After a dinner and a little bottle of champagne, there is nothing more pardonable.

But that gross way of two comparatives was then ordinary; and, therefore, more pardonable in Jonson.

Then-though I do not in the least defend or excuse you-yourbreaking with Lady Maude may be more pardonable.

He had no reason to forgive her, for nothing had happened to make her guilt seem more pardonable than before.

She forgot all his faults and harshness; even his infidelity seemed more pardonable now that death stood between him and her.

Possibly he might be the victim of the latter and more pardonable state, and so thinking she gave him her hand.

This perhaps may be common to the old & the young, tho I confess it is the more pardonable in the latter.

But had you reason to be displeased that I said a change in you would be much more pardonable than in him?

This error was the more pardonable as immediately afterwards the two grooves do actually pass into each other in a very remarkable way.

An over-strained enthusiasm is more pardonable with respect to Shakespeare than the want of it; for our admiration cannot easily surpass his genius.

Heaven forbid that I should be thought to advocate falsehood in children; but an untruth is more pardonable in them than in their parents.