"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surgeon, who is always in attendance, can at once proceed to business. Another large apartment is fitted up as a Roman Catholic chapel. If any of the bull-fighters are fatally injured and about to die, here the priest, as regular an attendant as the surgeon, can administer the last rite, shrive the sufferer of all sin, and start him on his triumphant way to other, and, it is to be hoped, happier hunting-grounds. At the bull-ring the populace, to the number of from fourteen to fifteen thousand, assemble nearly every Sabbath during the season, to witness this ...
— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou
... aloud. "Why, how now," quoth he, "is thy proud stomach quailing? Shrive thyself, thou vile knave, for I mean that thou shalt hang this day, and that where three roads meet, so that all men shall see thee hang, for carrion crows and daws ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle
... I like the friar, that doth shrive A wretch for murder doom'd, who e'en when fix'd, Calleth him ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... an hour, senor padre. That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston
... table still behold The cup of consecrated gold; Massy and deep, a glittering prize, Brightly it sparkles to plunderers' eyes: That morn it held the holy wine, Converted by Christ to his blood so divine, Which his worshippers drank at the break of day, To shrive their souls ere they joined in the fray. Still a few drops within it lay; And round the sacred table glow Twelve lofty lamps, in splendid row, From the purest metal cast; A spoil—the ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various
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