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
A father of the neighbouring monastery, Attracted hither by the clash of swords, And but in time to shrive a dying man.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
I pray thee, shrive me, that my guilty soul May quit in peace this tenement of clay.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
Then he came again this afternoon and said she must die; but he would shrive her for two pesos.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
And Padre Lorenzo came––but he would not shrive her little white soul––” “And the father––?”
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
Vocabulary lists containing shrive
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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The Merchant of Venice
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Mardi Gras: Faith
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