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
"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
The priest obeys the summons, anxious to shrive a sinning soul, and to send her out of the world if not to Paradise, at least to Purgatory.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
I pray thee, shrive me, that my guilty soul May quit in peace this tenement of clay.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
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
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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