Then alternately Goriot blamed his daughters and pardoned their unfilial and selfish behaviour.

Thereupon Titus and Gisippus related to him at length the strange story of their friendship, and he set the two friends at liberty, and even pardoned the thief for their sakes.

Gardiner felt the justice of this remark, and easily pardoned its familiarity for its truth.

But the soldier told him, that, as he had formerly sworn fealty to Anlaf, he could never have pardoned himself the treachery of betraying and ruining his ancient master; and that Athelstan himself, after such an instance of his criminal conduct, would have had equal reason to distrust his allegiance.

On the other hand, there subsisted a declared animosity between Edward and Godwin, on account of Alfred’s murder, of which the latter had publicly been accused by the prince, and which he might believe so deep an offence, as could never, on account of any subsequent merits, be sincerely pardoned.

Lady Mary's fear was lest the matter should come to the cognisance of her husband: it would certainly be unfair to Montagu to suggest that he might not have forgiven his wife for a love-affair; but he would certainly never have pardoned her any transaction that cost him money.

Arcite is finally pardoned on condition that he will leave Athens and never return, on penalty of death; but his love for Emily lures him back to the forbidden land.

It was that a father had supplied his son, under sentence of death, with poison, and when too late found that he was pardoned.

urself entirely to the pleasure of seeing her rival; to entertain the latter and become one of her party, is an outrage for which you will never be pardoned.

A man can not be expected to be amorous of his wife, but should he be, it will be pardoned him as soon as people see you.

This man was passing in the street; and at the moment when Divine pity pardoned, or promised pardon, to the unfortunate woman who was expiating the faults of her life by a frightful death, human raillery appeared to her in the form of the song under her window.

There is so much good feeling about the King that his errors of taste are pardoned.

Cuthbert Clapton, condemned, reprieved and pardoned.

The dabblers, whether in verse or in any other high sphere, should be every day unsparingly reminded that neither gods, nor men, nor booksellers have pardoned their mediocrity: mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non Dî, non concessere columnae.

I pardoned you long ago.

Lord Cromarty was pardoned, solely, it was said, from pity for his poor wife, who was at the time of the trial far advanced in pregnancy.

The contemptuous notice of one Christopher Columbus, must be pardoned to the patriotic rivalry of a Portuguese.

Before leaving Lisbon, De Gama received ten malefactors on board who had been condemned to die, but were pardoned on condition of going on this voyage, for the purpose of being left wherever De Gama pleased, that they might examine the country, and be enabled to give him an account of the inhabitants on his return.

We have never read a more distressing letter than he wrote to his family, when, at last pardoned, he was once more free.

What is certain is that towards such a creature nobody may feel inclined to be indulgent; and if she has faults and errors to be pardoned for, she will never be so on account of her antipatia!

30 By his order let his shortcomings be pardoned!

Then Ullusun heard in his high mountains of my glorious exploits: he departed in haste like a bird, and kissed my feet; I pardoned his innumerable misdeeds, and I blotted out his iniquities.

Lady Mary was such an obvious Tomboy that he might be pardoned for leaving her out of the question.

The mistake you have committed in regard to myself may be pardoned in one of your evident inexperience; who, fresh from the boorish society of the country, finds himself, for the first time, amongst well-bred gentlemen.

but profligate husband, whose neglect and frequent irregularities she had pardoned, until the utter estrangement, occasioned by his passion for the Countess of Exeter, filled her with such trouble, that, overpowered at length by anguish, she complained to her mother Lady Lake,an ambitious and imperious woman, whose vanity had prompted her to bring about this unfortunate match.