"Excusably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... serious matter as this, to tell you what is really in my mind. I can have no intention of offending you, seeing that I am a total stranger to you and to Mr. Ferrari. A thousand pounds is a large sum of money; and a poor man may excusably be tempted by it to do nothing worse than to keep out of the way for a while. My only interest, acting on your behalf, is to get at the truth. If you will give me time, I see no reason to despair ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... poured into her cheeks, and she burst into tears. Burlingham thought he understood; for once his shrewdness went far astray. Excusably, since he could not know that he had used the same phrase that had closed ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... a parenthesis into which I have been led, I hope excusably, by Mrs. Lewes's mention of ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... it themselves in their lifetimes. But it certainly is funny to find the acknowledged "first critic" in the Europe or the world of his day paralleling from private sources the collections which are (quite excusably) added as advertisements from published criticisms to later editions of a book. Intrinsically the things, no doubt, have interest. Chateaubriand, whose Rene is effusively praised in the novel, opens with an equally effusive but rather brief letter of thanks, not destitute ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
