"Want you to hear good music," he said in self-Excusation.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
It fortuned on a day, that Byrrhena desired me earnestly to suppe with her; and shee would in no wise take any Excusation.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
Before they went to bed he had a little guarded talk with his Duchess, half Excusation of his absence which might have aggravated her alarms, half condemnation of Amilcare; the whole, consequently, a veiled eulogy of himself.
"Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso"
Maurice Henry Hewlett