Sidenote: Hepsie's misdeed led, when she understood it, to a bold act which had very gratifying results.
He turned his face away and leaned against the heavy chimney-piece, longing to shut out the sound of her sobs from his ears, submitting to a torture that might well have expiated a greater misdeed than his.
It would have been a blessed relief, could he have accused himself of injustice, or of any misdeed which might throw the weight and responsibility of Corona's actions back upon his own soul.
A man who confesses a misdeed is not bound to incriminate any one else, and a man whose conscience is sensitive enough to make him surrender himself naturally assumes the blame.
And notwithstanding my learning, my mind, from misdeedtomisdeed I have attained the last degree of infamy.
As a spiritual process, remorse causes the sinner continually to relive the misdeed he committed, while at the same time he is fully conscious of its atrocity.
And Iskander answering Said unto him: "Not one Misdeed to me hast thou done; But for fear that thou shouldst run And hide thyself from me, Have I done this unto thee.
After Walter had given his name to the man in a trembling voice, he stuck the reward of his misdeed under his coat and hurried out the door, like a cat making away with the prey for which it has waited for hours.
Replied Hasan, "Her torturing of thee was misdeed enow.
Behold, she is in thy hands and she hath done thee no misdeed that thou shouldest punish her.
The meaning which sacrifice has quite generally acquired is found in the fact that in the very same action which continues the memory of this misdeed it offers satisfaction to the father for the ignominy put upon him.
This is the greatest possible denial of the greatmisdeed with which society and the sense of guilt began.
Wherefore this half-breed was under sentence to expiate his greater misdeed on a given date, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, and after a duly prescribed manner, namely: by being hanged by the neck until he was dead.
I think, too, that the motives to this must have been to hinder Thoralf from telling about the misdeed of which he had information; namely, the murder which I suspect was committed upon my messengers.
He said it would be the greatest misfortune if the king mixed himself up with it; for he could not be certain that there were not people in the fray who would commit some great misdeed if they had opportunity.
He had never heard Marie van Loos so incoherent as to-day; it showed how his dire misdeed had shaken her.
He had gained nothing that last time, and since then a great misdeed had been added against him.
For that thou art now doomed to pay three hundred pieces of silver, and thereby shall thy misdeed be atoned.
If it is found that the suicide had the audacity to leave the world without the urging of some vulgarmisdeed to account for his unpleasant independence, then up goes the universal cry, 'He was insane!
She was surprised that her crowning misdeed and public disgrace were taken so calmly.
He was not devoid of good instincts; for he could repent of a misdeed or unkindness, and, after repeating it, repent again.
He understood that allusions to the partner in his misdeed would not move the Queen to kindness.
Come, sir, you had been better kept your bed, Than have committed this misdeed so late.
For which misdeed be Egypt pestered With battle, famine, and perpetual plagues!
All that remains is to decide whether the guilt of such a gross misdeed can be held devoid of criminal intent because of intoxication.
Persons who scold and lecture over every trifling misdeed are regarded as pests and do more harm than good.
XLII "Wherefore, O brutish man, for yourmisdeed Should penance by the innocent be done?
LXXV For to leave Durindana such misdeed To him appeared, it past all other woes; Though he could hardly sit upon his steed, Though mighty loss of life-blood, which yet flows.
Too late the princess weeps a foul misdeed That may involve the queen herself in ruin.
May oblivion shroud thy misdeed forever, and death not bring it back to light.
You know that, whatever a woman may do after a misdeed of that kind, she cannot repair her honour.
There is no misdeed that cannot be repaired during life, but after death there is no reparation possible.
You dare say the cause of the misdeed The Prince committed in the fight, am I!
One piece of chivalry the more you give To history, and one misdeed the less.
