" He was instantly apologetic for the word; but Johnnie detached the flower from her dress and held it toward him.

The old woman was terribly apologetic about having gone into the room.

The sub-prefect, however, had been so kind and was so apologetic as to the inconveniences of the "barber-shop" that there was nothing for it but to go bravely forward.

It was then with a view of meeting the exigencies of the world as it is, not as it might or ought to have been, that such a work as the Génie du Christianisme strove to find an apologetic in what previously had been regarded as outside the domain of theology and more properly the concern of the preacher.

He had, it is true, worked in it strenuously and with conspicuous success, and had revealed a natural aptitude for Christian apologetics of a very high order.

[Footnote 4: apologetic to the queen.]

I felt almost apologetic toward Godfrey for ever doubting him.