" "Have you come, father, to shrive a penitent?" "Such is my errand.

Janet, thou must go to yonder monastery and bring a priest to shrive Christopher.

At this, the helmet was quickly filled, and accompanied by a monk, who was present to shrive the dying or to bless the dead, the Lady Clare hurried to the side of Marmion.

So is Death pure and clean, as is the dew that comes with the cool night when the sun has set; clean and white as the snowflakes that betoken the absolution which Winter gives, shriving the earth of all her Summer wantonness and excess, when only the trees that yield balsam and aromatic fragrance remain green, breaking the box of precious ointment for burial.

I shrived the fisherman.

God would ten times have shriven A heart so riven; In her cold care thou would'st be Still unforgiven.

You are here to shrive a man about to die.

But, Your Worship, are these naughty fellows shrived?" "Nay," said the Sheriff, laughing, "never a whit; but thou mayst turn thy hand to that also if thou art so minded.

All the week Father Shannon has shriven his people, who bring clean conscience to the betterment of appetite, and the Father sets them an example.

And didst thou shrive the saint for the use of his bones a hundred years hence?

By reason of the half of me that was priestly, I could, upon occasion, hear confession, administer the holy sacrament, and shrive a sinner as effectively as the laziest priest in Christendom.

First, when he laid aside the sad raiment of his calling, and put on his khaki habiliments of war, he thought that the chief part of his job was to shrive the soldier before action, and to comfort the dying.

"Father, thou hast shrived many a parting soul!"

The burgomaster hid in the church, disguised as a priest, and pretended to be shriving some women when the crash came, but it did not save him.

I shrived AntonioI witnessed his fate, and the Prince knows it!"

Hast thou been to the Canale Orfano to shrive a wretch?" "I am here in attendance on a young and noble lady, who has need of my counsel and prayers.