And the gigantic Dominican, having shriven the whole ship, stood calmly communing with his own spirit.
When Clement had shriven him and prayed by him, he, in his turn, sought counsel of one who was dying in so pious a frame.
But yet some mad fools say, for to eschew slander they will beshriven once a year and comuned [receive the Sacrament] of their proper priests; though they know them defouled with slanderous vices.
The Lord answered and said, "A sick man and sore wounded had need to have a sure Leech and a true, knowing his cure; and therefore a man should be principally shriven to GOD; and else his confession is nought.
Truth is stern, Huber; fight then lustily, and get you shriven to-morrow.
The Duke had made order that but little wine was to be given to the troops, and that they were to ride into battle shriven and fasting.
As for that, said Sir Bors, I will be shriven with a good will.
How Sir Gawaine came to the abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a hermit.
How Sir Gawaine came to the Abbey for to follow Galahad, and how he was shriven to a Hermit.
And so then her ghostly father was brought to her, to be shrivenof her misdeeds.
And of every one of these sins they must be shriven by their priests, and pay a great sum of silver for their penance.
By Saint Remi, I had liefer that ye were never shriven than that they go hence unshamed.
Whenso that they are shriven they will go rob here or there; it is even as the confession made between Reynard and the hen-hawk,--such repentance falleth at a breath.
Then was she shriven by a priest, and the men came nigh to bind her to the stake and light the fire.
Then sent she for a holy man, and was shriven and received the sacrament.
Wilt thou go home, and be shriven of thy parish priest?
She will not go to church, neither hear mass, nor hath she shriven her this many a day.
From the time that Alfred knew how his brother yearned for Dunstan's forgiveness, and that he would be shriven by none but him, he had sought to accomplish his wish.
We were all of one mind that it was best to have the ten thousand with the curse; but in some way they prevailed upon Sir John, so that we were blest and shriven against our will.
Well, well, it is no great matter for my Company, for they were all houseled and shriven ere we left Twynham Castle; and Father Christopher of the Priory gave me his word that they were as fit to march to heaven as to Gascony.
And in front of him, not far away, were two white, lightning-shriven spruce stubs standing like ghosts in the night.
Lying with his back to the pillows he looked out into the starlight, watching for the first glow of the moon and listening again to the owls that had nested in the lightning-shriven tree.
The chivalric glory of a man being shriven in his helmet, ib.
He was shriven by a priest, and soon afterwards died, as, with true Christian piety, he was imploring his God and his Saviour to pardon his sins, and to show him mercy rather than justice.
He himself believed that Jim had gone forgiven into whatever lay behind the veil we call death, had gone shriven and clean before the Judge who knew the urge of youth and life.
He looked for Indian Tom's swamp, and where it had been there was no longer a swamp but a stricken chaos of ten thousand black stubs, the shriven corpses of the spruce and cedar and jackpines out of which the wolves had howled at night.
For there were only ghosts to answer back and the hollowness of a shriven pit for the cry to travel in.
Only the two lines of steel caught the moon-glow and the charred ends of the fire-shriven stubs that rose up out of the earth shroud and silhouetted themselves against the sky.
And whan thou shalt beshriven to thy curat, telle him eek alle the sinnes that thou hast doon sin thou were last y-shriven; this is no wikked entente of divisioun of shrifte.
Men sholden eek remembren hem of the shame that is to come at the day of dome, to hem that been nat penitent and shriven in this present lyf.
In the broad blaze of light the scene is shifted, the golden effulgence melts and flows round that sea-girdled kingdom, where quietly but surely the two great engines of Authority are being shriven apart.
Again, an imprisoned felon who has determined to "pull straight" following his discharge, may be shriven of serious blame for either active or passive participation in procedure which furthers his early parole.
So shriven by her joy she glowed It seemed a sin to chat.
There, Shriven and sure, the sun-dipped lance shall leap Till Dream uncorselet clay and put off sleep.
And as touching the Earl of March and Lusy his man, they said me both, that the Earl was not shriven of a great while, but at all his confessors put him in penance to claim that they called his (p.
When thou hast finished thy penance, and severe it is, son, for greatly hast thou sinned, shriven and absolved from guilt, thou canst return and again mingle amongst thy fellows.
Take me to Adiva, dear Denewulf, and then will I tell thee of all that hath befallen me, and why I am with thee to be shriven for the ordeal.
He shall not be shrivenuntil he declareth the truth.
When Clement had shriven him and prayed by him, he, in his turn, sought counsel of one who was dying in so pious a frame, The hermit advised him to be his successor in this peaceful retreat.
