Resorted to a very pardonable subterfuge highly conducive to the public's good.

You know Tavia has a very pardonable weakness for anything theatrical, said Dorothy.

But you are very pardonable for fancying him ridiculous.

He had a very pardonable pride in her appearance and the attention she attracted pleased him.

The English, with very pardonable vanity, attributed the conquest chiefly to the valor of the naval force.

The eagerness of General Halleck for superior command in the West was, to say the least, very pardonable.

Mrs. Bebberley Cumble thrust a very pardonable sense of exasperation into the background of her mind and demanded impatiently:

So maligned had he been that his sensitiveness on the score of the discharge of his duties was very natural, very pardonable.

It is proper, however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments.

It is these things indeed which stamp him as a college man, and occasion a very pardonable pride in the minds of his parents.

As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think.

"I think he is very pardonable," said Gwendolen.

"What if the wind were to change and blow it all this way?" asked Nigel, with very pardonable feelings of discomfort.