"Contrition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tacit invitation to be seated, stood repeating slowly, "Yes, yes, your supper will be ready in a minute, 'Dolphus—your mother went out in the wet, to the cook's shop, to buy it. It was very good of your mother so to do"—until Mrs. Tetterby, who had been exhibiting sundry tokens of contrition behind him, caught him round the neck, ...
— The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin • Charles Dickens
... fellow's ugly face presented a picture of shame and contrition, the moment I showed myself. He piteously entreated me to look over it, ...
— The Guilty River • Wilkie Collins
... her fingers to push down the rebellious dress. "If I don't put leads on me," she said with contrition, "I'll be floating away. When I feel good, I always want to do something wrong—it's awfully dangerous for a person to feel good, I guess. Mrs. Gregory, you say I can belong to you,—when I think about that, I want to dance...I guess you hardly know what ...
— Fran • John Breckenridge Ellis
... Patsay Doola, son of Timlay Doola-which is Tim Doolan—clasped the king's feet, cuffed the standing army, and hurried in an agony of contrition from temple to temple making offerings for the ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... obliquities, indeed, were sure of receiving their full recompense, for no occasion of laying on the lash was ever let slip; but the effects expected to be produced from it were something very different from contrition or mortification. There was in William Wales a perpetual fund of humor, a constant glee about him, which, heightened by an inveterate provincialism of north-country dialect, absolutely took away the sting from his severities. His punishments were a game at ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb
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