Word: pardoner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adam, dauntless, surprises them ; they swallow their tobacco, are taught to like it, although still in stupendous puzzlement. Pardon...
...Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment for the future, and most humbly ask pardon of God and penance and absolution of you, my spiritual Father...
...speaks of a betrayal. Of his betrayal by Mirelli, who killed himself because of the proof that he wished to give him that it was easy to obtain from you (if you will pardon my saying so) what Mirelli himself had failed to attain...
...Again, Republican Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson personally besought the President to pardon onetime Indiana Governor Warren T. McCray, who is serving a ten-year term in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud (TIME...
...gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises in the history of the Mother of Parliaments was summarized...