beg to be excused
Example Sentences
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I must beg to be excused, my dear, from hinting at anything for the future, of public persons or things.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
Say that an urgent matter has just cropped up and beg to be excused.
From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo
Ages seemed to have passed before she was able to rise slowly, to smile, to beg to be excused a moment.
From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto
"I beg to be excused," was the reply.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Some men have eaten grizzly liver, but I beg to be excused.
From The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Hough, Emerson
