Sophia (who though naturally all winning sweetness could when occasions demanded it call forth the Dignity of her sex) instantly put on a most forbidding look, and darting an angry frown on the undaunted culprit, demanded in a haughty tone of voice "Wherefore her retirement was thus insolently broken in on?" The unblushing Macdonald, without even endeavouring to exculpate himself from the crime he was charged with, meanly endeavoured to reproach Sophia with ignobly defrauding him of his money .

This is the matter, gentlemen; answer and exculpate yourselves, for I stand here to accuse you."

He did not, however, endeavour to exculpate himself; but took a method which almost equally confounded me.

Two months passed away in hopeless expectation on my part, while I must do the magistrate the justice to say that he used every means to obtain information of the person I declared could exculpate me if he would.

He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives.

As soon as the good soul knew the real cause of it all, he sacrificed himself generously, took upon himself all the blame of my reserve, and tried to exculpate me, but all to no purpose.

In his judgment, Sequerah said since Randall had also been arrested on the same day and had in his possession a bag containing women's clothing with the tag in Vania's name while Vania was carrying a bag containing man's clothing with a tag in Randall's name showed the duo had devised a clever scheme to attempt to evade detection and to exculpate themselves should they be found out.

"The people who are responsible are the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and anything you do to exculpate them is, I think, a great shame."

The court noted that the defendant, Christopher Rivera, had not provided the police with a false alibi or comparable information that would exculpate the killer, a false narrative of the crime that would give the killer a defense, or false information to assist in the killer's escape.

However, the passenger tried to exculpate the driver saying 'he did not dose off and that there was no fault of his.'

The President of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick, showing leadership qualities, accepted responsibility for the slip, but he also admitted that the touted excuses were not sufficient to exculpate the body from the displayed negligence.