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
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
At the same time he entreated that a Catholic priest should be sent for to shrive him—that he had been brought up in the Catholic faith, but that he had neglected religion when in health.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Barry, Joseph
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
For the love o' God, a priest to shrive a dying sinner.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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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