The wicked man, if he sin, repents not, and fails to make amends for his sin.
Blest is the king who acts with heed, And ne’er repents one hasty deed; And hapless he whose troubled soul Mourns over days beyond control.
Hayy Ibn Yokdhan at last joins Asal at dinner, but repents afterwards.
And again he said: "To rise betimes and to marry young are what no man ever repents of doing.
I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure.
Then the suddenly converted Evadne falls upon her knees and implores her husband's forgiveness, which he, seeing how bitterly she repents the life she has been living, accords.
He repents and abhors his action, and promises on his knees to consecrate to the Queen's service every day that remains to him, if she will but spare his life.
Roland repents him of the words he spake, When the youth, mad with passion, from him brake.
It often becomes enraged, acts without the slightest sense, and repents at its leisure.
The mother, however, soon repents of her engagement, and the scholar is left disconsolate.
Nor,' added they, 'will he escape this torment unless he repents him of his misdeeds.
Who now but Arcite mourns his bitter fate, Finds his dear purchase, and repents too late?
My thoughts in fair alliance and array Hold converse on the theme which most endears: Pity approaches and repents delay: E'en now she speaks of us, or hopes, or fears.
Authorities note, however, that he whorepents of the cause of pollution before the pollution results is not guilty of the actual pollution.
Sacrament and must have a pure conscience, or when one is gravely tempted and will surely fall unless one repents of the past).
Finding out his mistake, he of course repents again, and expresses himself with a good deal of eloquence which would be more effective if we could forget the overpowering pathos of the parallel scene in 'Othello.
The old sailor's heart is broken at last; and his brotherrepents too late.
Truly there is pardon for every sinner who, in the depths of his soul, repents of his sin.
And I believe, if Jacob prevailed in prayer as a prince, it is our privilege to believe God hears and answers prayer and saves to the uttermost the vilest sinner who truly repents of his sins, and claims His promises.
Answer to the complaints of Caroli--refuses to grant to him the professorial chair unless he repents of his past offences, 198 LI.
Answer to the complaints of Caroli--refuses to grant to him the professorial chair unless he repents of his past offences.
A clergyman once said to me: "If a man repents and gets converted one hour before his death, the worse he has been or lived, the happier he will be.
He repents and is sorry for having created man; and Exod.
He repents Him of the evil He had intended to do unto Israel.
He shows anger and is appeased, displays sorrow and repents Him of the evil.
Repentance is not a virtue, that is to say, it does not spring from reason; on the contrary, the man who repents of what he has done is doubly wretched or impotent.
Nor," added they, "will he escape this torment unless he repents him of his misdeeds.
Any wicked soul that repents and induces one or two others to do likewise shall be allowed to set this off against the punishments which should be inflicted.
And Gobryas made answer: "It repents thee: may that repentance never cease!
Thy poet, I dare say, Repentsthe pledge he gave thee.
St. Martin will absolve the devil if he repents 122.
Here he absolutely alters that statement by one altogether at variance with it--that God is grieved at heart and even repents of having created man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
