Arriving opposite it, we walked out on to the projecting arm of rock, and I must confess to having felt an intolerable sense of terror as I looked down from that dizzy perch into the unknown depths below usinto the deeps from which there rose ever the thunder of the falling water and the shroud of rising spray.

I turned it over and over in my mind, trying to fit into it the happenings of the dayI must confess with very poor success.

Hannibal, after performing this as it were his last work of valor, fled to Adrumetum, whence, having been summoned to Carthage, he returned thither in the sixth and thirtieth year after he had left it when a boy, and confessed in the senate house that he was defeated, not only in the battle, but in the war, and that there was no hope of safety in anything but in obtaining peace.

Well, as he had confessed at the love feast, that was settled last night, and as soon as it had been attended to be knew there was nothing else in the way.

I confessed on Saturday, three weeks ago, and received absolution, and I have performed the penance enjoined.

Three gibbets were immediately raised on the moor, and the wretched culprits confessed before their execution to the destruction of nearly fifty victims in the Murder Hole which they pointed out, and near which they suffered the penalty of their crimes.

Sad though it is to confess of a hero honestly loved, Abraham had nagged a little all his married life when things went wrong.

We shall stand before the world nakedly confessed as the nation of hypocrites we have always been declared to be.

He wouldn't get far, and I've a feeling that if he confessed by running he'd break down and give up the whole thing.

* * Here lies David Garrick: describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man; As an actor, confessed without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

Staying at her grandfather's and confessing about the pitcher was better than this!

And I will confess for myself that sometimes, as I fall asleep at night, I wonder if even Bernard Shaw has written anything to equal the Twenty-third Psalm.

Those people who at the time of the arrest had prided themselves on possessing an open mind as to the guilt of the famous barrister, confessed after reading the police court evidence that there could be little doubt of his guilt.

the same day in a field close to the abbey of St. Anthony; and nine others met the same fate at the hands of a council held at Senlis the same year: "They confessed under their tortures," says Bossuet, "but they denied at their execution."

" "That's what I thought; go, in the name of God, but confess like a good Christian.

To have to confess allbut all your sins!

To do that, one must feel and confess within oneself the seed of the same errors which one reproves in him; one must have passed more or less through his temptations, doubts, hunger of heart and brain; and one cannot help questioning, as one reads Mr. Vaughan's book, whether he has really done this in the case of those of whom he writes.

I am a monk by my profession In Bury, called John Lydgate by my name, And wear a habit of perfection; (Although my life agree not with the same) That meddle should with things spiritual, As I must needs confess unto you all.

It confesses throughout what we want strength for, to what use we are to put God's grace if He bestows it on us.