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But readers who excusably shy off from one more English story of industrial tragedy in the Midlands need not be so quick to leave Author Hodson's vicinity.

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Necessarily lacking the fullness of the book, it much less excusably lacks the bite.

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Last week, with a peacetime conscription bill due for early passage Congress and public were still excusably confused about what worst they were preparing against.

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The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language.

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As to that I have a conjecture, but as yet it is only a conjecture, and if I told it you would probably call it absurd—certainly you'd disregard it, and perhaps quite excusably.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Morrison, Arthur