If Mr Tulliver had been a susceptible man in his conjugal relation, he might have supposed that she drew out the key to aid her imagination in anticipating the moment when he would be in a state to justify the production of the best Holland sheets.
"It is very dreadful of Dodo, though," said Celia, wishing to justify her husband.
Lydgate would understand that if his friends hear a calumny about him their first wish must be to justify him.
This change would surely justify him in asking Dorothea to receive him once more.
He had never felt more than friendship for her—had never had anything in his mind to justify what she felt to be her husband's outrage on the feelings of both: and that friendship he still felt.
It was not only that he was unwilling to entertain thoughts which could be accused of baseness, and was already uneasy in the sense that he had to justify himself from the charge of ingratitude—the latent consciousness of many other barriers between himself and Dorothea besides the existence of her husband, had helped to turn away his imagination from speculating on what might befall Mr.
It gives me an opportunity of doing some good work,—and I am aware that I have to justify his choice of me.
He was certainly much revived; he had recovered all his usual power of work: the illness might have been mere fatigue, and there might still be twenty years of achievement before him, which would justify the thirty years of preparation.
Casaubon hated him—he knew that very well; on his first entrance he could discern a bitterness in the mouth and a venom in the glance which would almost justify declaring war in spite of past benefits.
Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen.
" This kind of answer given in a measured official tone, as of a clergyman reading according to the rubric, did not help to justify the glories of the Eternal City, or to give her the hope that if she knew more about them the world would be joyously illuminated for her.
The thing which seemed to her best, she wanted to justify by the completest knowledge; and not to live in a pretended admission of rules which were never acted on.
All the while her thought was trying to justify her delight in the colors by merging them in her mystic religious joy.
Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it.
If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause.
And yet how many were the examples to justify even the blackest suspicions!
I do not think anything would justify me in wishing you to sacrifice all your happiness merely to oblige my brother, because he is my brother, and who perhaps after all, you know, might be just as happy without you, for people seldom know what they would be at, young men especially, they are so amazingly changeable and inconstant.
Was she to deflect it from its intended destination, which alone had appeared to justify her keeping it, and spend it on giving herself pleasure?
" "It" was a small matter that had, somehow, stuck in her mind more persistently than its importance seemed to justify.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
