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

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

Bien, I will go in and shrive his wicked soul!”

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

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

The Franciscans of Eperies are sent to shrive the Catholics, the pastors of Great Leta to comfort the Protestants.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór