responds the Judge, his face crimsoning with blushes. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
And herein comes in crookedly and dangerously a palliation of a great part of ceremonial magic. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
There was no palliation of the offence, which she surveyed from her high stand-point of justice alone. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin] Reference
But he who habitually withholds from his dependents sufficient sustenance, can plead no such palliation. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The offence charged is one of a fatal, devastating, and, beyond all power of palliation, most horrid character. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel.] Reference
And it is small palliation, that under similar circumstances, the armies of all nations have acted in like manner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
So far as the latter is true, it is the only palliation that can be offered for opposing the freedom of the ballot. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
She could study over her lameness, she could in the dull course of time think out the broomstick way of palliation. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
But in the instance which is now stated by the intended self-murderer, there is no attempt at palliation of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
On which side may palliation be pleaded, and which party may most reasonably claim an abatement of the rigors of law?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
This is the language of a stricken conscience, seeking for the palliation of its own acts by charging guilt upon others. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
But this is merely an introduction, not to a palliation of, but the approbation and praise of a glaring defect in Turner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Where, then, I would ask, is the warrant, the justification, or the palliation of American Slavery from Hebrew servitude?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
There was only palliation, morphine, heroin, Molly's route, assuming the pharmaceutical cupboards hadn't already been looted. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
We cheerfully accede to them all of palliation which may be found in the provocations incident to the wretched system of apprenticeship. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
There could be no explanation, no palliation of the trick I had played, which would allow me to retire with a resemblance of countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
He apologises for mentioning any evil report of either king or duke, but urges his duty as historian to tell the truth without palliation. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
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