The differences of castes…furnish a copious stock of extenuations…to different classes of offences.

But Emily's excuse could not be gainsayed—she had that morning received news of the death of Lady Alicia Delawarr.

January 23, 2022, Gabriel M. Lezama, “The Joys of Copium”, in NOISE, volume 66, number 4, TheSpectrum:

with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise