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

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

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

"Come hither, hither, Friar John, And count your rosarie, And shrive this sinful gentleman, Under the greenwood tree!"

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

For he caught a glimpse of an ag�d crone Who knelt beside a coffin alone; She had sold her cloak to shrive the dead And buy a crucifix!

From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee

Then he kneeled, and prayed the bishop to shrive and absolve him, beseeching that he might accept him as his brother in the faith.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles