"Penitently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the First Church in Troubleton, having been led far from the truth by the absurdities of modern miracleism and spiritualism, and having seen the error of my ways, do penitently subscribe to the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... very sorry I said it,' returned Greif penitently. He took her passive hand in his, hoping to make the peace as quickly as he had broken it, but she did not return the pressure ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford
... her pardon, dear Miss Ellen," said Eleanor penitently, and rushing out of the room, she met Madame in the passage, and we heard her pouring forth a torrent of apology and self-accusation in a style peculiar to herself. If in her youth and cleverness she was ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... Hath he borne himselfe penitently in prison? How seemes he to be touch'd? Pro. A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and fearelesse of what's past, present, or to come: insensible of mortality, and ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare |
