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1. ‘It was a small estate that brought in no profit,’ replied Prince Andrew, trying to extenuate
2. It is manifest that, pricked by remorse—for my client is religious, in his way, and has a conscience, as I shall prove later—and desiring to extenuate his sin as far as possible, he has tried six times at least to substitute lay nourishment for clerical
3. “It was a small estate that brought in no profit,” replied Prince Andrew, trying to extenuate his action so as not to irritate the old man uselessly
4. As if any price could change the atrociousness of the attempt on the part of Great Britain, or could extenuate in the slightest degree the offence of those citizens who entertained and deliberated upon the infamous proposition! There was a most remarkable coincidence between some of the things which that man states, and certain events in the quarter alluded to
1. Why should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might be traced to Estella? Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the prison before meeting her at the coach-office, with the state of mind in which I now reflected on the abyss between Estella in her pride and beauty, and the returned transport whom I harbored? The road would be none the smoother for it, the end would be none the better for it, he would not be helped, nor I extenuated
2. This outrage committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some female monastery
1. “Constitute a sin it may, but consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch, that it only extenuates it, if it does constitute
1. becomes trapped, it’s partly because of extenuating
2. but to Thomas I could grant extenuating
3. “But there are extenuating circumstances, Esmond
4. It seems we are always on the look out for extenuating circumstances disproportionate to (the) codes of proper behavior
5. to him that I was the one who started things up, but the extenuating circumstances for me were that I knew she was not married, that I thought she broke up with her boyfriend, and therefore I thought she was fair game
6. “You can probably claim extenuating circumstances on that
7. I understand there were extenuating circumstances, however, it is necessary to remind you of the seriousness of this violation
8. No one was to venture outside of Adlivun until the threat had been cleared—excepting extenuating circumstances and only if approved by Aazuria herself or one of the twins
9. It was, he thought, beautiful and the best form of respect he could provide his brother given such extenuating circumstances
10. Society was intolerant of extenuating circumstances
11. And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating
12. At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character
13. "I shall bring that forward as an extenuating circumstance," replied Eugenie
14. "There will be extenuating circumstances," he replied
15. Now, maybe there were extenuating circumstances, maybe the road was slippery or something else was out of whack
16. Now, maybe there were extenuating circumstances, maybe the road was slippery or something else was out of whack
17. “So there must have been some extenuating circumstances,” said Knox
18. “We really can’t get into that, but we can tell you that there are extenuating circumstances
19. And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, condemned to penal servitude in the second class for a term of eight years only
20. I can’t ask the Board to renew it for the fall unless there’s some extenuating circumstance you care to share with me
21. “It seems to me there are extenuating circumstances
22. On these three considerations alone is based the conception of irresponsibility for crimes and the extenuating circumstances admitted by all legislative codes
23. There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Caesar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius
24. this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an extenuating circumstance
25. He could find no extenuating circumstances, and was ashamed of trying to
26. And the same answer was repeated to every question: “Yes, guilty!” and without the slightest extenuating comment
27. He was convicted, but with extenuating circumstances, and condemned to hard labour in Siberia for fifteen years
28. The nations are coming to understand that the magnitude of a crime cannot be its extenuation; that if killing is a crime, killing many can be no extenuating circumstance; that if robbery is disgraceful, invasion cannot be glorious
