The infraction of discipline was soon condoned by the nobility of the action, and ere long the offenders were reinstated in their commands.
It was said in those days that Napoleon I was willing to forgive crimes at a price; that big robberies were sometimes condoned by a gift to the State.
We have legalised confiscation, we have consecrated sacrilege, we have condoned treason,' pronounced with drawling alliteration, was worth a whole Parliamentary campaign.
But, as she suggested a valuable hint to me, I condoned her offence.
The gaze wascondoned and allowed by the two men who followed it.
You could see she was transported, presumably to some place of chartered stupidity, of condoned oblivion, where nobody could challenge her right to enter and remain.
A matrimonial offence which is a sufficient cause for divorce may be condoned or forgiven by the spouse aggrieved, and such condonation is a good defence to the action.
When the offense alleged has been condoned or forgiven by plaintiff.
The most unblushing villainies and crimes were either officially condonedor remitted and forgiven.
Larry was a high churchman, which fact had condoned much in the Bishop's eyes.
In the matter of divorce, for example, they, by their unlawful additions and false interpretations, had condoned even the sin of adultery.
Disobedience to law was not to be excused because of corruption among the law's representatives, nor was wickedness in any individual to be condoned or palliated because of another's villainy.
But one circumstance in her father I have always thought condoned all his obstinacy.
The folly of which he had been guilty--and it was an undoubted folly and mistake--had been condoned and excused by the after life.
Only the gold bangle challenged Damaris' taste as touching on florid; but its existence she condoned in face of its wearer's hazardous and inherently romantic calling.
It was a society in which the lawbreaker was king; a society in which crimes were not only condoned but were admired and even rewarded; a society in which deviation from the rules was judged solely on its degree of success.
He hastily added, "Thievery, I mean, is not condonedunder these circumstances.
This system was condoned and reinforced by the doctrine of the inequality of all men, which lay at the heart of the Omegan legal system.
Adultery was condoned for by fine to the wronged persons.
If an Indian is murdered by one of a neighbouring tribe, and the offence not condoned by some arranged payment, it is deemed an obligation on the part of the injured to retaliate by killing one of the offending tribe.
If she is detected in a liaison with an outsider she is usually discarded, but the offence may be condonedshould the man be a Brahman.
In the Central Provinces the hangman was accompanied by four or five other sweepers of the caste panchayat the idea being perhaps that his act should be condoned by their presence and approval and he should escape guilt.
All the political corruption of the party when it was dominated by plutocrats is condoned because its perpetrators shout "sixteen to one!
His admission to the good lady of a passing interest in horses was an apology; there seemed such an utter absence of the betting spirit that the recreation it afforded him condoned the offense.
Mentally thanking the fashion which condoned it, she turned the trousers up at the bottom.
Even his crimes, however, were condoned in view of the good government which he enforced and the services he rendered; showing that, if he was dishonest and treacherous, he was also able and enlightened.
We have already seen that society condonedthe murder of a sister by a brother, if she brought dishonor on her family; and the same privilege was extended to a husband in the case of a notoriously faithless wife.
That conduct Ludwig's letters, soon to be quoted, show had been condoned by him, but a memorandum found among Schindler's papers discloses that her conduct in Vienna was such that Beethoven again thought of invoking the police.
Were they in ignorance of what we now know, namely, that her conduct had not only been reprehensible in 1811 (though condoned by her husband) but continued so after her husband's death?
If the duchesses condoned it all, did it become her to be prudish?
She had condoned his treachery to her,-- and for his sake had even been kind to the rival who had taken her place.
Unfortunately political or administrative errors cannot be condoned by reason of good intentions.
Of the crimes there could, indeed, never have been any doubt, but posterity took but little heed of them, for they were amply condoned by the single virtue.
But the Professor condoned my failure in the regular psychical line, in consideration of my brilliant success as a beholder of wraiths and visions.
The mismanagement of the national resources in the war with France wascondoned by the victories of Wellington.
The mistakes of Lincoln and Stanton are not to becondoned by pointing to McClellan.
There is no evidence that Byron ever afterward loved any other woman; and what is very singular about the affair is that it was condoned by the husband, until it became a scandal even in Italy.
Now and again, undoubtedly, this hero-worship runs to excess: the faults of style and of method in Borrow’s writings arecondoned or are passed by unobserved by Dr.
A monstrous proceeding truly, and not to be condoned by any circumstances.
Wooler was very angry over Cobbett’s flight to America, but soon condoned the matter.
