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  • In the evening, I tried to write a personal essay for English, but I'd never written an essay before—except for the ones on sin and repentance, which no one had ever read—and I didn't know how.†   (source)
  • Related words: rue, repent, mourn, grieve.†   (source)
  • "It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks," intones the mayor.†   (source)
  • "Every head bowed and every eye closed," said Graham, offering a traditional invitation to repentance, a declaration of faith, and absolution.†   (source)
  • Repent!†   (source)
  • For the rest of his life, he never mentioned Ye Wenjie, and we do not know if he ever felt remorse or repented for his actions.†   (source)
  • I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.†   (source)
  • When they were caught and sent back, the mullah's son was flogged before he repented and said that Naghma had seduced him with her feminine charms.†   (source)
  • Unless he repents, nobody speaks to him for the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • He's got to repent and feel humiliation and regret.†   (source)
  • He says that if you accept Jesus and repent, you get excused'like religion is just some giant freebie hall pass that gets you out of anything and everything.†   (source)
  • I mean ....with Snapes history ...of course people were bound to wonder....but Dumbledore told me explicitly that Snape's repentance was absolutely genuine—Wouldn't hear a word against him!†   (source)
  • Repent for what you did!†   (source)
  • "If Lord Eddard were to confess his crime," she said at last, "we would know he had repented his folly."†   (source)
  • Inwardly, he was repentant.†   (source)
  • She thought all Janine's sniveling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.†   (source)
  • So you repented.†   (source)
  • I go to confession and they hiss that I'm not in a proper spirit of repentance, that if I were I'd give up this hideous sin.†   (source)
  • Back in his room, Rameck prayed silently, repentant but unable to change what had happened.†   (source)
  • It's because of just that decision, which I repent wholeheartedly, that I'm asking you to reconsider.†   (source)
  • Kit shortly repented her offer.†   (source)
  • As soon as the painting was finished, two new rituals, Morning Repentance and Evening Report, began.†   (source)
  • He wants to come off as a good, repentant guy.†   (source)
  • I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past.†   (source)
  • Anyone exposed as a practitioner of White Imagination was sentenced to a slow, work-slogged death-shipped off to the Crystal Mines, just as practitioners of Black Imagination had been in Genevieve's time, but whereas then the emphasis had been on hard work and repentance with a chance for freedom, prisoners were now purposely worked past all endurance.†   (source)
  • You are a glorious, destructive mess, Mackenzie, but you are not here to repent, at least not in the way that you understand.†   (source)
  • Regret, repent, and cross to me.†   (source)
  • He didn't sound repentant, so I ignored him.†   (source)
  • He can be less angry, less confused, more repentant, whatever you want.†   (source)
  • Afterward I always felt guilty and recited the Repentance Psalm: "Have mercy upon me, O God, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies."†   (source)
  • He sounded sulky, wanting to be repentant: a little boy.†   (source)
  • There's lots of hard work to be done on repenting for sins.†   (source)
  • But he went even further: he said that a good-for-nothing who has squandered all his father's inheritance— or a humble publican who has pocketed official funds— is righteous before God when he repents and prays for forgiveness, so great is God's mercy.†   (source)
  • Repent, sinners, foul carrion, unworthy of our Lord's great sacrifice!†   (source)
  • But a short time later, he came home acting repentant, got on his knees, and begged her forgiveness.†   (source)
  • In any case, he was going to send a wreath of gardenias in the event that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had repented at the last moment.†   (source)
  • All are repentant, all are preparing themselves for the shock of the laying of the ashes on the forehead and the priest's agonizing words, "Thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return.†   (source)
  • Of course, I didn't believe in life after death or the virgin birth or the Inquisition or the infallibility of that little monkey-faced Pope or anything, but I didn't have to let the priest see this, I could just concentrate on my sin, and he would help me repent.†   (source)
  • Sally bowed and scraped and did everything but throv, herself on the floor and beg for mercy, like a repentant criminal in one of the novels Jane wasn't supposed to read.†   (source)
  • He instantly repented his unkingly manner.†   (source)
  • I talked with Mark extensively after his suicide attempt, and he's been quite repentant.†   (source)
  • He was repentant and wanted to come home.†   (source)
  • She was touched by the gentleness in his caress and immediately repentant of her attitude in the car.†   (source)
  • Long says it's about "how we all stray from the Word of God in our lives, and how only repentance can show us the way back.†   (source)
  • Watching Woodrow Call awkwardly handling his fork caused her to repent a little of her harshness when he arrived, but she didn't apologize.†   (source)
  • But have we repented and given him the glory ?†   (source)
  • 'Okay, Yossarian,' she answered with a soft repentant laugh.†   (source)
  • Then he brought out a vial of bleach and said putting repentance into our lives was much like the bleach.†   (source)
  • They will repent in the morning.†   (source)
  • Do not repent of your welcome to the Dwarf.†   (source)
  • Repent of evil!†   (source)
  • The day after Elinor Mompellion and I delivered the Daniels' baby, I had repented of my theft and taken the stolen phial of poppy to the rectory, meaning to somehow slip it back into Mrs. Mompellion's whisket before its loss was noticed.†   (source)
  • Jem put his hand on her head and said, "Young lady, do you repent?"†   (source)
  • So, there I was riding the elevator up to my dad's office, rehearsing my little repentance speech, and imagining my dad's relief to see me and hear how sorry I am about all this.†   (source)
  • It throbbed with nostalgia, regret and repentance, and I sat with a lump in my throat as she sank slowly down; not a sitting but a controlled collapsing, as though she were balancing, sustaining the simmering bubble of her final tone by some delicate rhythm of her heart's blood, or by some mystic concentration of her being, focused upon the sound through the contained liquid of her large uplifted eyes.†   (source)
  • Pillar of Fire Repentance Tabernacle—†   (source)
  • Neither can I. "You can accept our repentance," said Lillian, in a voice glassy with caution.†   (source)
  • We would all kneel while he proclaimed our repentance and led prayers for forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Confess, repent—and make amends.†   (source)
  • Repentance?†   (source)
  • We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.†   (source)
  • When Sara Kate told Everleen she'd made a dreadful mistake, Everleen said, "Repent, sinner and go thy way, and sin no more.†   (source)
  • They are now in church or at home repenting, leaving the local merchants to lament the momentary loss of the booming business they've enjoyed the past few days.†   (source)
  • It happened before I repented and was one of the reasons I needed to repent.†   (source)
  • REPENT!†   (source)
  • He spoke quickly, as if to give himself no time to repent of his offer, and hurried away even before my husband had assented.†   (source)
  • So let them call him a Red-lover, that was fine, when men was scared and mad they said things that later they repented of.†   (source)
  • Most of what he said about knowing God, repenting and salvation, I didn't clearly understand.†   (source)
  • PLAYER: Lucianus, nephew to the king ...usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother's incestuous marriage ...loses his reason ...throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy ...staggering from the suicidal (a pose) to the homicidal (here he kills "POLONIUS") ...he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity-(a somewhat oedipal embrace) begs her to repent and recant (He springs up, still talking.)†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Suppose we repented.†   (source)
  • I've done my own repenting and it is up to me to handle the rest of the situation myself, too.†   (source)
  • It was a sin, Thomas; I admit it; I repent.†   (source)
  • Walking the rosy paths of the fig tree garden, sitting in the bluish shade of the grove of contemplation, washing his limbs daily in the bath of repentance, sacrificing in the dim shade of the mango forest, his gestures of perfect decency, everyone's love and joy, he still lacked all joy in his heart.†   (source)
  • Could it be his conscience, a feeling of pity, or repentance?†   (source)
  • Sammy stood in the corner behind Mr. Doans, nose to blackboard, repenting the expression he had used when Mrs. Doans told him to take his feet out of the aisle.†   (source)
  • He was appalled by this inexplicable betrayal, and the hardness of her mouth as she struggled with self-astonishment and repentance was even more ominous.†   (source)
  • She could hardly breathe, for thinking that this was the way it was to fall on her grave, where Clyde would come and stand, looking down in the tears of some repentance.†   (source)
  • As the Massachusetts Legislature enacted further resolutions wholly contrary to the spirit of the Seventh of March speech, one member called Webster "a recreant son of Massachusetts who misrepresents her in the Senate"; and another stated that "Daniel Webster will be a fortunate man if God, in his sparing mercy, shall preserve his life long enough for him to repent of this act and efface this stain on his name."†   (source)
  • if she had truly repented of her sin.†   (source)
  • We will give you time to repent your words.   (source)
    repent = retract or take back
  • Yet even though you were willing to lay aside all your claim, I should wish that the words of Thorin, of which he repented, should not prove true: that we should give you little.   (source)
    repented = took back (expressing regret for having uttered them)
  • No matter how many or how foul the sins if you only repent of them they will be forgiven you.   (source)
    repent = to feel regret for having done something wrong and to resolve to be a better person in the future
  • Bitterly did she repent the license she had given to her imagination.   (source)
    repent = regret
  • "Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly.   (source)
    repentantly = with a feeling of regret for having done wrong
  • I'll tell Marilla as soon as she comes in I've repented.   (source)
    repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
  • And I've been repenting ever since.   (source)
    repenting = regretting having done something wrong
  • I used up the whole bottle, and oh, Marilla, when I saw the dreadful color it turned my hair I repented of being wicked, I can tell you.   (source)
    repented = felt regret for having done something wrong and decided to be a better person in the future
  • I felt so heartbroken that I wouldn't say my prayers when I went to bed. But I repented of that and got up in the middle of the night and said them.   (source)
    repented = felt regret
  • It was dark when supper was ready, and still no sign of Anne, coming hurriedly over the log bridge or up Lover's Lane, breathless and repentant with a sense of neglected duties.   (source)
    repentant = felt regret for having done something wrong
  • And following Cain, Eve gave birth to Abel, having not yet repented of the Sin of Intercourse.†   (source)
  • If she wants help, let her repent her sin.†   (source)
  • You're drunk and you're not in a proper spirit of repentance.†   (source)
  • Just when I hurt so much I don't know my own name, they think a good time to talk bout repent.†   (source)
  • "Then who will repent to us?" the one-armed woman asked.†   (source)
  • "Cut in haste, repent at leisure," Yetta said, waving scissors at her reprovingly.†   (source)
  • And others marry from love and repent at leisure, as they say.†   (source)
  • She came back without any reason to repent of the sudden change she had made in her life.†   (source)
  • #8220;Is there something you wish to repent of, Mackenzie?" she asked, unfazed by his outburst.†   (source)
  • He refused to repent, to kill himself, or to become numb.†   (source)
  • But the lights on the boat had not yet been lost to view when they both repented of their weakness.†   (source)
  • Why would you repent while you were having fun?†   (source)
  • But she wanted to hear these murderers repent, wanted to see even a hint of the return of humanity.†   (source)
  • "Then you want to hear us repent?" the thick woman asked.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Adams replied, "if we fear God and repent our sins."†   (source)
  • Full pardons, for all those who repent of treason and swear fealty to their rightful king.†   (source)
  • Her tone was repentant, but I realized that Walter did not mean as much to her as he did to me.†   (source)
  • It gives them time to repent of their ways.†   (source)
  • There is a great difference between repentance and atonement.†   (source)
  • When you repent, usually, you feel sad—because of the regret that led you there.†   (source)
  • You have to repent to get right with God.†   (source)
  • That put a whole new meaning upon repentance and forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Death is never far in this world, and seven hells await sinners who do not repent their sins.†   (source)
  • Nurse Cramer was prepared to begin talking to Nurse Duckett again if she repented and apologized.†   (source)
  • Only through confession and true repentance may our immortal souls be saved.†   (source)
  • I can never repent it, though we hated to kill.†   (source)
  • She wasn't talking about repentance or forgiveness, only love.†   (source)
  • It happened before I repented and was one of the reasons I needed to repent.†   (source)
  • If you want to really know God, you've got to repent of this rebellion, which the Bible calls sin.†   (source)
  • Before I repented, Kay also drove my getaway car when I was hunting out of season.†   (source)
  • In Gnostic texts, the focus wasn't on sin and repentance, but instead on illusion and enlightenment.†   (source)
  • 'Is he?' teased the unregenerate old man, pinching his pointy jaw gravely in a parody of repentance.†   (source)
  • If you enjoy life without God, you have never repented and you have never been born of God!†   (source)
  • Have you ever repented of your sin and turned your life over to Jesus Christ?†   (source)
  • Tears of admiration and repentance filled his eyes.†   (source)
  • She showed no repentance, such as Cassie felt, for her inconsistencies.†   (source)
  • I was just going to kill him, but I wanted him to suffer before he died and have time to repent.†   (source)
  • Could any expression of repentance, of the thirst to be forgiven, be more concrete, more tangible?†   (source)
  • And then, once the coven was all but destroyed, Aro would grant a pardon to one member whose thoughts, he would claim, were particularly repentant.†   (source)
  • But if Grace Marks repent at last, And for her sins atone, Then when she comes to die, she'll stand At her Redeemer's throne.†   (source)
  • Crowds packed the churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples to pray and repent, then poured out of them as the worshippers woke up to their increased risk of exposure.†   (source)
  • "I have nothing to repent," Arcadio said, and he put himself under the orders of the squad after drinking a cup of black coffee.†   (source)
  • Then it will be too late to repent.†   (source)
  • A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain.†   (source)
  • I will write him the way I want him to be: romantic and thoughtful and very very repentant—about the credit cards and the purchases and the woodshed.†   (source)
  • And repent.†   (source)
  • And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given as-surance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.†   (source)
  • I was not repentant, either.†   (source)
  • I thought you'd repent.†   (source)
  • I'll repent.†   (source)
  • Meme managed to repent her impulse in a fraction of a second but the repentance changed immediately into a cruel satisfaction on seeing that his hand too was sweaty and cold.†   (source)
  • They were soft, repentant.†   (source)
  • Repent!†   (source)
  • Repented!†   (source)
  • And still Eve did not repent, nor all the daughters of Eve, and upon Eve did the Crafty Serpent found a kingdom of whoredoms and pestilences.†   (source)
  • But when the young marry in haste they must repent in leisure, and perhaps Daddy's daddy had married the same type of woman, so that unconsciously Jack's daddy had also married one, as Jack himself had.†   (source)
  • They monitored what the members of the Black Categories did during the day, recorded any visitors to their homes, watched their Morning Repentance and Evening Reports, and supervised their sweeping the alley twice a day.†   (source)
  • We most heartily repent—" Carrie did not think anyone could understand the brute courage it had taken to reconcile herself to this, to leave herself open to whatever fearsome possibilities the night might realize.†   (source)
  • Down on your knees, she would say, Thou shalt not kill, but there is always God's grace for sinners, repent, repent while there is yet time or damnation awaits.†   (source)
  • And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, SHAME printed on them in red.†   (source)
  • Then out of habit I fired off the Repentance Psalm: Have mercy upon me, O God, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies.†   (source)
  • Yes, they were all three Dolphin men, and none of them showed the slightest sign of repentance.†   (source)
  • Meme managed to repent her impulse in a fraction of a second but the repentance changed immediately into a cruel satisfaction on seeing that his hand too was sweaty and cold.†   (source)
  • God forgives all who repent.†   (source)
  • But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.†   (source)
  • The only way to kill sin, true black sin, was to drown it in the blood of (she must be sacrificed) a repentant heart.†   (source)
  • I tried to think over all of the things I'd done wrong, so I could repent of them; such as choosing the second-best sheet for my mother, and not staying awake when Mary Whitney was dying.†   (source)
  • She refused in an amiable but firm manner, with the explicit argument that she had nothing to repent of.†   (source)
  • What if I repent?†   (source)
  • But in spite of all this repentance the rain hadn't come, and now he told us he refused to be party to the superstitions.†   (source)
  • But even those wild memories of his mad youth left him unmoved, just as during his last debauch he had exhausted his quota of salaciousness and all he had left was the marvelous gift of being able to remember it without bitterness or repentance.†   (source)
  • Verbs such as confessing, repenting, living, loving, responding, growing, reaping, changing, sowing, running, dancing, singing, and on and on.†   (source)
  • No Dearest and Love and Beauty, no Eternal Friends, none of those things for her; what it has instead is all the famous criminals in it — the ones that have been hanged, or else brought here to be penitent, because this is a Penitentiary and you are supposed to repent while in it, and you will do better if you say you have done so, whether you have anything to repent of or not.†   (source)
  • Yet she was the first one to look out when they were told that the funeral procession for Colonel Gerineldo Marquez was passing by and even though she only watched it through the half-opened window it left her in such a state of affliction that for a long time she repented in her weakness.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ca y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday.†   (source)
  • Old Tata Bird laughed heartily, fingering the cross around his neck (another warning sign of Catholic papism), and he didn't sound repentant.†   (source)
  • But though I have repented of my wickedness with bitter tears, it has pleased God that I should never again know a moment's peace.†   (source)
  • They cried, and their repentance was far deeper and more sincere than that of those Monsters and Demons who were not intellectuals.†   (source)
  • It was during that time that Ursula, began to speak Rebeca's name, bringing back the memory of her with an old love that was exalted by tardy repentance and a sudden admiration, coming to understand that only she, Rebeca, the one who had never fed of her milk but only of the earth of the land and the whiteness of the walls, the one who did not carry the blood of her veins in hers but the unknown blood of the strangers whose bones were stillcloc ing in their grave.†   (source)
  • But she soon repented of her first impression, for Florentino Ariza placed himself at her unconditional service without knowing who she was: he never found out.†   (source)
  • She has suffered untold mental agony, and agony of body as well; and she has bitterly repented whatever part she may have taken in this great crime, whether conscious of having taken it or not.†   (source)
  • But she always had enough serenity to know that they were not memories of love or repentance, but the image of a sorrow that left a trail of tears on her cheeks.†   (source)
  • No One Repents†   (source)
  • Once his revenge was consummated, however, he repented of his own wickedness, and then he saw Fermina Daza rising from the ground, her spirit intact, distant but alive, because it was not possible for him to imagine the world without her.†   (source)
  • Will you — can you, in the name of charity — still persist in refusing to join your name to the Petition for her release, and thereby perchance close the gates of Paradise to a repentant sinner?†   (source)
  • He was the only one who knew how to react when the fugitive parrot appeared in the dining room at midnight with his head high and his wings spread, which caused a stupefied shudder to run through the house, for it seemed a sign of repentance.†   (source)
  • She showed the scrapbook to me herself, I suppose she wanted to see what I would do; but I've learnt how to keep my face still, I made my eyes wide and flat, like an owl's, in torchlight, and I said I had repented in bitter tears, and was now a changed person, and would she wish me to remove the tea things now; but I've looked in there since, many times, when I've been in the parlour by myself.†   (source)
  • Stiff with arthritis and repenting her wayward life, in those days Lucrecia del Real not only provided her with the best company, she also consulted with her regarding the civic and secular projects that were being arranged in the city, and this made her feel useful for her own sake and not because of the protective shadow of her husband.†   (source)
  • When I complained of it, the Matron gave me a dry look with her mouth all tight and straight across like a box lid, and she said, Well Grace perhaps you should listen to her, I have never heard of you doing any true repenting, much though your hard heart stands in need of it; and then I was suddenly very angry and I screamed, I did nothing, I did nothing!†   (source)
  • A few years before he had gone to a dangerous assignation, his heart heavy with terror of what might happen, and he had found the door unlocked and the hinges recently oiled so that he could come in without a sound, but he repented at the last moment for fear of causing a decent married woman irreparable harm by dying in her bed.†   (source)
  • ' His tone was not repentant.†   (source)
  • If I would have him freed unharmed, he told me, I must repent my treason, yield my city, declare my loyalty to the boy king on the Iron Throne ...and bend my knee to Roose Bolton, his Warden of the North.†   (source)
  • Along with the initials and hearts scratched into the sign with pocket knives, someone had carved "Repent."†   (source)
  • Repentance through organ donation?†   (source)
  • But what Eragon did nottell the butcher was that the elves would repair his eyes if he repented of his treason and murder.†   (source)
  • We read our Sunday school paper, which has the story of Joseph in it and a modern story about a boy who steals from the collection plate but repents and collects wastepaper and old bottles for the church, to make reparations.†   (source)
  • Edward grinned, repentant.†   (source)
  • If they made sincere repentance for their sins ...yes, I would embrace them all as brothers and pray with them before I sent them to the block.†   (source)
  • A huge sign on top of it: Repent!†   (source)
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