If he deserts her, she is miserable until she succeeds in demonstrating to herself it was entirely her own fault; after that, she is properly repentant, but far less unhappy; and, anyhow, she goes on loving him just the same.

From that day our people showed less aversion for the repentant deserter, and of a verity he did the work of three men during every four and twenty hours thereafter while we remained in Fort Schuyler.

I asked, in surprise, and pitying from the bottom of my heart the man who was so deeply repentant.

"What ef he should die?" they whispered among themselves, repentant enough of their late condemnation of him and already desolate at the thought of his leaving this little haven with them for the "great haven" over there; and the whisper reaching the sickroom, Abe's fever would rise, while he could never lift his lashes except to see the specter of helpless old age on one side of the bed and death upon the other.

Then breath'd from quivering lips a whisper'd vow, And bent on heaven his pale repentant brow; "Thus, thus!"

70 And slow they move amid a world of fire!" He spoke,to Heaven his arms repentant spread, And kneeling bow'd his gem-incircled head.

Adj. penitent; repenting &c v.; repentant, contrite; conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted.

[Terence]; Tu l'as voulu [Fr.], Georges Dandin; and wet his grave with my repentant tears [Richard III].

" Then repentant and deeply moved, Pascal, too, wept.

Felicite, glad to have received it, used it as a new means of conquering her son, after having waited in vain for misery to deliver him up to her, repentant and imploring.

"Why, yes; he always forgives a repentant sinner.

" "Repentant sinner."

The native boys were ripe for desertion, and two of them did desert, only to return in a few days, starving, and apparently repentant.

"Helen Repentant too Late" Hell-fire Dick Hemans, Mrs. Henderson, Cottle's Monody on

Howsoever, As one repentant for my rashnes past, And loathe to Imbrewe mee in more Innocent blood, I fyrst confesse my servant's guilt and myne, Acquitt the Fryar, and yeeld our persons upp To the full satisfaction of the lawe.

She was half surprised at her open audacity, half repentant.

He is now confined in an asylum for repentant criminals, desirous of being restored to society; and his miraculous warning is noted in the records of the institution.

The repentant philosopher placed his hand on her lovely head, and lifted a tress of her soft hair.

On the next day Dick Shand was sick, repentant, and idle.

And further I am in no sense remorseful, repentant, or "dogged by the spectre of an evil deed".

Her conscience was beginning to feel the wholesome transformation of repentant women who were formerly great sinners.

But at the same time his mate, repentant of his former reflection, was affirming in a loud voice with heroic simplicity: "If I counsel you to retire, it is for your own good; don't think it is because I am afraid....

Tutelary angels are represented as pleading for mercy, with eager outstretched arms; other angels, lower down, are liberating the souls of repentant sinners from torment.

"In outskirts of Thy kingdoms vast, Father, the humblest spot give me; Set me the lowliest task Thou hast, Let me repentant work for Thee!" That evening, Aug. 8, after saying farewell, she placed her hand in her husband's, and went to sleep.

He finished his breakfast in silence, and, leaving the repentant Mr. Stiles sitting in the doorway with a pipe, went down to the widow's to make the best explanation he could think of on the way.