Of all conceivable faults in a military commander that which is the least pardonable is the neglect to crush his antagonist by force of superior numbers when he has them at his disposal.
Bones had entered the church and gone up in the gallery through a pardonable ignorance and modesty; but, perceiving his mistake, was now calmly walking along the gallery rail before the astounded worshipers.
This had something of a public look, which suggested that his intrusion might be at least a pardonable trespass, and he relied, like most strangers, on the exonerating quality of a stranger's ignorance.
It is natural and pardonable that we should like to know the details of the daily life which the men whom we admire have shared with common mortals, ourselves among the rest.
About all these accidents we have a natural and pardonable curiosity.
It is always gratifying when one's pet scheme turns out well, and as she had taken much trouble in arranging the scores, she felt a pardonable pride in the success of her work.
It was with pardonable pride that they stepped on to the platform and watched the look of amazement which spread over the audience.
Bad puns, they say, wild and sometimes ill-mannered jokes are perhaps pardonable in youth but in middle age they are inexcusable.
The glow lighted up the encampment, and filled the Banner Boy Scouts with a feeling of pardonable pride, because each one felt that he had a personal ownership in the camp under the wide spreading oak.
Every member of Stanhope troop felt a thrill of pardonablepride whenever his eyes fell upon the proof of their efficiency.
There are a few good books too, and a few handsome prints; while some really valuable nick-nacks are set out, with pardonable ostentation, on a little table covered with crimson velvet.
If he made a mistake, it was at least a pardonable one.
His Vicar smiled to see This armour on him buckled: With pardonable glee He blessed himself and chuckled.
Perhaps you have all the royalty you want aside from what you may receive from the sale of your works, but every author feels a pardonable pride in getting his books into every household.
But this sort of Carriage, which prompts a Man against Rules to urge what he has a Mind to, is pardonable only when you sue for another.
Grandon repeats the rescue, and if he makes Violet more of a heroine than madame would approve, it is a pardonable sin.
Everywhere the State displayed a pardonable joy mingled with a less justifiable expectation that this was the beginning of the end.
They dwelt with pardonable pride on the wealth, the magnificence, and the honour of their king, and dilated on every point in which the alliance with such a potentate was likely to serve the cause of Rome.
He would shake his head and answer, in a mild tone of a man consciously repressing a pardonable pride.
With pardonable shrewdness she inspected his visage, attire, and manner, for indications of his pecuniary and social standing, while he was indulging in silly commonplaces.
Mrs. Hazleton, with pardonable maternal vanity, loved to dress her beautiful blind child in a manner decorating to her loveliness.
He had heard so much of Virginian aristocracy, of the pride of tracing one's descent from one of the first families of Virginia, that he thought it a pardonable deception if it increased his dignity and consequence.
And I gathered from Mr. Mafferton's tone that, while it was pardonable to think badly of an English monarch, it was improper to a degree to find him amusing.
The prayers of the saint and the response of the angel were meant to be seriously taken; but their pathos was generally met with pardonable laughter by the crowd in the booth.
Was that dishonesty, or only a pardonable diplomacy?
Perhaps that too was pardonable diplomacy, and no reference to it could be expected in a letter which she was at liberty to show to Dr.
A little later he is equally struck with the view of the open country, and his ecstasy is pardonable in a novice.
Certainly, when every allowance is made forpardonable or unintentional exaggeration, it must be conceded that there were giants in those days.
With such a Canaan spread out before them, was it not wholly pardonable if some did sigh with longing for the leeks and flesh-pots of the Egypt they had left, or wished to pass by this land and seek a fairer home?
And surely such conjectures were pardonable on the part of all whose ignorance and prejudice still nursed the delusion of "Mormon" disloyalty.
Purely mechanical encouragement," I answered, gazing at my handicraft with an inventor's pardonable pride.
She spoke so coldly that Maddalena felt a little pardonable resentment, though she knew that her friend was not at all herself.
And Jessie thrilled with a littlepardonable pride as she dwelt upon the part she had played.
He got clear off," Jessie said, not without a little pardonable pride.
It's very interesting to hear you speak of yourself; but I don't know what you mean by your allusions to your having fallen off," Paul Overt observed withpardonable hypocrisy.
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