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

The good to others done while here I strive Is all at last that shall my dying shrive; And, setting sail, my slight self-conquest's store Is all my freight if I shall come to shore.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

At the same time he entreated that a Catholic priest should be sent for to shrive him—that he had been brought up in the Catholic faith, but that he had neglected religion when in health.

From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Barry, Joseph

Priests might shrive for broken laws, but for a broken heart what remedy was there?

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

Katharine said: 'Why, I pray God that you may die on the green grass yet, with time for a priest to shrive you.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox