Having said this much about the relations between Gordon and his brother, it would be an inexcusable omission to pass over the still more striking sympathy and affection that united him with his sisters.
On this raid, great and inexcusable excesses were committed, but, except in two or three flagrant instances, they were committed by men who had never before served with General Morgan.
Nor have I any intention of denying that inexcusable excesses were committed at various times by men of Morgan's command.
Both at the same instant discovered a face thrust down to the level of their own and immediately between them, with a familiarity most inexcusable in a stranger.
Here again it is necessary to pass on with unamiable if not inexcusable rapidity, omitting any details of the time remaining of Josephine Harris's visit at West Falls.
The conduct of Cartwright and Parker had been much more inexcusable than that of Alsop and Lobb.
I have expressed my mind more fully on the whole subject of the inexcusable mischief being done at the present day to the German language in my "Parerga," vol.
For we feel that theft is even more inexcusable in a rich man than in a poor one.
If you do not know it, you are inexcusable to assert it, and especially to persist in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof.
If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact.
But there was another circumstance which rendered the assembling of the Council fatal to the Emperor's project, and which, not to have known, was on his part inexcusable ignorance.
It would be so much the more inexcusable as God had many other ways of removing him, any one of which He might readily employ.
We must not forget that, however inexcusable their father was, the great guilt of the proceeding was theirs.
For that which is reality in Carlyle is only echo and imitation in Ruskin, and the latter has power enough and a field wide enough of his own to render inexcusable the attempt to follow slavishly another man.
Men, whose circumstances will permit them to choose their own way of life, are inexcusable if they do not pursue that which their judgment tells them is the most laudable.
We are in some measure more inexcusable if we violate our duties to a friend, than to a relation; since the former arise from a voluntary choice, the latter from a necessity, to which we could not give our own consent.
I must tell you, I care not how little I say in that business of Ireland, since those strange powers and instructions given to your favourite Glamorgan, which appear to be so inexcusable to justice, piety, and prudence.
A double fault is bad in singles, but it is inexcusable in doubles.
It was a typical Williams effort, glorious tennis one minute followed by inexcusable lapses.
All the same it was inexcusable in me," she declared sternly.
If you had been here," replies Cecilia, with a not inexcusable resentment, "you might have asked him yourself.
If you do know it, you are inexcusable not to designate the man and prove the fact.
If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof.
Sir, I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail, if a great part of the members who now fill the House had not the misfortune to be absent when he appeared at your bar.
Accordingly, the least resistance to power appears more inexcusable in our eyes than the greatest abuses of authority.
The money had forced itself upon him in an inexcusable way; he was convinced that he had never meant to misappropriate it; assuredly he had received not a halfpenny of benefit from it.
She had not a penny to bless herself with, but he had magnanimously married her; and his reward was her inexcusable interference in his private business.
Already a delay of twenty minutes--due to a defective tire and to the inexcusable absence of the spanner with which the spare wheel was manipulated--had aroused his just anger.
Considering everything, therefore, I hope, foolish as our engagement was, foolish as it has since in every way been proved, it was not at the time an unnatural or an inexcusable piece of folly.
Not to say that Clarissa, whose great objection to Mr. Wyerley was, that he was a scoffer, must have been inexcusable had she known Lovelace to be so, and had given the least attention to his addresses.
Would you add, my Brother, to those distresses which you hold your sister so inexcusable for having (although from involuntary and undersigned causes) given?
