But he chiefly strove to justify the conduct of Louis XVI.

But why, Louisa, should you suppose it necessary to justify the conduct of Mrs. Clifton to me?

Their sympathy for the exiles, however, is whimsically enough contrasted by an orthodox anxiety to justify the conduct of their own government.

The story is as distinctly intended to inform Northern ignorance and to remove Northern prejudice as it is to justify the conduct of abolitionists.

He referred to "l'affaire Flinders," of which Napoleon knew little; but "he appeared to approve the reasons invoked to justify the conduct of Decaen."