beg to be excused

Example Sentences

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There's really nothing left for me but to beg to be excused.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

I must stop now, as I fear I have already let my pen run on for too long, and must beg to be excused for this voluminous letter.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

As things were, he must beg to be excused.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

But were he to become insistent and ask me to look into the matter for myself, I should beg to be excused.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

In love, Madame de Montbazon was very mercenary; we say it once for all, and beg to be excused from citing proof of the assertion.

From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883