The family alleged the need for travel suddenly ordered by the doctor of the house dipped into this excuse necessary; [...]. - (Honoré de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, 1844)
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I made the captain reprimand on his reckless driving [...]. He tried to excuse himself by claiming more or less absurd reasons .... - (Dillon, travel in the South Sea, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1830, tome 1)
There is no exaggeration to claim that, for the first time in the history of mankind, people were supplied more than their fill, [...]. - (.. H. G. Wells, The War in the Air, 1908, translation by Henry Davray-D and B. Kozakiewicz, Mercure de France, Paris, 1910, p 407 of the 1921 ed.)
They allege that still something was done. Is ! very little. And this little thing he had to give. - (Joseph Caillaux, my memoirs, I, My youth arrogant, 1942)
I alleged thousand causes of delay; I took out the utility of continuing to D *** some courses that I could not follow in Göttingen; [...]. - (Benjamin Constant, Literary Writings (1800-1813), ed M. Niemeyer.