accept apology
Example Sentences
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And now her beauty was less victorious over him than that swift pride which could rebuke so delicately, that good-sportsmanship which could so instantly accept apology.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
It is not denied that they did many things for which the world has been exceedingly slow to accept apology or excuse.
From Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J. C. Lester
Though always ready to accept apology and grant an oblivion of the past, he never would avow compunction which he did not feel, or confess that he had deserved the treatment which he had received.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
Though willing to accept apology and grant an oblivion of the past, I will never avow a penitence which I do not feel, or confess that I deserved the treatment I received.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
To accept apology for them and not for his honour would surely be too barefaced!
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
