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Sentences starting with excuse

Excuse me, but you do seem a little tired, and unless you're very anxious to get on--' 'Yes, yes, we are,' returned the old man fretfully. [12]
Excuse me, Captain,--but what's that? [9]
Excuse me for to-day; there is a great deal of writing to be done for the almoner. [10]
Excuse me, Katuti, so we call the school. [10]
Excuse me, but she is the thorough-bred of the ship. [11]
Excuse me, Mr. Pindar, but I'd like to ask you a question--I've heard the men talking about this in the shops. [9]
Excuse the lateness of the hour, but you can scarcely imagine how busy I have been since we parted. [10]
Excuse this slovenly note in pencil, but it fatigues my head and arm much more to sit at a writing-table with pen and ink. [6]
Excuse me, Vicomte--I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost...." And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. [2]
Excuse me, my lord; my travelling companion, as you have unfortunately learned, has an impatient temper and doesn't like to wait. [10]

Sentences ending with excuse

Orion was a trial, certainly, and the explosion that follows was not without excuse. [5]
Before he went to Prebrunn, Dr. Mathys had counselled him not to forget during the disagreeable reception awaiting him that he was dealing with an irritable invalid, and the thoroughly noble man resolved to remember it as an excuse. [10]
So I had to make another excuse. [5]
I was inclined to blame you once, at the capital that time, because it seemed to me that a man with all the advantages you have had and a mind like yours didn't have much excuse. [9]
Twice Virginia was summoned to her aunt, and twice she made excuse. [9]
At this moment she would have died rather than have tried to mollify him by a word of excuse. [10]
She's young--that's her only excuse. [9]
The gardens were only an excuse. [9]
And we have not the Frenchman's excuse. [5]
Nay, I make no excuse. [9]

Short sentences using excuse

Their excuse is specious. [4]
Hence unbelief had no excuse. [9]
You will excuse me--yes? [9]
Excuse this short letter. [7]
Excuse you these flatteries. [5]
What is the excuse? [5]
I haven't Alison's excuse. [9]
Everybody had an excuse. [5]
If you will excuse me! [11]
You'll excuse me? [9]

Sentences containing excuse two or more times

I beg you to excuse me, to excuse me... [2]
There was no excuse for examining them in it, no excuse for exposing them and their teachers. [5]

More example sentences with the word excuse in them

And now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I'll lay a few mines. [9]
I am sure you will excuse me for remaining in Illinois, where much hard work is still to be done. [7]
If he had wounded her deeply, he had a right to expect her to excuse many things in him. [10]
She makes short work with all the pretenders whose only excuse for appealing to the public is that they "want to be famous. [6]
Again we passed with the same excuse, and we rounded a headland, and the great work was begun. [11]
Manners begs company will excuse her. [9]
Yes, and another who, in spite of himself, has fallen in love with Victoria and would like to linger a while longer, even though it were with the paltry excuse of discussing that world-old question of hers--Can sublime happiness and achievement go together? [9]
The men who were determined that that amendment should not get into the bill, and spoil the place where the Dred Scott decision was to come in, sought an excuse to get rid of it somewhere. [7]
But he likes well that "they do not observe the confecting of the Ointment under any certain constellation; which is commonly the excuse of magical medicines, when they fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of heaven. [6]
His deed she well knew was that of a reprobate, and she sought no excuse or defence; her mother's heart forgave it without any. [10]
That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed and treason. [7]
And this is very singular in this humanitarian age, when excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency in heredity or environment, that the greatest factor of discontent and crookedness, the weather, should be left out of consideration altogether. [4]
Though she came upon the count in his dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to excuse his costume. [2]
Madame," he added, turning to the Vicomtesse, "there is some excuse for my getting into trouble. [9]
It is perfectly true that a woman is her own excuse for being, and in a way she is doing enough for the world by simply being a woman. [4]
Then he motioned towards Peter, and exclaimed to the assembled guests: "Will you excuse the burgomaster for a moment? [10]
Finally, Stephen managed to say:-- "You'll have to excuse me, sir. [9]
I have nothing to plead--no, noble maiden, nothing that can excuse the deed of Abyla. [10]
Please show this to Messrs. Harmon and Beckwith; and tell them they must excuse me from writing separate letters to them. [7]
My uncle's manner to me was now of studied kindness, and he was at greater pains than before to give me no excuse for offence. [9]
No choice remained to her; she must go at once to the hall of the Muses and see what had happened to her father, pick him up, give him help or--if he still were feasting--endeavor to tempt him back by any excuse she could find. [10]
M'sieu' Doltaire say to her, 'Madame, you must excuse our entertainment; we did not know we had an audience so distinguished. [11]
We drew back to go on towards Miss Treherne, when Hungerford touched me on the arm, and said: "I want to see you for a little while, Marmion, if Mr. Clovelly will excuse you. [11]
Give them money to fight with; and the ghost of an excuse, and they: would manage to postpone anything in this world, unless it might be the millennium or something like that. [5]
Macrinus here tried to excuse the spy, by remarking that this zealous official had only tried to set his services in a favorable light. [10]
I don't attempt to excuse myself, Carry, but my sin has been in holding on to my post. [9]
The only thing to be said in excuse of that gardener would be that he was very angry. [2]
Up to this time she had borne with him, and had tried to excuse him, and to think herself answerable for much of what she endured. [10]
Perhaps at another time Denisov would not have left the regiment for so slight a wound, but now he took advantage of it to excuse himself from appearing at the staff and went into hospital. [2]
The first of these clippings was the article containing the arraignment of Jethro Bass which Mr. Merrill had shown to his wife, and which had been the excuse for Miss Penniman's call. [9]
I shall make the quotation now, with some comments upon it, as I have already said, in order that the Judge shall be left entirely without excuse for misrepresenting me. [7]
I swabbed off the perspiration and says, pretty tart-- "I'll have to get you to excuse me, my friend,--_I_ ain't no hat-rack. [5]
They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there. [5]
She still appeared the most desirable of beings, and a fortnight after my repulse, without any excuse at all, I telegraphed the George Hutchinses that I was coming to pay them a visit. [9]
Daily they told the morning lie, and confessed their sin in prayer; not asking forgiveness, as not being worthy of it, but only wishing to make record that they realized their wickedness and were not desiring to hide it or excuse it. [5]
I honoured her the more that she had not attempted to excuse Mr. [9]
In the "Rhodora" the flower is made to answer that "Beauty is its own excuse for being. [6]
Sonya was always the first excuse Countess Mary found for feeling irritated. [2]
They have made the excuse that they have not time, or, if they have leisure, that their temperament and nervous organization do not permit it. [4]
She may have the customs of a depraved country and licentious state of society to excuse her; but I can never think of her again in the halo of feminine purity and loveliness that surrounded the Virgin of Murillo. [4]
Rosalie Evanturel rescued the bottles from the doorstep and awaited Charley's return to his shop, that she might take them over to him, and so have an excuse to speak with him; for to-day her heart and mind were full of him. [11]
The society at the Bolton's might have been a valid excuse for neglecting business much more important than his. [5]
Natasha blushed at that recollection and tried to excuse herself, as if there had been something to be ashamed of in what Prince Andrew had overheard. [2]
The superior numbers that pressed upon you may excuse you. [10]
The excuse was that he had not time to become an athlete, any more than he had time to spend three years in the discipline of the regular army, which was in itself an excellent thing. [4]
He had arrived that day with two companions--an excursion of curiosity as an excuse for a "spree. [11]
Yet there was strength in it too, and this came to her mind now, as though in excuse for whatever else there was in the situation which, against her will, repelled her. [11]
But since it still needs me, it ought in justice to excuse me, for never have I needed you so much as during these decisive weeks, whether war is declared--and it will come to that--or not. [10]
When he had Stepped across the threshold, an inward voice warned him to return, and told him that he must be treading the path of unrighteousness, for that he was stealing in on tiptoe like a thief; but the excuse was ready at once. [10]
She had hardly slept that night, and was suffering from a bad headache, which last reason was her excuse for not seeing company. [6]
You'll excuse me, sir, but it's what they don't want,--anyone to be granting them privileges, but to stand on their own feet, the same as you. [9]
Five minutes longer she controlled herself, and then made some paltry excuse, indifferent now as to what they said or thought, and followed him. [9]
He had been saying in his little talk that poverty is no excuse for irreligion, and that all aid in the hardship of this world was vain and worthless unless the sinner laid hold on eternal life. [4]
All morning she sat behind Mr. Cooke, on the rise of the cabin, her back against the mast and her hair flying in the wind, and I, for one, was not sorry the Celebrity had given us this excuse for a sail. [9]
But, at the same time, I beg of you to excuse me for the present. [7]
A good many said it was all nonsense, and a mere excuse to get away from meeting and have a sort of frolic on pretence that it was a work of necessity and mercy, one or both. [6]
Laura kept her room for two days, on one excuse and another--a nervous headache, a cold--to the great anxiety of the Senator's household. [5]
It produced another result; it gave Samuel Clemens an excuse to place his brother Onion in a position of independence. [5]
His excuse for remissness in correspondence was, "I am a young man and in Paris. [4]
I mean a rational one--an excuse that is not on its face silly, and the invention of an idiot? [5]
No doctrine of prayer or special providence is to be his excuse for not looking straight at secondary causes, and acting, exactly so far as experience justifies him, as if he were himself the divine agent which antiquity fabled him to be. [3]
If we were poor, we could not find great fault with these economies, perhaps--at least one could find a sort of plausible excuse for them. [5]
He was evidently pleased at his own display of anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for wrath. [2]
Give me a pass for the warder, Pfinzing; and you, Countess, excuse me; it is you who send me away. [10]
It was her part to explain and excuse herself; and as he did not at once address her after they had exchanged greetings, she said in a low tone of urgent entreaty: "Forgive me for coming so late. [10]
But without explanation or excuse I offer my services. [13]
Poverty, which is only the unequal distribution of things desired, makes strife, and is the opportunity of lawyers; and infirmity is the excuse for doctors. [4]
That is the only excuse I have to give for the nervous kind of curiosity with which I watch my little neighbor, and the obstinacy with which I lie awake whenever I hear anything going on in his chamber after midnight. [6]
And he went on to excuse himself in that he knew not the art of writing, and had requested the service of the Magister of the young Count von Solms. [10]
He denounces Douglas on the slightest excuse, and would go to Washington when Congress opens to fight with Stephens and Toombs and Davis. [9]
To the noncommissioned officer's excuse that the prisoner was ill and could not walk, the officer replied that the order was to shoot those who lagged behind. [2]
The reasonable excuse of the editor would be that he could not control the elements. [4]
Under the excuse of looking up some precedents, he locked his doors to all comers for two hours, and paced his room. [9]
A thought then occurred to her which was sufficient excuse for disturbing the sick man's sleep. [10]
But we are not poor; and the excuse fails. [5]
For what will not custom excuse and sanctify? [10]
There was, really, no obvious excuse for her coming, not even that of the waifs for food--and yet she came to be fed. [9]
He affords us no excuse to deceive ourselves. [7]
Remember, if she needs excuse, that the defeated instincts of a strong nature were rushing in upon her, clamorous for their rights, and that she was not yet mature enough to understand and manage them. [6]
No excuse is needed for treating this subject in some detail; for, as the German philosopher Schopenhauer remarks, "the final aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more importance than all other ends in human life. [1]
He found it necessary to excuse himself to his own conscience with a variety of cogent reasons. [10]
You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is--if I may be allowed the expression--sloppy. [12]
It had been my intention to smuggle a couple of sandwiches into my helmet, but I was interrupted in the act, and had to make an excuse and lay them aside, and a dog got them. [5]
But I was mightily pleased to see that one of the gentlemen that do the heavy articles for the celebrated "Oceanic Miscellany" misquoted Campbell's line without any excuse. [6]
After all, there might have been some excuse for it, and he made love divinely. [9]
As we neared Memphis, we began to cast about for an excuse to stay with the 'Gold Dust' to the end of her course--Vicksburg. [5]
You must excuse me," said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put at ease by him, "but I hope I have not offended you. [2]
You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. [5]
You must excuse me from reading the entire article of the Washington Union, as Mr. Stuart read it for Mr. Douglas. [7]
You must excuse me for going to the point at once, when I want to learn anything: if my questions are importunate, you are, of course, at liberty to decline answering them.--I am, yours respectfully, C. [14]
As if the matter were some easy task, she begged the countess to excuse her, and remained beside the wretched straw pallet. [10]
His gift for lying was inexpressible: confusion never touched him; for the flattest contradictions in the matter of levying backsheesh he always found an excuse. [11]
They speak of limited commerce united with a social or observing disposition--on the part of the shopkeeper,--allowing, as they do, talk with passers-by, yet keeping off such as have not the excuse of business to cross the threshold. [6]
It flows rather languidly, toys with side issues as a stream loiters round a nook in its margin, and finds an excuse for play in every pebble. [6]
Our old Susan it was who aided him in the matter, so, when he was by any means hindered from laying the little packet on the threshold, she had to find an excuse for going to the little house by the river. [10]
The excuse for it was the return of a fan which Mr. Henderson had carried off in his pocket from the opera. [4]
Several months later it saw the head of the family on the street there, followed him home, entered the house without excuse or apology, and became a daily guest again. [5]
Is it because it is an excuse for doing what she longs to do? [4]
A second woman in the house might interfere with her supremacy; and, as an excuse for her annoyance, she had represented to her brother that Diodoros might look higher for a wife. [10]
There had been in his mind before no excuse for tramps. [4]

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