But he who habitually withholds from his dependents sufficient sustenance, can plead no such palliation.

In his fidelity we find some palliation.

No one of his name had ever done that before; but this man and his people had, and with their own lips they had framed palliation for him.

To us, however, who can hardly subscribe to the doctrine that "Vice loses half its evil by losing all its grossness"; neither the remoteness of time, nor the gaiety of the season, furnishes a sufficient palliation.

And I had no idea where to go to make myself another hope, or in what course lay palliation.

I shall not offer any palliation or apology for my misconduct.

This, however, he never attempted, and must therefore be classed, in this respect, with such writers as Byron, whose powers gilded their pollutions, less than their pollutions degraded and defiled their powers; nay, perhaps he should be ranked even lower than the noble bard, whose obscenities are not so gross, and who had, besides, to account for them the double palliations of passion and of despair.

For this unfortunate creature, every feeling mind will find an apology in his calamitous situation; butfor Mr. Weber, we know not where the warmest of his friends will seek either palliation or excuse.

"What sort of person is Maxfield Ware?" She attempted no palliations here.