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Example sentences for "full confession"

  • He at first made an effort to bluff the officers, but failing in this, agreed to make a full confession on the condition that he should be released from custody.

  • After the trial he made a full confession to Gen.

  • Seeing that he was in for it, Seminole made a full confession.

  • He shall be interrogated strictly to-morrow, and, I will answer for it, will make a full confession.

  • Your sole chance of avoiding the torture is in making a full confession.

  • Chambers then offered to make a full confession, but Owen, continuing obstinate, was conveyed back to his cell.

  • So it seems," replied James; "and I am greatly disappointed, for I was led to believe that I should hear a full confession of the conspiracy from his own lips.

  • Further proof became needless, for when every chance of escape was gone, they made a full confession, and appeared to glory in it.

  • Nothing could exceed his distress of mind if, in cases in which he was prosecuting attorney, a convict died persisting in his innocence, or without a full confession of guilt.

  • She was dying miserably, and had sent for me to make a full confession relative to Wilson's murder.

  • Four years passed without the detection of the murderers, but in the beginning of 1807 one of them, at that time just sentenced to transportation, made a full confession, and implicated Holloway and Haggerty.

  • Next morning he made a full confession in presence of his attorney, and the governor, Mr. Cope.

  • Shortly before the day fixed for execution, Bishop made a full confession, the bulk of which bore the impress of truth, although it included statements that were improbable and unsubstantiated.

  • Here is our friend," I said, "be discreet, and you will see that he will make a full confession.

  • I must make a full confession in writing without hiding a single circumstance; for if he thought he was being duped his fury would be terrible.

  • Anastasia left me while I was asleep, and when I awoke I found myself in the somewhat ridiculous position of being obliged to make a full confession to the marchioness as to why I had failed in my duties to her.

  • Well,--if he had been overheard he would abide by the result and make a full confession; if not his lips should remain sealed.

  • He determined to make a full confession of his transgression to her before leaving, feeling persuaded that thenceforth she would look upon him with abhorrence and thus would not sorrow at his departure.

  • It was not that he had made any resolution to this effect, but rather that a full confession, with its consequences, seemed to be the only possible outcome of what had happened.

  • But that sign, that hope, can only be a full confession.

  • For one minute Caroline hesitated, but then resolved she would atone for her fault at least by a full confession.

  • There can be no reason for this fearful obduracy, not even the consciousness of greater guilt, for I promise forgiveness, if it be possible, on the sole condition of a full confession.

  • In their examinations they contradicted each other, and the leaders were obliged to make a full confession of the truth.

  • Norfolk himself, who was entirely ignorant of the discoveries made by his servants, was brought before the council; and though exhorted to atone for his guilt by a full confession, he persisted in denying every crime with which he was charged.

  • It was only a matter of hours before he would go to the General and make a full confession.

  • I told him to consider it carefully; full confession and a full pardon, or--the utmost rigour of the law.

  • An hour later Peter, the valet, reported himself to General Beilski and obtained his free pardon by a full confession.

  • He immediately afterwards ran from the house, but was apprehended subsequently on the same evening, when he made a full confession of his crime.

  • And in the silence of that night he made a full confession to the chaplain, with the request that it might be made public the next day.

  • She was arrested; and, making a full confession of her actions, was sentenced to death, and burnt.

  • He was then released; restoratives were applied; and, while he hovered on the border of sensibility, he was induced to sign 'a full confession.

  • She called the bishop and made a full confession of her whole life's story, hiding nothing, palliating nothing.

  • Miserable Eleanora di Piero de' Medici was buried ceremoniously in the family vault at San Lorenzo, and Piero made a full confession to his brother, the Grand Duke.

  • There, during her make-believe convalescence, she came to consider the very serious nature of her love's stratagem, and she determined to make a full confession to her lover.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apple tree; been doin; but sometimes; full account; full armor; full armour; full bloom; full cargo; full cock; full confession; full daylight; full face; full gallop; full head; full light; full load; full meal; full pardon; full power; full swing; fully aware; fully convinced; fully discussed; fully persuaded; never heed; pretty maid