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Examples
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I have seen daylilies for sale with the label Pardon Me that are not that daylily, so be aware of what it should look like.
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Jefferson Davis while he lived considered it a point of honor to REFUSE to ask for a Pardon from the United States.
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Pardon is the only way to overcome the legal and social consequences of conviction, since a federal conviction cannot be expunged.
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/U.K. is the fact that certain words and expressions in English with a hint of Francophobia, as well as some French words and sayings of an Anglophobic nature, have largely fallen into disuse The expression Pardon my French was once a popular way of saying “excuse my bad language.”
Pardon my French Rene Meertens 2010
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Prince, “Pardon is better than vengeance and mercy is of the quality of the noble;” and the King repeated,
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A Pardon is just another way of freezing a scandal.
Think Progress » Right Wing Urges Bush to Pardon Scooter Libby 2006
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A Pardon is just another way of freezing a scandal.
Think Progress » Right Wing Urges Bush to Pardon Scooter Libby 2006
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Many of them would have done this but Ket said, No. Pardon is for rebels.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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Luther said to the Pope, This thing of yours that you call a Pardon of Sins, it is a bit of rag-paper with ink.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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How to Survive a Horror Movie and another called Pardon My President, which was letters of apology from George Bush to all the people that he had wronged.
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