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Meanings of pardonable pride in English

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Usage of pardonable pride in English
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He paused long enough to flex a presentable bicep with pardonable pride.
The Honorable Percival
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She had a fine and pardonable pride in her kingly sons.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
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Rovald beamed with pardonable pride as she and Lalita went inside.
More Than Honor
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Before leaving Mr. Wolverton showed us his motor boat with much pardonable pride.
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
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He thought they all understood what with pardonable pride he called the 'Nelson touch.'
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 / Publications of the Navy Reco...
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At last everything was ready and the girls looked at the table with pardonable pride.
Glenloch Girls
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Father, mother, and brother looked at Rhoda, and felt a pardonable pride in her appearance.
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
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He had a very pardonable pride in her appearance and the attention she attracted pleased him.
The Measure of a Man
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With pardonable pride he turned to the cattleman.
Oh, You Tex!
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Augustus, with pardonable pride, repeated some of the things that Mrs. Pennycoop had said to him.
The Cost of Kindness
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It made them all laugh, that did, added Mrs. Wilkins, with a touch of pardonable pride.
Idle Ideas in 1905
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Fanny surveyed the book with pardonable pride.
Fanny Herself
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She was then the mother of several very handsome children, to whom she pointed with pardonable pride.
The Facts of Reconstruction
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Let them hear how much you have improved, said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil.
Little Women
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The detective exhibited a pardonable pride in some of them, but his companion damped his enthusiasm by saying:
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
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When Adolph finished his first machine, he took it down to them and exhibited it with pardonable pride.
Revenge!
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