Which preposition to use with penitents

for Occurrences 13%

Jeffrey, penitent for the early faux pas of his Review, as Byron remained penitent for his answering assault, writes of Lara, "Passages of it may be put into competition with anything that poetry has produced in point either of pathos or energy."

in Occurrences 11%

The Jarvises had gone to London to receive their children, now penitent in more senses than one; and Sir Edward learnt with pleasure that Egerton and his wife had been admitted into the family of the merchant.

to Occurrences 6%

She saw Dick standing in front of her, silent and with a face quite inscrutable, and she lowered her head and spoke with the submission of a penitent to her judge.

of Occurrences 5%

The beatified penitents of the early Christian Church spoke another lessonspoke divinely of hope for the fallen, hope without self- abasement or defiance.

at Occurrences 4%

Barbro seemed penitent at that; she was not altogether unkindly.

by Occurrences 2%

'The lines in the tenth Satire of Juvenal, according to my alteration, should have run thus: 'Yet Shore could tell-; And Valiere curs'd.' 'The first was a penitent by compulsion, the second by sentiment; though the truth is, Mademoiselle de la Valiere threw herself (but still from sentiment) in the King's way.

as Occurrences 2%

Desirous of pleasing her husband and her daughter; a little penitent as to her previous treatment of Cadurcis, now that time and strange events had combined to soften her feelings; and won by his engaging demeanour towards herself, Lady Annabel had of mere impulse resolved upon the act; and she was repaid by the general air of gaiety and content which it diffused through the circle.

at Occurrences 1%

In a few years there will be no Blue Penitents at Figeac.

before Occurrences 1%

Thus with Mr. Tebrick, for as he had been beastly, merry and a very dare-devil the night before, so on his awakening was he ashamed, melancholic and a true penitent before his Creator.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Why did I triumph in the strength of guile that desperation gave me, rather than sink abashed and penitent beneath it?

into Occurrences 1%

The duty of educating the layman and watching over his life, must of necessity change the wandering penitents into settled monkswho dedicate themselves to the care of souls, missionary activity, and the acquisition of knowledge, and who only now and again fulfil the duty of changing their place of residence.

on Occurrences 1%

It told how a fast woman of Egypt, Mary by name, followed pilgrims to Jerusalem for no good purpose, and then, turning penitent on finding herself withheld from entering the Temple by supernatural interference, fled to the desert and spent the remainder of her life in solitary penance.

out Occurrences 1%

"The confessor on this took his penitent out of the confessional, and having looked at her attentively in the light, said, "Well, madam, you may use rouge, for you are ugly enough even with it.

than Occurrences 1%

But I'm telling you the truth when I say there never were honester penitents than the Pymeuts.

Which preposition to use with  penitents