All 8 Uses
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- My father's faith was bred into his bones, his principles were his sinews, and both responded to a mind richly stored with examples from the Bible, and from Nichol-son's Repentances.†
Chpt 2
- The nearest approach to decoration was a number of wooden panels with sayings, mostly from Repentances, artistically burnt into them.†
Chpt 2
- We would all kneel while he proclaimed our repentance and led prayers for forgiveness.†
Chpt 2 *repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- Only Nichol-son's Repentances had come out of the wilderness of barbarism, and that only because it had lain for, perhaps, several centuries sealed in a stone coffer before it was discovered.†
Chpt 4
- It was this long line of tongues that had given us the name Labrador, for it was unmentioned in either the Bible or Repentances, and they may have been right about the cold, although there were only two cold months in the year now — Tribulation could account for that, it could account for almost anything......For a long time it had been disputed whether any parts of the world other than Labrador and the big island of Newf were populated at all.†
Chpt 4
- No, the definition comes from Nicholson's Repentances — and he admits that he was writing some generations after Tribulation came, so you find yourself wondering whether he knew he was in the true image, or whether he only thought he was......Uncle Axel had a lot more to say about Southern parts than I can remember, and it was all very interesting in its way, but it didn't tell me what I wanted to know.†
Chpt 6
- Our schooling, as I have said, was sketchy; mostly writing, reading from a few simple books and the Bible and Repentances, which were not at all simple or easy to understand, and a little elementary figuring.†
Chpt 8
- Repentances says to keep pure the stock of the Lord by fire, but that's not good enough for the bloody Government now.†
Chpt 9
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)