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It is, however, nothing so serious as you will pardonably suppose.

He was pardonably proud; it had been built on Tanith a year before.

About the fourteen biological specimens, we were pardonably indefinite.

Sarah asked, a twinkle in her eyes and a pardonably smug expression on her face.

But glancing up at Jamie now, I thought they might pardonably have been excused for nervousness.

Pardonably proud of it, too.

"We're dealing with two newly born infante and one mother who's still dopey and pardonably weak."

Philip was disappointed, and Lawson, pardonably anxious to show off one of the celebrities of the Quarter, grew impatient.

My war, as I pardonably regard it, is still being waged, is break-ing out afresh, and may soon even return to its fatherland.

The Dowager, demanding the truth from Phoebe, heard what had passed between her and Ianthe, and was pardonably angry.

Sciathan is a Flier, in love with flight and pardonably proud of his wings and his special status among the Crew.

Such moments can't sustain a once sure-fire, now problematic show that can no longer be pardonably staged with tired complacency or tomfoolish gimmickry.

He had indeed erred, yet pardonably; for if any human spirit could have sufficiently reverenced the processes so sacred in his eyes, it must have been a woman's.

Pardonably proud of her apparent insouciance, Maggy was already walking across the narrow dirt road that allowed the occasional pickup truck access to the dock as she replied.

It was very cold, but no snow had fallen when Lord Marlow, pardonably pleased with himself, arrived at Austerby, bringing Sylvester with him.

Outlawed in Scotland, barred from his own home, and with only vague prospects in France, he could pardonably have been less than enthused about acquiring an additional obligation.

The Virtues of Economy Today's dance reviewers may pardonably have felt they were living and writing through as perilous esthetic times as those recorded by Miss Watkins.

I was pardonably curious in my survey, for it appeared my fate to be pent up with them on this miniature floating world for I knew not how many weeks or months.

Although our object had been accomplished and the mine rendered harmless to shipping, one and all were grievously disappointed at the mine's inglorious end, having been pardonably desirous of witnessing a more dramatic finale.

Shapiro sees that the next step, what we might pardonably call the Foodie Revolution, brought about more recently by people like Alice Waters and institutions like the farmers' market movement, is reconnecting thoughtful gastronomy to agriculture.

The intrepid aeronaut, pardonably excited, and fearful lest he should not be seen within the gallery, made frantic efforts to attract attention by waving his flag, and worked his oars so vigorously that one of them broke and fell.

Buddy, whose word no one had questioned, who might pardonably have considered himself a hero, was concerned chiefly with his mother's flower garden which he had helped to plant and had watered more or less faithfully with creek water carried in buckets.

The riata, a braided hair "macarthy," was indeed a fine specimen, some sixty feet in length, of which the soldier was pardonably proud, a fact which threw him off his guard in the face of the Indian's clever simulation of interest and approval.

The Crimson defended it, "That political theories should prevent a Harvard student from enjoying an opportunity for research in one of the world's greatest cultural centers is most unfortunate and scarcely in line with the liberal traditions of which Harvard is pardonably proud."

His reasoning was specious, but pardonably so; had the consul and the urban praetor been involved in the escalation of the grain price, they would now be sitting back picking their teeth contentedly rather than chasing their tails to find the cash to pay back loans.