That Penitence atones with him and Heaven.

Then, of a sudden, madness came upon him and, breaking from the mailed arms that held him, he came hot-foot to the courtyard and to the hall beyond, hurling aside all such as sought to stay him and so reached at last my lady's bower, his mailed feet ringing upon the Atones.

As we rounded the Battery and sped swiftly up the East River, the noblest avenue of New York, lined with the true palaces of her merchant-princes,an avenue which by its solid and truthful architecture half atones for the flimsiness of its land structures,as we passed the ocean steamships lying at the "Hook," the sea-captains about me began to talk of the American triumphs of speed.

The favourite is, of course, No. 1134, for its adorable Baby, whose natural charm atones for its theatrical Mother.

His political courage atones somewhat for the want of moral courage he displayed in pandering to the prince's vices.

The French press has undoubtedly committed many offences during the last few years, and is not altogether irresponsible for the troubles which have overwhelmed the unhappy country; but reparation is being made for these offences in this present hour of danger, and the fearless attitude which it has maintained before these men of the Hôtel de Ville, atones nobly for the past.

For many anxious years this day atones.

It is all the same to you, and if you are wise, you will pass over that defect, which she amply atones for by her amiable qualities.

Thou hast a joy we do not feel, A light we cannot see; Injustice, sin, and wretchedness No longer sadden thee; No doubt to thy sublimer gaze Life's mystery grows plain, As finally full recompense Atones for earthly pain.

This Goethe himself expressed as the central thought of this drama in the lines: Alle menschlichen Gebrechen Sühnet reine Menschlichkeit (For each human fault and frailty Pure humanity atones).

" Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted.

"So wills the fierce avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones!

The imposing appearance of the south front amply atones for any disappointment the visitor may experience at his first sight of the buildings from the Chard road.

Milton composing Paradise Lost, from a drawing by Stothard, is far from our taste; but the Blue Bell, by Fox, from a picture by W.A. Hastings, somewhat atones for the previous failure: its prettiness is of the first class.

The Son mediates and atones.

Some trivial slips their daily walk attend, The poor are near at hand, the charge is small, A slight gratuity atones for all."Cowper.

In the momentary lapse of Maggie, Swinburne finds a fatal defect, which no subsequent repentance atones for.

Does he mean that, by sacrificing his earthly life, Dorian Gray atones for his infernal sins, and so purifies his soul by suicide?

Falkner says (126) that among the Patagonians in cases of adultery the wife is not blamed, but the gallant is punished "unless he atones for the injury by some valuable present.

The Birria tribe waits a few years longer, but atones for this by a resort to another crime: "Males and females are married at from fourteen to sixteen, but are not allowed to rear children until they get to be about thirty years of age; hence infanticide is general.

As a history it would be beneath criticism, were it not that the high character of the author and her excellent literary work in other directions have given it a fictitious value and made it much quoted by the large class of amiable but maudlin fanatics concerning whom it may be said that the excellence of their intentions but indifferently atones for the invariable folly and ill effect of their actions.

He was at the age when the child leaves no lasting memories behind; but we know the grace of innocence, the privilege of impeccability by which infancy atones for the lack of acquirements.

" "But I think that he has within him a capacity for love, and an unselfishness, which almost atones for his dishonesty; and there is about him a strange dislike to conventionality and to law which is so interesting as to make up the balance.

And on proper gymnastic exercises there is a little book so full and admirable, that it atones for the defects of all the others,"Paul Preston's Gymnastics,"nominally a child's book, but so spirited and graphic, and entering so admirably into the whole extent of the subject, that it ought to be reprinted and find ten thousand readers.

But I dealt very plainly and sincerely with her, to be sure; and this atones for all past offences, and procures absolution for many others yet to be committed.