Noun : I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : Pardon me, madam. ,The governor will not pardon your crime. From Dictionary.com.
Is there a deception in the novel that you consider more "pardonable" than the others?. From Wordnik.com. [Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear: Questions] Reference
All this is pardonable, and how easy to understand!. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Did we but stop here, the weakness might be pardonable. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Lincoln had a pardonable desire to get out of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
In an old nation this intellectual strabismus is pardonable. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
"Possibly not fair, but perhaps our curiosity is pardonable.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
"She resorted to a pardonable little artifice to lure him hither.". From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
All this was said with a show of pardonable pride; and he continued. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
"Are you better now?" he asks, anxiously, yet with pardonable pride. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
His eyes wandered over the prisoner with a little pardonable curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
With pardonable pride he tells how, on one occasion, when a woman in New. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
Then with a hesitation that was but pardonable, and with a shy sweet look. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Hanmer charitably gave up for his accommodation, with a pardonable vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
And who shall say that their self-satisfaction is not healthy and pardonable?. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
But his deception, if only we may judge him leniently, was of a very pardonable kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Yankees, is a thing too full of relish and of beauty to be other than pardonable plunder!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
The sister asks her brothers with pardonable point if they will not go and play downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Dramatic license is a great thing, and it is pardonable when it is used with discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Such a conceit is only pardonable in a set of beings who possess not the delicate faculty of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
But this afforded a splendid chance for coquetry -- a very pardonable affectation under a mask. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
John Malcolm, as well as of General Gardanne, grouped by a pardonable anachronism in the same picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
If this mention seems borne of institutional pride, I trust that it will also be regarded as pardonable. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
A more pardonable error is the confusion of Gasparo da Salo and Maggini, which is of frequent occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
He would claim, with pardonable hyperbole, that he had overseen changes of almost Biblical proportion in the world. From Wordnik.com. [America Changes The Guard] Reference
At college he displayed a passion for pardonable egotism in which there were elements of a desire for public service. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
He had now returned after an absence of twelve years, and the whole settlement was in a state of pardonable excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
This must have been a pardonable hyperbole, for the signal-fires ashore which used to herald our approach from afar were not lit. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Sometimes perhaps an awkward or foolish dog; but those were pardonable faults, while I was certainly a brave, honest, and faithful dog. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
From this digression, pardonable, let us hope, because in the interests of art, we will pass on to a consideration of marrone pigments. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
She had felt a most delightful sense of pardonable vanity when, as the year progressed, Marjorie had preferred her above all the others. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
I had loitered somewhat behind my party, watching, with pardonable curiosity, the adroitness with which a party of French were plundering. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
He had to consider a moment what, out of fairness to Geoffry, he must withhold, and choose what he considered the most pardonable aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
If there ever was a time or condition in which it could be pardonable to "kill time," these circumstances were there, during many long days. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
They escaped safely and arrived in a state of pardonable excitement at the deep cave under Les Fosses Farm, where my Company Headquarters and many others were. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
It is pardonable to wish to enjoy her society -- nay, a harmless flirtation with her is, perhaps, not censurable; but that is the utmost length to which a man of honor can go!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
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