shrive
Example Sentences
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No play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A priest, a priest," sayes Aldingar,185 "While I am a man alive; "A priest, a priest," sayes Aldingar, "Me for to houzle and shrive.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
And Padre Lorenzo came––but he would not shrive her little white soul––” “And the father––?”
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
"What I need to do is to shrive myself, I guess, and then get up an inquisition, with myself as chief inquisitor."
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill
Saint Petronila shrive me! when we became most intimate, and after much beating about the bush, I discovered that his master— Perez.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
Vocabulary lists containing shrive
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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The Merchant of Venice
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Mardi Gras: Faith
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