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

"Let me, at the least, shrive this man's soul ere it be hurled into eternity," said the palmer, stepping forward.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

Katharine said: 'Why, I pray God that you may die on the green grass yet, with time for a priest to shrive you.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

Would you in heaven not assuage and shrive me?

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

Comest thou hither to shrive me to-night, ere thou doomest me to the wheel to-morrow?

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin