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
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The Franciscans of Eperies are sent to shrive the Catholics, the pastors of Great Leta to comfort the Protestants.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
For he caught a glimpse of an ag�d crone Who knelt beside a coffin alone; She had sold her cloak to shrive the dead And buy a crucifix!
From Songs and Satires by Masters, Edgar Lee
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
By our Lady, I will go with you!" he cried, "to shrive the dying.
From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
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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