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- 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.†
Chpt 2 *repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 3repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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!†
Chpt 3repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 11repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- 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.†
Chpt 11repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- And others marry from love and repent at leisure, as they say.†
Chpt 14
- 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.†
Chpt 14repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- 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?†
Chpt 14repentant = feeling regret for having done something wrong
Definitions:
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(1)
(repent) to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)