It is, however, nothing so serious as you will pardonably suppose.The gentleman is merely an inexperienced "gun" at a shooting-party, who has begun following his bird before it has risen above the head of his loader.…Cited from Perfect Behavior, by Donald Ogden Stewart
We were pardonably curious to see the papers next morning.The affair was dismissed in three lines, and although as De Kock swore, the case was one for Gaboriau, it certainly was not our business to look into it and in fact in a week's time I was back in Canada, and he up to his eyes in commercial pursuits.…Cited from Crowded Out! and Other Sketches, Susie F. Harrison
Parents are pardonably fussy about the sort of person they turn their children over to, so I must have a care.Cited from Blacksheep! Blacksheep!, by Meredith Nicholson
He was not in the temper that had inspired his confession of bad manners and bad morals on Duty Hill.He was inclined, as at such a moment he might be pardonably, to make light of his faults.He was not alarmed when she declared that if she found out anything very bad she would not after all become his wife.…Cited from Quisante, by Anthony Hope
From showing the world's right to the epoch of '76, and sketching the progress of the century in its wider aspect, a natural transition is to the part played in illustrating the period by the people from whose political birth it dates, and who have made the task of honoring it their own.They have reached their first resting-place, and pardonably enjoy the opportunity of looking back at the road they have traversed.They pause to contemplate its gloomy beginning, the perilous precipices along which it wound, and the sudden quagmires that often interrupted it, all now softened by distance and by the consciousness of success.…Cited from Lippincott's Magazine, February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98, by Various
Although the country is malarial, the Indians attain to remarkable longevity, and their women are wonderfully well preserved.All Indian women age very late in life, a trait many of their white sisters might be pardonably envious of.There are twenty Mexicans living here, counting the children; they are poor, and have no house or lands of their own, but live in the Convento and rent lands from the Indians.…Cited from Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2), by Carl Lumholtz
He was pardonably proud; it had been built on Tanith a year before."Has an ultrasonic dishwasher underneath, and it does some cooking on top, at the back."…Cited from Space Viking, by Henry Beam Piper
In other respects, the stranger was well thought of, as being handsome and sedate.He talked fondly of one friend that he had, an officer in the army, which was considered pardonably vain.He did not reach to the ideal of his sex which had been formed by the sisters; but Mrs. Fleming, trusting to her divination of his sex's character, whispered a mother's word about him to her husband a little while before her death.…Cited from Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, v1
May be that he had thought to use me at my best when he suffered this little shiver of serious surmise to be blown across the painted scene.The worthy little monster was pardonably proud of his conception, and explained it to me point by point.Touchy as his infirmities had left him, his vanity of author made him as tender as a green wound.…Cited from The Fool Errant, by Maurice Hewlett
His well-spring of spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion has never run dry for a moment: he still eats and sleeps heartily enough to win the daily battle between exhaustion and recuperation triumphantly.Withal, a great baby, pardonably vain of his powers and unconsciously pleased with himself.He has a healthy complexion, a good forehead, with the brows somewhat blunt, and the eyes bright and eager, a mouth resolute, but not particularly well cut, and a substantial nose, with the mobile, spreading nostrils of the dramatic orator, but, like all his features, void of subtlety.…Cited from Candida, by George Bernard Shaw
Cobb was fortunate enough to get across comparatively dry, but his hapless companion was utterly submerged.The disaster was all the greater from my having on a resplendent new uniform, of which I had been pardonably vain.Ah, what a gorgeous new uniform it never was again!…Cited from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I, by Ambrose Bierce
Your last book has gone through ten editions, and your praises are chanted all over your native land.Surely, if ever a woman had adulation enough to render her perfectly happy and pardonably proud, you are the fortunate individual.…Cited from St. Elmo, Augusta J. Evans
And that bitterest enemy of ours still wore a crutch a month later, when we faced Master Porson before the Commissioner in Saint Aubyn's house at Clowance.At that conference (not to linger over the time between) the Commissioner showed himself pardonably suspicious of us all.He was a dry, foxy-faced man, who spoke little and at times seemed scarce to be listening; but rather turning over some deeper matters in his brain behind his grey-coloured eyes.…Cited from Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, by A. T. Quiller-Couch
Tom saw Stangrave's brow lower, and pardonably enough, at this.Cited from Two Years Ago, Volume II., by Charles Kingsley
And her head was so well shaped and her hair grew so thickly about brow and ears and nape of neck that it looked full as well plaited and done close as when it was framing her face and half concealing, half revealing her charming ears in waves of changeable auburn.After a lingering -- and pardonably pleased -- look at herself in a long mirror, she descended, mounted and rode slowly down toward town.The old Galland homestead was at the western end of town -- in a quarter that had become almost poor.…Cited from The Conflict, by David Graham Phillips
I was pardonably interested in the matter, and inquired of Madame de Kries.She was reticent, but I extracted from her the information that they were hurriedly married again.…Cited from Tristram of Blent, by Anthony Hope
James ordered an estimate to be made of the cost of such a procession, and found that it would amount to about half as much as he proposed to expend in covering his wife with trinkets.He accordingly determined to be profuse where he ought to have been frugal, and niggardly where he might pardonably have been profuse.More than a hundred thousand pounds were laid out in dressing the Queen, and the procession from the Tower was omitted.…Cited from History of England, James II Vol. 1, Macaulay
"Back to the front!" says Ray, pardonably white and tremulous.Cited from Marion's Faith, by Charles King
He knew that she would soon have to speak the dark words to their girl; and the idea of any doing of it, caught at his throat.Reasonably she dreaded the mother's task; pardonably indeed.But it is for the mother to do, with a girl.…Cited from One of Our Conquerors by G. Meredith, v2
Priam snatched the notes from his pocket, and with a gesture pardonably dramatic he bade her count them.Cited from Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett
