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Then loudly would she bewail her weakness and plead in extenuation: I seen the candy.
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She decided to plead in extenuation.
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Forgive me, and let the greatness and the purity of my love for you plead in extenuation of my act.
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It is enough, they think, to plead in extenuation, that they sought to flee from this greatest of human ills, Poverty.
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But I must plead in extenuation that the boy was a fool, and that I'd done my best for him- Ireallyhad.
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If the critical reader finds this a defect, the author can plead in extenuation only the difficulty of avoiding it under the circumstances.
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The manufacturer and the bartender could plead in extenuation that they made money out of the business and money has led multitudes into sin.
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These circumstances must be pleaded in extenuation of its shortcomings and demerits.
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Nothing can be pleaded in extenuation of this relapse into folly.
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The sin of ignorance cannot be pleaded in extenuation of such habits to-day, as it could then.
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As for her, condemn her as we must, much can be pleaded in extenuation of her conduct.
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Such things happen in a1l wars as isolated instances, and the circumstances may be pleaded in extenuation of acts otherwise shocking.
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If suffering may be pleaded in extenuation of moods whose cause is mingled love and pain, he certainly was not without excuse.
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"There is so much to be done in the world, and so few to do the work," she pleaded in extenuation.