Some say that Apollo, on account of her infidelity, shot his mother when big with child with him; but repenting the fact, saved the infant, and gave him to Chiron to be instructed in physic.

'To-day deep thoughts with me resolve to drench In mirth, which after no repenting draws.

To-day resolve deep thoughts with me to drench, In mirth that after no repenting draws.

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

Repenting, he returns; but finds her door fastened.

Manfredi gave Dante a message to his daughter Costanza, queen of Arragon, begging her to shorten the consequences of the excommunication by her prayers; since he, like the rest of the party with him, though repenting of his contumacy against the church, would have to wander on the outskirts of Purgatory three times as long as the presumption had lasted, unless relieved by such petitions from the living.

He and his companions had to walk round the foot of it as many years as they had delayed repenting; unless, as in the case of Manfredi, their time was shortened by the prayers of good people.

" "I fear I have been mistaken in you, my lord," rejoined Amabel, half-repenting her frankness.

" They had just committed many considerable robberies, which they are now repenting in the bagnes of France.

We know that it is the very sign of their being dead in sin, the very sign of God's Spirit having left them; that till they are made to feel shame there is no hope of their mending or repenting, or of any good being put into them, or coming out of them.

Kind Heaven so rare a temper did provide, That guilt, repenting, might in it confide.

And though by tempests of the prize bereft, In Heaven's inclemency some ease we find: Our foes we vanquish'd by our valour left, And only yielded to the seas and wind. 31 Nor wholly lost we so deserved a prey; For storms repenting part of it restored: Which, as a tribute from the Baltic sea, The British ocean sent her mighty lord.

Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate: Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human will,) Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent, And from the first impression takes the bent: But if, unseized, she glides away like wind, And leaves repenting folly far behind.

Long after sensation had left his body his thoughts were rushing in this fever of realisation, while his chilled hands made new in the Kingdom such sinners as came there repenting.

It is an unfortunate habit of publicly repenting for other people's sins.

"Repenting him of his design.

He is so far from repenting, that he rejoiceth and triumpheth in reflecting back upon all the pains, and care, and labor of love, whereby he hath loved the Lord Jesus, in submitting his heart unto Him.

Freya made a gesture of protest at the same time that the sailor began repenting of his generosity....

Isaac started for home, much repenting of his bashfulness, and went nearly half of the way revolving the subject in his mind.

Alas! said he (with tears in his eye, and giving a great sigh) as for repenting, that is for ever past me.

And they repenting and groaning for Anguish of Spirit, shall say within themselves; This was he whom we had sometime in Derision, and a Proverb of Reproach.

Nevertheless, it was no use repining or repenting.

say I, turning sharply and huffily away; then, with a sudden recollecting and repenting myself, "May I come back, then?"

"But that was before we had seen you," I answer, hastily, repenting my confession as soon as I see its effects.

Too late they would with shame, repenting, dread That numerous herd, by such a lion led; He Rhodes and Buda from the Christians tore, Which timely union might again restore.