"Penitently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was soon surrounded, gave himself up that night. He was brought to trial on the nineteenth, and found guilty; on the twenty-fifth, he was executed on Tower Hill, where he died, at thirty-four years old, both courageously and penitently. His step-father suffered with him. His enemy, Sir Walter Raleigh, stood near the scaffold all the time—but not so near it as we shall see him stand, before we ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens
... under the sofa and hid. All day she was a prisoner, and was a very miserable little girl; but at night she was untied, and, when mamma took her in her lap for the first time that day, Poppy held her fast, and sobbed very penitently— ...
— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott
... penitently besought forgiveness, her mother was again forbidden to come to the lower story, and threatened, if she approached the sick-room, with ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... talking of the estate, which Nevil was supposed to look after. He did, when he remembered it, but that was not often, and not of late. His father, half exasperated, half laughing, told him he would defer his lecture till later on. Nevil penitently agreed it was only fitting to do so, and slipping his arm through his father's, began to explain to him the rights of a controversy just started in the Historical Review. No one was ever angry with Nevil long. His unchangeable sweet temper ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... she did know, the name of the man who had undone her, but would never utter it. At length she cast herself on her knees before the father of her betrayer, and supplicated "he would not punish her with severity, as she most penitently confessed her fault, so far ...
— Nature and Art • Mrs. Inchbald
... only when Wolfram renews his questions does he vouchsafe him a brief account of his journey to Rome. He tells how he trod the roughest roads barefooted, how he journeyed through heat and cold, eschewing all comforts and alleviation of his hard lot, how he knelt penitently before every shrine, and how fervently he prayed for the forgiveness of the sin which had darkened not only his life but that of his beloved. Then, in faltering tones, he relates how the Pope shrank from him upon hearing that he had sojourned for a year in the Venus ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... The abbe bowed penitently, and with tears in his eyes. Bonaparte turned his back to him, and ordered him to be taken ...
— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach
... his human victim, and stooping down, she boxed the miscreant, not cruelly but effectively, on the ears. I was surprised to see that the boy seemed to regard this infliction as the simple and natural award of justice, bowed his head and wept penitently, and was subdued for some ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... it again,' I answered penitently, and catching up a stone I soon fastened the injured staple. 'There, mistress, your granddam will never tell ...
— Micah Clarke - His Statement as made to his three Grandchildren Joseph, - Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 • Arthur Conan Doyle
... earth. Now the angels grew frightened and bitterly repented letting their evil guests into Heaven. They begged and threatened, but the devils cared for nothing, and kept on in their frolic more madly. Then, in terror, the angels waked up St. Peter and penitently confessed to him what they had done. He smote his hands together over his head when he saw the mischief which the imps had wrought. 'March in!' thundered he, and the little ones, with drooping wings, crept through the gate into ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... 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 ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... ashamed to make you the victim of my blunder," answered Miss Ellison penitently; and a little silence ensued. Then as if she had suddenly been able to alienate the case, and see it apart from herself in its unmanageable absurdity, she broke into a confiding laugh, very like her cousin's, and said, ...
— A Chance Acquaintance • W. D. Howells
... penitently, "that I make him feel it, sometimes. And he doesn't know that it is because I care so much. That it is because I ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey
... whispered penitently. "It was wicked. But," she pleaded, "I did so want to hear you say ...
— The White Mice • Richard Harding Davis
... as wrong as wrong can be. But I never meant to tell her. I locked the grammar in my desk and the secret in my heart for a year. I could n't bear to meet her in the village, and kept away from every place where she was likely to be. Then she came to me, and sat down at my feet penitently, just as she used to do when she was a child, and asked what she had done to anger me; and then, Heaven forgive me! I told her all, and asked her if she could say with her lips the words she had written, and she nestled ...
— Quite So • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... Rachel," said Jack, penitently, eying his aunt, who was rocking to and fro in her chair. "You know I didn't. Besides, I hurt myself like ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... rendered irresponsible for his conduct by his despair, in a moment of blind recklessness, without realizing the highly reprehensible nature of the act, nor yet its danger and its dishonour, he went off to join the nearest rebels on a sudden impulse. And that now, penitently... ...
— Tales Of Hearsay • Joseph Conrad
... he admitted, penitently. Then he asked suddenly, "An' whar war Rufe, an' Pete, an' Joe, ez YE hed ter go ter pickin' up of chips an' sech ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... wants to be good," she said, penitently; "but we forgets. P'rhaps if we were other folks, and our names were something else 'sides Tilderee and ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... Billy Harper, penitently sober and sworn to sobriety for all his days, had outdone himself on that day's issue. He told how the voters crowded to the polls in their eagerness to vote for Bruce, and he gave with a tremendous exultation an estimate ...
— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott
... said penitently. "And you are very nice and polite, in your way, and you must make allowance for my not being clever. I keep telling you ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... penitently. "I was only trying to torment you. Kiss me and make up. I know you too well to believe that you could care for ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers
... her much as the aunt of the wretched girl in the fairy tale might have done,—the girl out of whose mouth a frog jumped every time she opened it. Indeed, the sentence seemed actually visible between them, like a squat and ugly small beast on the shining white cloth. "Sorry, Aunt Lyddy," said Jane, penitently. "I'm a crosspatch to-night, and I ought to sit by the fire and spin, instead ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... tease you," he said penitently. "I'll find you something to make the loss good, perhaps I'll find something she'll like a great ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... Helen penitently receives his reproaches, and welcomes the threatened death; and when he speaks of their daughter, Hermi'o-ne, whom, an infant, she had so ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson |
