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shrive

[shrahyv] / ʃraɪv /


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No play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, I am obsessed with the sweet indecision Of having met a poet who will shrive me in verse, Drape my life with the vigor of his youth Yet never kiss me.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

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 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

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




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