She had felt a most delightful sense of pardonable vanity when, as the year progressed, Marjorie had preferred her above all the others.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
Mr. Claybourne uttered a pardonable snort.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
But some pride surely is pardonable in one so isolated.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse