1 Prince John had now no further excuse for resisting the claim of the Disinherited Knight, whom, therefore, he named the champion of the day.
2 This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
3 My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
4 She went quietly round to the back, where the bank rose up; she had an excuse, to see the daffodils.
5 Now Connie would sometimes plead a headache as an excuse for going up to her room after dinner.
6 'I do hope you'll excuse me,' she said.
7 You must excuse my sister on this occasion, and accept of our two dear girls and myself without her.
8 Indeed, but you must, for we cannot excuse you.
9 No, indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me.
10 The rest of your note I know means nothing; but I am so unequal to anything of the sort, that I hope you will excuse my begging you to take no farther notice.
11 He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.
12 The object is a good one, and that must be our excuse.
13 'That is no excuse,' replied Mr. Brownlow.
14 Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.
15 She was not sorry for the excuse.