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
He will her shrive for all this gear, and give her penance straight; Wese have our nee'le, else dame Chat comes ne'er within heaven-gate.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of
Comest thou hither to shrive me to-night, ere thou doomest me to the wheel to-morrow?
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
Then he came again this afternoon and said she must die; but he would shrive her for two pesos.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
Since ye gave me blame herein"— Toll slowly— "That a bridal such as mine should lack gauds to make it fine, Come and shrive me from that sin.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Vocabulary lists containing shrive
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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The Merchant of Venice
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Mardi Gras: Faith
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