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 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
He will her shrive for all this gear, and give her penance straight; Wese have our nee'le, else dame Chat comes ne'er within heaven-gate.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of
The poor wretch made answer for himself, crying out piteously and in a choking voice, for a priest to shrive him.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
The good to others done while here I strive Is all at last that shall my dying shrive; And, setting sail, my slight self-conquest's store Is all my freight if I shall come to shore.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
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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