This kind of sacrament is of the Aino or expiatory type, since it is meant to atone to the species for the possible ill-usage of individuals.
This new fire was believed to atone for all past crimes except murder.
See, I am rich, and this is the least I can do to atone to your generous daughter, for not forsaking even a stranger in peril.
Wouldst thou atone for robbing me of hope by barring against me the future?
His wicked horn has been exalted over long, and it is borne in upon me that if I can cut him off and utterly destroy him, it will be a goodly deed, and one which may atone for many backslidings in the past.
After all, he was a seaman and a fighter, and, if it were true that he was eager to atone for his past, no better man could be chosen for the business.
The gracious tone in which he delivered this dictum, and the moving smile that accompanied it, appeared toatone completely for his relative's cynical philosophy.
Miss Wallingford, if you would atone for a deep injury which you have inadvertently done an innocent man, bring me fifty feet of stout rope!
However, that's all over and done with and I'll do the best I can to atone for it.
I saw Mother give one quick, involuntary look at Jen, and then gaze steadfastly at Mr. Grant to atone for it.
Now, this was disagreeable; and to atone for it, the distant colony had no great share in her mother's grace and glory.
It is His high office not only to atone for sin, but to destroy it.
Those officers who had duties to perform which had been neglected, hastened to conceal or to atonefor their negligence.
Some men might try toatone for such offences by remorse.
Patriotism means hatred of the French, and virtue is a hatred of other people's faults to atonefor our own vices.
The failure, however, of the central figure to exhibit any fixity of character is the real weakness of the play; and the horrors of the last scene fail to atone for the want of the vivid style which reveals an 'intense and gloomy mind.
When the base trick was discovered, the prior and three monks had to atone for their conduct by death at the stake.
France= took the sign of the cross, in order to atone for the crime of having burnt a church filled with men; and =Conrad III.
The Italian party, intent upon avenging this affront, invaded the territory of the Czechs, and by frightful massacres made the people atone for the abduction of the king.
I frankly confess it; and if the most humble acknowledgment of my offences, with an assurance that they have cost me the deepest repentance, can in any degree atone for them, I now make that atonement.
General Richman and lady took every method in their power to remove my chagrin and atone for the absence of my fair one; but ill did they succeed.
From this I anticipate a source of pleasure which alone canatone for her absence.
He had not primarily come back to atone for the suffering he had inflicted on Rosie, or because his love for her was such that he couldn't live without her.
They rode some distance before John, who was ever as ready to atone as he was to offend, again apologized, again promised reformation, and during the remainder of the ride only forgot himself twice more in the same way.
Yet it is an easy sort of story to do successfully, since ingenuity will atone for many technical faults; but it usually lacks serious interest and is short lived.
The young noble, with all his native haughtiness and pride of spirit, possessed a generous nature, and was ever ready to atone for the wounds which his wayward temper might have caused him unawares to inflict.
But, then, they always made up again; the youth, whose hasty spirit caused him five times out of seven to be the offender, being ever ready to atone by every loverlike device.
Also he felt that he was reposing on something very soft, with a scent of lavender in his nostrils, and a warmth and comfort to his body that went far to atone for pain in some of his members.
I was profoundly happy to see that young man return to the path of duty and equity as if by enchantment, and express regret at his errors, and promise to atone for them.
Everybody admired garden flowers,--she pitied the wild flowers, and would atone by her love to the poor neglected blossoms of the field.
Leuthold regarded her immovable features with a mixture of fear and hatred, and thought to himself, "Once let me get you on the other side of the water, and in my power, and you shall atone bitterly for all the trouble that you give me now.
Let me hope that the time may come when my mother may atone for what she said to you to-day.
Was fate to atone so soon for Hartwich's injustice?
But such embarrassment could last but a moment with a woman conscious of the power to atone by a smile for the grossest insult.
I begin to atone to the child for all the misery I have caused her?
It is incredible that a father should do so by his own child; but, now that your sense of duty is aroused, you will of course atone for your injustice?
It was an anxious object with the new cabinet to reconcile the Czar to the alliance of England, and atone for the neglect with which he considered himself as having been treated by their predecessors.
I hope I have not accumulated many faults to atone for, good sir," answered Jean Charost, smiling.
Aulney; "but, I believe, has sincerely repented of his error, and is now anxious to atonefor it.
Could my Philander imagine this short and unloving letter sufficient to atone for such an absence?
