expiatory offering

Example Sentences

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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

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

He had, too, a half-defined feeling that in thus tempting fate still further, he made a sort of expiatory offering for his actual guilt.

From The Philistines by Bates, Arlo

They explained to Kieft the occurrence, and proposed the expiatory offering to appease the widow's grief.

From Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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