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Examples
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'Ah, that's another spot on your dress; you're making 'scuses, and blaming Nobbles when it was reely you.'
'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre
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He's thinking too much o 'finding scuses to go up to the cottage, and I know why.
A Life's Eclipse George Manville Fenn 1870
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Ye was tempted, honey, 'says I (for you see I felt like makin' scuses for her); 'but de Lord Jesus has got a pardon for both on us.'
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Lord bless you, de whole world turns round on scuses.
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Why, scuses is like dis yer grease that keeps de wheels from screaking.
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Here I knows you both wants to play, and will take to cards as an old sarpent to a young frog; but, jest because McKewn here has given you a look out of his gimblet eyes, you shet up, and put on a righteous face, and swear agin your very souls, that you're tired and don't want to play, and hain't got any more money, and I don't know what other 'scuses.
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I must see him here; and don't you take any 'scuses, you hear!
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"Too late these 'scuses vain," the knight replied,
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569
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"Then I scuses you all for laughing, gentlemen; though it did seem rather a rum thing to me for you to be a-busting out in a loud grin at a serus time like this.
Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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