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Meanings of pardonable curiosity in English

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Usage of pardonable curiosity in English
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About all these accidents we have a natural and pardonable curiosity.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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He now looked up from his books with a pardonable curiosity to say:
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
3
She had satisfied a pardonable curiosity, and had gone away without mentioning her name.
The House Behind the Cedars
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The object of your pardonable curiosity is a Mr. Okada, the potato baron of California.
The Pride of Palomar
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That is another point upon which I regret that I cannot satisfy your pardonable curiosity.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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This humility, notwithstanding, he was unable to guard against the pardonable curiosity of his servants.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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A pardonable curiosity led me to remark this.
Mr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India
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She was conscious of a great and pardonable curiosity, of a frank out-reaching for fuller knowledge.
A Daughter of the Snows
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With a pardonable curiosity to learn if I were right, I opened conversation with the young man.
The Gold Bag
10
I inquired, with pardonable curiosity.
Paul Patoff
11
He looked around him with a little, pardonable curiosity, for he had never before been in an elegant city mansion.
Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton
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All this was seen and heard by some one or other of his companions, who had the pardonable curiosity to watch his proceedings.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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"One may feel a pardonable curiosity," he said, "And a desire to know-
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
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"I suppose there is a good deal of money in it?" said Mike, with pardonable curiosity.
Cast Upon the Breakers
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"Your folks going to buy it of the old lady Uncle Jeptha left it to?" asked Henry, with pardonable curiosity.
Hiram the Young Farmer
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