Word: repented
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Misanthrope detests the various falsehoods of this world, and, upon finding that the Auvergnat tells the truth, hastens to make the latter his friend. He soon begins to repent of his bargain, for his best laid plans are frustrated by the interference of his new friend. At last he finds it necessary to make the Auvergnat lie, in order to save the reputation of Madame Coquenard. Prunette undertakes to bring this about, and the scene in which she coquettes with the teller of unpleasant truths was especially well acted. The parts were very well sustained throughout, and everything went very...
...kleptomaniac who removed from Memorial on Tuesday evening, a silk umbrella, with a brown wood handle, and the owner's name carved on it, will repent and leave it at the Auditor's office, he will be forgiven...
...their way to Lexington and Concord. We enter the old structure and see what an autograph album its interior has become. We immediately think of the quotation, "Fool's names," etc., but on finding the initials perhaps of our best friends or of some other great college men, we repent, and even add our own names before we leave. After leaving the powder-house, we stroll leisurely back to Cambridge...
...poor fellow who runs the "Exchange" column of the Michigan University Chronicle has been having trouble with his mind lately, and in consequence has been led off into some vagaries by that gay deceiver, the Oberlin Review, which we feel sure he will repent of as soon as he comes to himself again. We cannot exactly explain the phenomenon, but there exists, we think, a curious epidemic in some of the Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody...
Such is the strange delusion of an esteemed contemporary. If we have ever done aught to foster and encourage it, we repent of our action. How we can ever set our friends in the West to rights in this matter we do not know; but henceforward such will be our only aim and study...