Word: confessions
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...some party and the boys dropped over for a little provender. They took five Dunhill pipes, a mecrschaum, a siphon, and a Dunhill lady lighter, or rather a lighter made by Dunhill for ladies. Much as I would like to believe in the latter as an explanation, I must confess to a fear that this is but another spiteful attack by some sinister and hidden enemy...
...shot the white man Marvin," ran the confession of Eskimo, Kudlooktoo. "Seventeen years ago I shot him to save the life of my friend Inuhitsoq. Now I am a Christian. I have just learned to be a Christian. I confess...
...Eskimos, having heard Kudtooktoo's confession, shuffled off. He was a fool to confess, they thought. Except-what did it matter? The white man Marvin was dead, and the white man Peary who had brought him to the Arctic does not come to Greenland any more. What did it matter if Kudlooktoo had learned to be a Christian and confessed...
President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to form a Cabinet. Forty-eight hours later the Mayor of Lyons was obliged to confess that strife within his own Left Coalition made it impossible for him to form a Cabinet. M. Briand the tale is told, had secretly hamstrung the Herriot Coalition from within...
...brow of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, infant daughter of the Duke of York, only granddaughter of George V, Rex et Imperator. Above her royal head the Archbishop intoned the significance of the moist cross which he had just made "in token that hereafter she shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified...