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

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

"And I shrive you, sir, and bid good fortune go with you," answered the doctor.

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

For the sake of Simon Peter, Who so gladly would us shrive, We are walking in the sunlight, We are breathing and alive.

From Two Fishers, and Other Poems by Palmer, Herbert Edward

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