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From all the facile vocabulary of feminine self-excuse her bewildered and shamed soul could shape no sentence either of propitiation or denial.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

"Oh, she'll come again," she said in self-excuse, and with vague ideas of atonement, after Lois had gone away.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

"Don't indulge in the fatal folly of self-excuse."

From The Price She Paid by Phillips, David Graham

Indeed, was he not indulging in cowardly self-excuse in thinking that this was true?

From The Great God Success by Phillips, David Graham

She never opened her lips in self-defense, or self-excuse!

From Her Mother's Secret by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte