expiatory offering

Example Sentences

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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)

Caesar's death might be regarded as a sacrifice, an expiatory offering for the sins of the nation; and the divided parties might embrace in virtue of the atonement.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

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

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