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Excusable mistake really, as one never expects anyone connected to the Labour Party to have a sense of humour.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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Excusable homicide, in American parlance, is rather like how a PLO sympathizer would view suicide bombings in Palestine, or how a white militia member would view the Oklahoma City bombing.
Abortion pre-Roe 2005
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_Excusable_ homicide is the killing of a person by accident, or while lawfully employed, without any design to do wrong.
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Excusable flurry possibly for the thing had come so quickly, and most of us were strangers here of but a few hours.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
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"Excusable?" said Lionel, wondering what he had done this time.
Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869
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Excusable homicides are by misadventure, or in self-defence.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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Excusable homicides are by misadventure, or in self-defence.
Autobiography 1821
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Excusable homicides are by misadventure, or in self-defence.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Excusable homicides are by misadventure, or in self-defence.
Public Papers 1775
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But do not imagine that I desire your indulgence upon this Account: On the contrary, to make you more intent upon your Corrections, I own to you that my Friends and I, have no Aversion to the Publishing this Piece, if by the Addition of your Vote, we can make our Folly the more Excusable.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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