1 Somewhat too late she remembered that she had given up domesticity and repentance.
2 Her repentance was not proof against Uncle Whittier when she stopped in at his grocery for salt and a package of safety matches.
3 As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
4 And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
5 Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.
6 At eleven the meeting closed, and the desolate audience filed out into the snow, muttering curses upon the few traitors who had got repentance and gone up on the platform.
7 Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 8 The poor woman was very vacillating in her repentance.
9 Your repentance," I said, "is now superfluous.
10 It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first flow of my repentance, it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe's.
11 It has been put into your hearts, perhaps, to save a wretched creature for repentance.
12 It was a characteristic feature in this repentance, that I was fain to ask what these two men had done, to be there at all.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 13 Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led.
14 In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of.
15 Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.