| Her wearing of her best honiton lace collar seemed pardonable. |
| But it would be a pardonable exaggeration to say that, for most writers, greedy to learn and emulate, this is the only important question. |
| If the fact that the trial judge did not do the right thing is pardonable, those circumstances should be mentioned. |
| However, this pardonable self-promotion in no way detracts from his achievement. |
| Either it plumps for simplification, which is pardonable given the justness of its moral outrage. |
| Jealousy to him was a weakness, only pardonable when the cause was trivial. |
