For this prejudice and hostility there are provocative causes, although they may not be urged in extenuation.

Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime?

The government of the island was a crime, and yet for this crime some considerations must be urged in extenuation.

(And what would Frances Wilmot with her wrong-headed toleration, have urged in extenuation?

"But the fellow is sincere," the professor urged in extenuation.

"It is because I love you so, Virginia," he hastened to urge in extenuation of his suggested disloyalty.