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Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death.

From Time Magazine Archive

Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being; alone even in Morgana’s embrace—much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Their presence awakens in us certain emotions, conflicts of passion, as we think of the good that we should do, but have not done, or of the evil that goes unremedied and unatoned for.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

She said, better men lay unatoned in many places, Gunnar said, she might have her way in beginning a quarrel, "but how the matter is to be settled rests with me".

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe