"Shrive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... like any priest, Can shrive the dying or bury the dead, But dearer to me to raise the Beast Or watch the gold in ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence
... you half an hour, senor padre. That will be long enough to shrive the young Englishman," observed the jailer, as he closed ...
— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston
... To chant o'er a bottle or shrive a lass; No matin's bell called them up in the morn, But the yell of the hounds and sound of the horn; No penance the monk in his cell could stay But a broken leg or a rainy day: The pilgrim that came to the abbey-door, With the feet of the fallow-deer found it nailed ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
... For the French the Pope may shrive 'em, For the devil a whit we heed 'em, As for the French, God speed 'em Unto their hearts' desire, And the merry devil drive 'em Through the water ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... with laughter? "You are a leopard, and a lamb, and a bantam cock all in one," I jeered at him. "No wonder that I feel you need a priest to shrive you;" and I laughed again, and would not notice the hurt shining of his eyes as I ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
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