Without the direct intervention of God's angels, William cannot recognize it and be shriven of it. |
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At one point the wretched man grovellingly confessed to having failed, but if he was shriven of his sins by the archbish, I missed it. |
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It happened, by an amazing chance, that a fellow-prisoner was a priest, to whom José Antonio was allowed access that he might be shriven. |
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And that her calculation is that by saying sorry, she will not be consigned to the footnotes of Washington history but instead be released, shriven, to continue her career in politics, possibly ascending to its summit. |
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Berl's quest to be shriven for his crimes, as if that will provide a comprehensible shape to his life, veers off into an extended, deluded search for Jocelyn. |
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Of that I must be shriven If I'm to be forgiven. |
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In his telling he was offering a new republic, shriven of racial hatreds and purged of poverty, built by farsighted technocrats and legislators upon mountains of federal cash. |
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