'I know,' said Archie, when he had been persuaded to apologise, 'of course I know a gentleman oughtn't to hit a lady, not evenI mean, especially not if she's his little sister.

The manager hurried towards Mr. Holymead and endeavoured to explain and apologise, but the K.C. assured him that there was nothing to apologise for.

It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treatwhen two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like; while each apologises, and is willing to take both halves of the blame to his single share.

It is a matter of deep sorrow that the Government of India communique offers a defence of the terms, calls them a fulfilment of Mr. Lloyd George's pledge of 5th January 1918 and yet apologises for their defective nature and appeals to the Mahomedans of India as if to mock them that they would accept the terms with quiet resignation.

At the outset the writer apologises for the rudeness of his style, "I know not," he says, "what the court of a king means, nor what the fine phrases of silken courtiers are.

Then the War dog retreats hurriedly as a mouse appears; and you, his victim, apologise for him and explain how he has been shaken by adversity and what a noble creature a few days of good food and kind treatment will make of him.

When I knew him he was all fallen away and fallen in; crooked and shrunken; buckled into a stiff waistcoat for support; troubled by ailments, which kept him hobbling in and out of the room; one foot gouty; a wig for decency, not for deception, on his head; close shaved, except under his chinand for that he never failed to apologise, for it went sore against the traditions of his life.

I will not here stand to discuss obiter, whether stars be causes, or signs; or to apologise for judical astrology.

He apologises for its style by saying that if it betrayed any weakness of thought or inelegance of expression this was only what might be expected from a man who had so long been surrounded by the coarse and offensive patois of barbarians.

I must apologise again for having been so tedious, but I am sure that the same friendliness on your part which has produced these hasty but well-meant expostulations will excuse them.

Counsel apologises to the Court and asks leave to refresh his memory.

Tom descends, bowing courteously, apologises for having been absent when the highly distinguished gentleman arrived; and turning to the Bursch, begs him to transmit to his friend who has run away his apologies for the absurd mistake which led him to, etc. etc.

True he often apologises for them, but I do not think that we need take these apologies seriously.

Caelius, always attracted by novelty, left Cicero and attached himself to Catiline; and for this vagary, as well as for his own want of success in controlling his pupil, Cicero rather awkwardly and amusingly apologises in the early chapters of his speech in his defence.

So conscious is he that it is to Greece that Rome is indebted for all her literature, and so conscious, also, on the part of his countrymen, of what he terms "an arrogant disdain for everything national", that he apologises to his readers for writing for the million in their mother-tongue.

Dryden repaid this favour by an epistle, in which he beautifully apologises for the extravagancies of his friend's poetry, and consoles him for the censure of those cold judges, whose blame became praise when they accused the warmth which they were incapable of feeling.

233, n. 3; Johnson, account of his introduction to, i. 268, n. 4, 356; apologises to, for repeating some oaths, ii. 338, n. 2; iii. 40; an ardent friend, iv. 344, n. 2; colloquial Latin, ii. 125, n. 5; contempt of Garrick's acting, ii. 92, n. 4; Debates, i. 504; degree of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3; desire of life, iv.

431; apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329; arguing, ii. 100, n. 1; 'flew upon an argument,' ii. 365; belabours his confessor, iv. 281; bequest to him, iv.

105; Boswell apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3; defends him, v. 339, n. 5; relishes his excellence, in.

The senior respectfully apologises for his employer being so occupied.

(Mr. B. protests and apologises.)

It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treatwhen two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like; while each apologises, and is willing to take both halves of the blame to his single share.

He more than once explains that the "Memoirs" have no claim to the more respectable title of "History"; and he apologises for introducing anecdotes which might be thought inconsistent with what Macaulay brands as "a vile phrase," the dignity of history.

He hates getting angryI expect he had a bad temper onceand he apologises afterwards; but it's no useit's like a thunderstorm apologising to a tree which has been struck.

In a letter which was enclosed with it the author modestly apologises for its innumerable merits.