"Exculpatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are not controverted or affected by any exculpatory or mitigating testimony, show the murder of a number of Chinese subjects in September last at Rock Springs, the wounding of many others, and the spoliation of the property of all when the unhappy survivors had been driven from their habitations. There is no allegation ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland
... After breaking off his engagement he wrote me a long letter, explanatory, as he called it; exculpatory, as I termed it. I wrote back, curtly enough, saying that I regretted the breaking-off of an intercourse which had always been very pleasant to me, but that he must be aware that, with my intimacy with the family at Ford Bank, it would ...
— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell
... of Wakefield pursued, and the hopes and fears of an affectionate woman: News of Philip: An artless exculpatory tale ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft |
