1 This image at his warning they reared in recompense for the Palladium and the injured deity, to expiate the horror of sacrilege.
2 If the Trojans steered for Italy without thy leave and defiant of thy deity, let them expiate their sin; aid not such with thy succour.
3 Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance.
4 To expiate his huntsman's offense, Ilagin pressed the Rostovs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares.
5 After a wild youth, he had retired into a convent, there to expiate, at least for some time, the follies of adolescence.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 6 I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.
7 He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 8 Whether there had not been an excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains expiation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Chateauvieux.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION 10 And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, expiation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 11 Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one's self.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 12 This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 13 Bid her haste and sprinkle river water over her body, and bring with her the beasts ordained for expiation: so let her come: and thou likewise veil thy brows with a pure chaplet.