atonement

Example Sentences

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I dole them out equally, these offerings, these atonements, into the waiting hands of my friends.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

We are going to have processions and atonements, and we will all go together, Joseph, Catherine, and I. We shall be the first, and everybody will say, 'They are good royalists, they are well disposed.'

From Waterloo A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian

It would have been unfair to Mr. Brosnan to say that he sympathised with murderers, or that he agreed with those who considered that midnight outrages were fair atonements; he demanded rights.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony

If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and 30 compremises between you.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

For the acts which have been committed are of such a nature, that, if the whole army participated in them, they could not be expiated without atonements of tremendous magnitude.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus