"Unshriven" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood out dark With thoughts of ages: like some mighty captive Upon his death-bed in a Christian land, And lying, through the chant of Psalm and Creed Unshriven and stern, with peace upon his brow, And ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... terrible that all the consolations of religion are denied those true children of Mother Church, that no priestly office may be performed within the city, that men and women may not approach the altars of the Faith, that they must die unshriven with their sins upon them, and so be damned through all eternity? Where is ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... waiting for them, prepared by the old Sister Agnes. It was a somewhat silent meal of which no one ate very much except Grey Dick, who remarked aloud that as this might be his last breakfast it should be plentiful, since, shriven or unshriven, it was better to ...
— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard
... or struggle, multiplied ten thousandfold and more eternal than ourselves, spring up upon the universal bosom of the earth to be the bane of a million destinies, whilst the everlasting Finger writes its endless count, and a cold voice of Justice cries in our conscience-haunted solitude, 'Oh! soul unshriven, behold the ripening harvest thy wanton hand did scatter, and long in vain for the waters ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
... and art from henceforth accursed by virtue of my office. I pause here, holding converse no longer with such mocking tongue, nor linger in presence of this blasphemous crew. There resteth upon me the eternal destiny of a human, unshriven soul, and I bid thee permit my passage; 't is the final night of earth for some upon this ship, and I have until now neglected to perform my priestly duty with one of the condemned. 'T is upon this holy mission I would ...
— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish |
