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

Bien, I will go in and shrive his wicked soul!”

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

"Come hither, hither, Friar John, And count your rosarie, And shrive this sinful gentleman, Under the greenwood tree!"

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

I pray thee, shrive me, that my guilty soul May quit in peace this tenement of clay.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

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