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  • So her penance was extra-good: She promised to take me to the mall and buy me football cards.†   (source)
  • One hour, he told himself, grateful that the Teacher had given him time to carry out the necessary penance before entering a house of God.†   (source)
  • "His idea of penance," Nana said.†   (source)
  • She would do penance this year.†   (source)
  • Even so, sitting around the pool felt like a kind of penance.†   (source)
  • But I get the impression she's taken on nursing as a sort of penance.†   (source)
  • "My fate and my penance," she began to lament, pulling her long fingers through her hair, "to live here on the moon, while my husband lives on the sun.†   (source)
  • The longer you hide, the sterner the penance.†   (source)
  • For your penance say three Hail Marys, three Our Fathers, and say a special prayer for me.†   (source)
  • I'd remembered and I demanded penance.†   (source)
  • You'll quickly lose a hand in 'penance.'†   (source)
  • Being always the first to spot flaws and transgressions, it falls upon Father to deliver penance.†   (source)
  • I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to confess my sins, to do penance, And to amend my life, Amen.†   (source)
  • By night he studied music, science, medicine — and found his calling, his penance, in that, in saving human lives.†   (source)
  • One of the boxcars has been turned into a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise, and evangelical CentroAmencans are lined up to do their penance and speak in tongues below the neon Elvis.†   (source)
  • Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are.†   (source)
  • All that and any other penance you desire.†   (source)
  • Van Horn says there's now a chance to pay penance for the sin of shutting the state mental hospitals decades earlier and never following up on the promise of community programs to pick up the slack.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had made no propositions to her in ten years, a hard penance for his original error, and she had helped him in everything except that.†   (source)
  • I'm going to have to do double duty in the gym as penance for the huge piece I'm going to ask for."†   (source)
  • The Angel of the candy counter had found me out at last, and was exacting excruciating penance for all the stolen Milky Ways, Mounds, Mr. Goodbars and Hersheys with Almonds.†   (source)
  • She had lain cheek and jowl with the concept of penance since she had been old enough to reason.†   (source)
  • Hera made him crazy, and Hercules had to do the penance?†   (source)
  • He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance.†   (source)
  • At approach distance she smelled laundered and starched, steam-ironed, and her nails were buffed to a glassy lava finish, and the rosary beads that hung from her belt like a zoot-suiter's key chain were blinky bright, and when she rustled low and near she smelled more intimately of tooth powder and cleansing agents and the penance of scoured skin.†   (source)
  • In the Army that situation would have been taken care of in a matter of a few painful minutes, with a months-long penance by the transgressor to follow.†   (source)
  • It was my penance.†   (source)
  • Part of me-a small part, growing smaller by the minute-demands penance.†   (source)
  • "I feel I've done my penance.†   (source)
  • Others were summoned as a means of penance, or to avenge a wrongdoing.†   (source)
  • I saw myself turning on a knife then, languishing in a day-to-day suffering which I found as necessary as penance from the confessional, truly hoping death would find me unawares and render me ft for eternal pardon.†   (source)
  • Do penance!†   (source)
  • This was penance for what he had done to Jasik, and he deserved every nightmarish bolt of pain.†   (source)
  • It felt like a penance invented by the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • "It's my pleasure," I lied, and mentally marked the rosary I'd say later as penance.†   (source)
  • They prayed and fasted and did penance-—all in an effort to hasten his coming.†   (source)
  • He had always seen this as his minor penance, infinitesimally small when compared to the trials of Moses or Job.†   (source)
  • "Speaking generally," he said, "no penance is like having one's picture done."†   (source)
  • And yet the good father does not knit his brow in rage at such times, but deals the necessary penances with love in his eyes, in hope of his children's betterment.†   (source)
  • Maybe my ice-cold environment was the perfect penance for my stupidity.†   (source)
  • Such penances had been sent before: the expulsion from Eden, the Flood, pestilences, the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, the Captivity.†   (source)
  • He will volunteer to scrub toilets at a London shelter for the poor—a penance that he will continue to perform long after Queen Elizabeth restores his social status in 1975 by making him a Commander of the British Empire.†   (source)
  • I am the first man who would not do penance for my virtues or let them be used as the tools of my destruction.†   (source)
  • Our headmistress allots me thirty conduct marks, and in penance, I am to do her bidding for a week.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, sir, it is time for you to join the papist Catholics and fulfill your life's true aspiration of dispensing forgiveness and penance at your own leisure and discretion.†   (source)
  • The great demon bowed his horned head and kneeled, his leathery wings folded about him in an attitude of penance.†   (source)
  • As penance I baby-sat Oliver all night while Stephie took Mom out to talk.†   (source)
  • But I found myself instead struggling for breath, the simple draw of it, my still weakened lungs smarting with each gasp, and whatever life-spirit I possessed at that moment I felt desperate to abdicate, if but for empathy and the wish for a penance that would likely never come.†   (source)
  • He came to accept his penance with stoicism, heeding Bruenor's commands without question or complaint.†   (source)
  • For his penance, Gabriel was forced to make the British services nonvoting partners in his operations.†   (source)
  • It was her penance for having taken those lilacs in from the mailbox.†   (source)
  • I shall buy drinks as penance for my ignorance.†   (source)
  • A kind of penance.†   (source)
  • Then at last I saw Nathan slowly sink to his knees on the hard pavement, where, surrounding Sophie's legs with his arms, he remained motionless for what seemed an interminable time, frozen in an attitude of devotion, or fealty, or penance, or supplication—or all of these.†   (source)
  • He sewed to the end of the sinew and drew another strand from his mouth, remembering the penance trip up the mountain.†   (source)
  • He held them one by one against his chest, giving the black man an anxious open-mouthed smile every time, and then looking down at what he was showing, so that, with his head bowed over his drawings, and with the cringe that was already there, he looked like a man doing penance, displaying one sin after another.†   (source)
  • He seized the word boldly, like a penance, and seized it again.†   (source)
  • Into being a priest, into this arrogance, into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance.†   (source)
  • I'm ready to smash everything to smithereens And make all kneel in schoolboy penance.†   (source)
  • Saint Serena, on her knees, doing penance.†   (source)
  • Not talking to him was her penance for what had happened to Simon.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he sought a measure of penance in the hardship of the journey.†   (source)
  • It was shaped like an Aturan penance piece, but it gleamed silver in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • Seclusion in Panama was almost an obligatory penance in the life of the rich.†   (source)
  • But, like Mil's letter, Kabul's penance has arrived too late.†   (source)
  • But I'm afraid this is your penance for sixteen years of pulling up your nose at my cooking.†   (source)
  • She suffered like the martyrs in olden times and God knows that's penance enough.†   (source)
  • She had not suffered enough for her sins, her penance was yet to begin.†   (source)
  • That was her penance, her payment for what she'd done to Simon.†   (source)
  • This is my penance, Cersei told herself.†   (source)
  • Public penance … scourging himself with whips….'†   (source)
  • Seven years of penance as a begging brother.†   (source)
  • The more I could make her love me, the more her penance might weigh in the balance to equal her sin.†   (source)
  • He offered to give Grover away in penance, but Helen said, How about if he called Old Chao instead?†   (source)
  • Just confess, do your penance, be done with it.†   (source)
  • Then do your penances that you may be cleansed.†   (source)
  • She's a few days of penance left, by my ledger.†   (source)
  • Only now did I recognize the severity of the penance I'd enforced by sleeping apart.†   (source)
  • "Give him a penance!" the girls chanted and pointed accusing fingers at the pale Horse.†   (source)
  • That's why he had to do those twelve labors as penance."†   (source)
  • It is for Him to decide who shall suffer; He, and the vicars he appoints to give you penances.†   (source)
  • "You should have given me a penance," he said.†   (source)
  • The depression that comes with fasting and strict penance deepened as Lent drew to its completion.†   (source)
  • "For your penance say a rosary to the Virgin," I said weakly.†   (source)
  • Really, the only one who ever asked any questions was Florence, and today he was doing penance.†   (source)
  • You don't have to do any penance," I answered.†   (source)
  • Not the bear hunt, but the penance journey up the mountain.†   (source)
  • Chaos is the penance for leisure.†   (source)
  • She appears to act in the household as a sort of unpaid servant, though whether this service is viewed by her as a favour or a penance, I have yet to ascertain; nor will it be an easy task, as the gentle Grace, having been hardened in the fire now for some fifteen years, will be a very hard nut to crack.†   (source)
  • Parwana envies her brother, but she does not entirely begrudge him even if he does—she knows that there is more than an element of penance in the monthly cash that he brings her.†   (source)
  • She had been shocked to learn that female numeraries were forced to clean the men's residence halls for no pay while the men were at mass; women slept on hardwood floors, while the men had straw mats; and women were forced to endure additional requirements of corporal mortification… all as added penance for original sin.†   (source)
  • If a person had displeased him in any way during the year, that person would do penance come Christmas.†   (source)
  • I could hide behind the door, wait until she comes, hobbles along the hall, bearing whatever sentence, penance, punishment, jump out at her, knock her down, kick her sharply and accurately in the head.†   (source)
  • Bailey was obviously always going to be too small to be an athlete, so which concrete angel glued to what country seat had decided that if my brother wanted to become a lawyer he had to first pay penance for his skin by picking cotton and hoeing corn and studying correspondence books at night for twenty years?†   (source)
  • Sometimes he falls asleep and I don't have the heart to wake him up so I go to Communion the next day without penance or absolution.†   (source)
  • She was sure that her honor was the subject of gossip even before her husband had finished his penance, and the feeling of humiliation that this produced in her was much less tolerable than the shame and anger and injustice caused by his infidelity.†   (source)
  • They had been half hearted tokens of penance, in sincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers.†   (source)
  • But after the death of his father he learned all there was to know about the different forms of cholera, almost as a penance to appease his memory, and he studied with the most outstanding epidemiologist of his time and the creator of the cordons sanitaires, Professor Adrien Proust, father of the great novelist.†   (source)
  • His idea of penance.†   (source)
  • Ah … ah … tell your grandmother to wash God away with a little water and for your penance say one Hail Mary and one Our Father.†   (source)
  • No penance, Father?†   (source)
  • I assign the penance.†   (source)
  • This person, the boy her mother was holding as if he were her penance, was not Sebastian, who had tormented and murdered and wrought destruction.†   (source)
  • Penance?†   (source)
  • Going barefoot was my penance.†   (source)
  • He stripped the silver shop until all that were left were impersonal objects, he gave his clothes away to the orderlies, and he buried his weapons in the courtyard with the same feeling of penance with which his father had buried the spear that had killed Prudencio Aguilar.†   (source)
  • We'll do penance.†   (source)
  • "But for your penance," he said, "you shall find the monster responsible for this outrage and bring me his head on a plate."†   (source)
  • Inflamed, not so much because of the damage as because of the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o-nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of mortification and penance, and drove the children out of the house, howling like a madman and whipping them without mercy as a person would not even have done to a pack of coyotes.†   (source)
  • Each night, I said three consecutive rosaries—penance for lying to Father Walter—but I had to be there.†   (source)
  • It does not matter who then becomes the profiteer on his renounced glory and tormented soul, a mystic God with some incomprehensible design or any passer-by whose rotting sores are held as some inexplicable claim upon him-it does not matter, the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance, atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts, his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.†   (source)
  • There can be no penance without pain.†   (source)
  • The penance of Tribulation that had been put upon the world must be worked out, the long climb faithfully retraced, and, at last, if the temptations by the way were resisted, there would be the reward of forgiveness — the restoration of the Golden Age.†   (source)
  • He proclaimed that her weakness and her failure to make adequate penance would force them to mortify their flesh all the more severely.†   (source)
  • It'd have been a public shaming on a Sunday, a week of penances, and a tenth of all he had,' he told me, forcibly.†   (source)
  • He spoke quietly to her, asking her to make restitution of the money she had ehoused, and gave her a penance.†   (source)
  • And for her to think that you might abet her, when she knows that you yourself have had to make your own penances twice!†   (source)
  • "Make his penance hard," Rita leered.†   (source)
  • But where there is no acknowledgement of guilt and penance done for the wrong, there can be no forgiveness—†   (source)
  • "Give me a penance!" he growled.†   (source)
  • Give him a penance!†   (source)
  • Make him do penance!†   (source)
  • What was your penance?†   (source)
  • And yet my penance hasn't been enough.†   (source)
  • I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing.†   (source)
  • No crime or transgression had been actually named and no penance had been actually set.†   (source)
  • He was young, kind, tolerant and easy on the penances.†   (source)
  • It was not exactly that I felt I owed Lucy Stark a debt, or had to make restitution, or do penance.†   (source)
  • And as for penance, there had been no crime for which I should do it.†   (source)
  • "I had done penance for one sin," said Lancelot.†   (source)
  • She resolved that no matter what penance Father gave her, she would triple it voluntarily.†   (source)
  • Thus I must undergo the penance of Hampton Court at seven thirty precisely.†   (source)
  • He gave out the penance, quickly, harshly, mechanically.†   (source)
  • Aghast, he flees to a rock in the sea, and there does penance for his very life.†   (source)
  • If you were clean confessed, and had done penance and been absolved—†   (source)
  • She said her penance using her mother-of-pearl rosary to keep count of the prayers.†   (source)
  • When he had complimented me as I was telling ye, he counselled I should make a penance.†   (source)
  • Bora went, the first day, and he took a penance too.†   (source)
  • A penance has been offered for Gareth's blood by means of which the war may be brought to an end.†   (source)
  • Won't you give peace to our country, if I make a penance?†   (source)
  • One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love—I scarcely dare say it—but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?†   (source)
  • But think, Thomas, think of glory after death, When king is dead, there's another king, And one more king is another reign, King is forgotten, when another shall come : Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb, Think, Thomas, think of enemies dismayed, Creeping in penance, frightened of a shade; Think of pilgrims, standing in line Before the glittering jewelled shrine, From generation to generation Bending the knee in supplication.†   (source)
  • Father said it was because Mr Coldfield did not believe it would work, that they would get away with it, only he couldn't quit thinking about it, and so when they tried it and it failed he (Mr Coldfield) would be able to get it out of his mind then; and that when it did fail and they were caught, Mr Goldfield would insist on taking his share of the blame as penance and expiation for having sinned in his mind all those years.†   (source)
  • They did not look like workers, they looked like a chain gang serving an unspeakable penance for some unspeakable crime.†   (source)
  • When the child, however, at the instigation of the devil, one day had stood staring at a lady for some time, suddenly he blushed for himself, and entered the icy water of a pond in penance, where he remained until frozen to his bones.†   (source)
  • Later these walks became a penance.†   (source)
  • The boy was doing a multiple penance—he had committed his first great wrong in being at once so remote from them and so near to them.†   (source)
  • You don't need a penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough,' and to this other, 'Lust is not the worst thing.†   (source)
  • In her room also I could do penance.†   (source)
  • He had brought it with him, and was told to take it to the Pope as a penance—he became very holy after that.†   (source)
  • And, for her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie's face changing from fond love and trust to incredulous horror and repulsion.†   (source)
  • The Indians themselves sometimes practised continence as a penance, or as a strong medicine with the spirits, and they were very willing that their Padre should practise it for them.†   (source)
  • I wish there were a penance for it that one could commence now because it is the only thing that I have done in all my life that makes me feel badly when I am alone.†   (source)
  • Like Apollo, who did his penance to the high god in the sad house of King Admetus, he came, a god with broken feet, into the gray hovel of this world.†   (source)
  • But during the penance she set herself for this impudence the thought came to her to send for Captain Alvarado.†   (source)
  • But I have sponsored him under the masthead of my paper, and if public penance is a strange, humiliating act to perform in our modern age, such is the punishment I impose upon myself hereby.†   (source)
  • Confess your sins and do penance for them in sorrow and contrition," Ellen had told her a hundred times and, in this crisis, Ellen's religious training came back and gripped her.†   (source)
  • Those are the thoughts that will wake me leaping in anguish in the middle of the night—the crimes for which one would do penance in all the markets of the world bareheaded; that one did not go to Hampton Court that day.†   (source)
  • After discovery of this second incest, Gregory remained seventeen years in penance, chained to a rock in the middle of the sea.†   (source)
  • If we no longer have religion after the war then I think there must be some form of civic penance organized that all may be cleansed from the killing or else we will never have a true and human basis for living.†   (source)
  • My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly.†   (source)
  • Oh, that was too hard a penance, she thought in anguish, to have to live out her life remembering Melanie's face, knowing that Melanie knew all the pettiness, the meanness, the two-faced disloyalty and the hypocrisy that were in her.†   (source)
  • The great penance.†   (source)
  • King Oedipus came to know that the woman he had married was his mother, the man he had slain his father; he plucked his eyes out and wandered in penance over the earth.†   (source)
  • The killing is necessary, I know, but still the doing of it is very bad for a man and I think that, after all this is over and we have won the war, there must be a penance of some kind for the cleansing of us all.†   (source)
  • I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing.†   (source)
  • "Neither by the Vedas, nor by penances, nor by alms-giving, nor yet by sacrifice, am I to be seen in the form in which you have just now beheld Me," Krsna declared, after he had resumed his familiar shape; "but only by devotion * Jainism i. a heterodox Hindu religion (i. e… rejecting the authority of the Vedas) which in its iconography reveals certain extraordinarily archaic traits.†   (source)
  • "The penance was to wear the hair shirt of a certain dead religious that we knew of," he went on at last, defeated.†   (source)
  • An errant knight stands in a posture which should make the penance needless—as I shewed him—the like that manual labourers dinna fast in Lent.†   (source)
  • I was given a penance.†   (source)
  • "You come around to the hotel to-morrow," she said, as sort of penance for error.†   (source)
  • He was still, indeed, doing penance for it.†   (source)
  • I'd do penance for being wicked that way.†   (source)
  • I owe that to you, darling, in penance for how I overruled it at the first time.†   (source)
  • I never knew such a woman for doing impulsive penances, as you, Sue!†   (source)
  • Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy!†   (source)
  • "That is no light part of my penance," pursued the Ghost.†   (source)
  • And if he should do great penances, yet are they but little.†   (source)
  • The vocal mothers consult after each confession and inflict the penance aloud.†   (source)
  • I will do penance and find my River alone.'†   (source)
  • The elder absolved, reconciled, exhorted, imposed penance, blessed, and dismissed them.†   (source)
  • 'It would be no great penance,' said Rosa Dartle, 'for your crimes.†   (source)
  • So now her head no more she'll lift, But do church-penance in her sinner's shift!†   (source)
  • Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment.†   (source)
  • Joyfully will I submit to any penance he shall assign me.†   (source)
  • This is a common penance, often imposed on a fat trader by his spiritual teacher.†   (source)
  • It's more than a Catholic penance, and does no more good.†   (source)
  • From that period his penance had become severe.†   (source)
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