expiatory offering

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The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

The clothes thus taken were then all solemnly burned, as an expiatory offering, with invocations to the shade of Melissa.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

It is left for me—I, who am the last of them, to put up some expiatory offering, I expect.

From The Man and the Moment by Glyn, Elinor

It was proposed to burn it, but mark the reply; they advise not only to send it back, but also to offer an expiatory offering for the sin of the warriors.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

I fancy it has been used to hold something, perhaps a bracelet, which this Myro gave to Venus as an expiatory offering, for Myro was an unlucky lover.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper