Excusing himself, Captain Ribaut left the Americans briefly, but was speedily back.
Seating himself in his chair General Bazain, after courteously excusing himself, closed his eyes as though to sleep.
But to conclude: How much soever men differ in the course of life they prefer, and in their ways of palliating and excusing their vices to themselves; yet all agree in one thing, desiring to die the death of the righteous.
And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.
Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.
She will not break her word, excusing herself, because I am--mad?
Thrice her courage failed her, and she left the room with her tale untold, excusing herself on various pretexts.
All her thoughts were busy accusing, none of them excusing one another.
The squire did not eat any lunch, excusing himself on the plea that lunch in itself was a bad thing.
Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you?
They seemed to be mutually excusing themselves, and they looked as confused as if they had done something clumsy.
I have told you this, Monsieur, with the hope of excusing myself to a certain extent for what I did later on.
Several times our young journalist had thought he would simply make off without word said, excusing himself on the score of a misunderstanding when eight hundred odd miles lay between him and the directorial thunders.
The task lay before her of excusing herself, as far as was possible, of any blame in her child's death, and of presenting the whole unhappy affair to Ulrich and the world and to herself, tricked out in the guise of romance.
There was little time left for visits to Uhlenfelde, and Leo felt happy at having a valid pretext for excusing himself.
It is certainly very astonishing that he does not come home," continued the young wife, excusing to Zilah the absence of her Paul.
As she spoke, she took some pieces of meat from an almost empty cupboard, and placed them on the table, excusing herself for doing so before Zilah.
But this is not so in excusingvengeance taken after an interval upon one imprisoned even at the instance of the slayer.
This is evident from the very authorities excusing him in such a case, whenever the adultery is proved either by the confession of the wife or by other proofs, so that she can be said to be convicted of it.
Therefore, when his attention was called to this changeableness, in excusing himself, he asserted, in the said cons.
And this has been passed by law-makers for no other reason than that such a grievance, provoking to rash anger, is required for excusing a father, so that he may not spare his own daughter.
She was bent on excusing Godwin, and the only way in which she could do so was by arraigning the world for its huge dishonesty.
Earwaker half repented of his promise to visit the Jacox household, but there was no possibility of excusing himself.
Rigny writes excusing himself for his long silence.
Mabel gently withdrew her hand, and, excusing herself from staying longer, left him to indulge the new reflections which her words had awakened.
Bit yo see, she hasna t' reet use of her speach,' he said, excusing himself humbly to this handsome city nephew.
You asked me no questions after that quarrel we had in the Louvre,' she said, excusing herself.
The other refused, excusing himself: "My dear master, I only dropped in to pay my respects while passing by.
Then he bowed to them politely, excusing himself for having caused them a bad night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excusing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apologetic; extenuating; indulgent; palliative; refuting
