Now the circus has a few animals so that Christians can have anexcuse for going.
There is no excuse for violence, and no excuse for contempt and scorn.
So much for my excuse for my small progress in languages!
There is one thing, that I don't mention as an excuse for a fault which really does exist, but simply as a fact, viz.
The men in the chorus one after another tried in vain to attract her attention whenever the requirements of the scene gave them an excuse for talking to her.
She desires me to thank you most humbly for your gracious condescension: she is in violent distress for the severe loss she has experienced, and begged my excuse for quitting me suddenly, as she had to superintend the stuffing of the deceased.
Yes, sire, but there is an excuse for them: they are weary of admiring your majesty at a distance, and wish for the happiness of knowing you.
I may confess at once, with deep regret, that I have no excuse for length as to black bass, since I did not get even one.
They yield little of the kind of sport that gives the exercise which I have made my theme as an excuse for, and recommendation of, angling.
Sometimes he came to tea with them on Sundays as an excuse for bringing a tin of salmon.
He also flitted silently from one room to another, peering round corners and listening at doors in the hope of seeing or hearing something which would give him an excuse for making an example of someone.
But then one must take it out of oneself some other way, or it becomes an excuse for self-indulgence.
I think there is a good deal in that,' said Guy, laughing, 'though Charlie would say it is a very novel excuse for a young lady falling imprudently in love.
If you will look in your glass when you go home, and have a woman's heart in you, you may at least see an excuse for me: but like Mr. Trebooze I am not.
Happy for him if some chance word is not let drop, which will afford the whole assembly an excuse for falling on him open-mouthed, as the cause of all their woes!
There was no excuse for sitting up any longer; yet she lingered.
Sometimes it pulls badly at my heartstrings, and I shouldn't be half sorry for an excuse for taking to it again.
I have been so very guarded throughout," Serena resumed, "that it is impossible you should have the slightest excuse for using my name.
Perhaps my life had not been utterly shattered, after all: perhaps Ham Durrett would get well: such things happened, and Nancy would no longer have an excuse for continuing to refuse me.
My uncle's manner to me was now of studied kindness, and he was at greater pains than before to give me no excuse for offence.
But there's no excuse for you, after all I tried to do for you.
It was thus she supplied him, quite naturally, with an excuse for being at Fairview.
Thereupon Mr. Clive, not sorry to have an excuse for hostilities, ordered an immediate advance on Calcutta.
In the second place it is a very decent, respectable religion, as religions go, and extremely convenient for seafaring men who sometimes need an excuse for overhauling a Christian cargo.
Fortunately for me Colonel Clive had provided me with an excuse for my journey in the shape of a letter to Surajah Dowlah, in which the Colonel renewed his expressions of friendship, but demanded the withdrawal of the Nabob's army from Plassy.
I rather should offer my excuse for my intrusion," returned M.
You can find no excuse for him, only the fellow is absolutely ashamed of his father.
Cold reason finds no excuse forsuch a step, but the heart can easily solve this seeming riddle.
I had to assure myself by actual sight that you were safe; and, besides, it gave me an excuse for coming, and I was only too glad of that.
To have injured a man is to a woman apt to be an excuse for continuing to treat him ill; but when the opposite occurs she can be very forbearing.
Yes," Maurice hesitatingly assented, "but I shouldn't have thought of it as anexcuse for laxity of doctrine.
I plead the circumstance in excuse for presuming to request that thou wilt allow me to amend thy offer of courtesy.
These Judge and Jury Clubs after all are but an excuse for drinking.
You tell me that this is better than sitting all night at a bar drinking; but, I ask, is not this entertainment itself an excuse for drinking?
On the beach and near the mouth of the Sumlug River, lies an excuse for a Moro village, which consists of about twenty houses which were built by order, and under the general conditions of the Moro villages of this gulf.
The Moros have never even formed an excuse for a village there, but live scattered in tiny hamlets, or in miserable huts more or less contiguous to one another over a territory spread out over two or three leguas up stream.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excuse for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
