Some of these have fallen into my hands, by an accident which it is needless at present to mention; and one of these very stories, with its prelude in the words of Mr. Knickerbocker, I undertook to read, by way of Acquitting myself of the debt which I owed to the other story-tellers at the Hall.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Her nervousness had not put her out of tune: she was Acquitting herself admirably.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
He knew he was Acquitting himself creditably then, for Mattawa had swung the axe since he could lift it, and there are men, and mechanics, too, who cannot learn to use it as the Bushmen do in a lifetime; but he also knew that he could not keep pace with his comrade very long.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton