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

"What I need to do is to shrive myself, I guess, and then get up an inquisition, with myself as chief inquisitor."

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

But,' he said, 'is it not needful to the lay people that cannot thus do, to go shrive them to priests?'

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Would you in heaven not assuage and shrive me?

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

"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