beg to be excused
Example Sentences
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"You mean that if I were to tell you now that I had changed my mind, and was quite ready to go away with you, you'd beg to be excused?"
From The Tigress by Warner, Anne
Miss Mayo entered the office at the Empire determined to throw herself upon the managerial mercy and beg to be excused from the commission.
From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
And if you asked me to describe the viands, or the glorious juiciness of the giant joints, or the supreme immensity of the lofty pudding, I should simply beg to be excused.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
As things were, he must beg to be excused.
From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian
"I beg to be excused," was the reply.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
