Word: repenting
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...Elphege Daignault, the excommunicate, will repent. He will come back into the Church...
...Providence, R. I., and in the half-dozen towns surrounding, the whisper softly passed around. In smart houses it caused slight comment. But in little houses where shirt-sleeved fathers read the papers every night by the centre table, the whisper was tense, freighted with excitement. "Elphege Daignault will repent. The neighbors told...
...Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...
Fleshy Feodor Karamazov has begot, among others, three legitimate sons. The fierce appetites of the sire burn in the brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised...
...when these things were reported to the Rulers, they consulted together again and desired the Sons of Harvard to repent...