Sentence for penance | Use penance in a sentence

Sentences with penance. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use penance in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for penance.

  • How light a penance! (10)
  • Ay, but penance? (10)
  • From that period his penance had become severe. (4)
  • And it shall be his penance, his punishment, to do so! (10)
  • But Kuni by no means desired any mitigation of the penance. (5)
  • Weyburn felt he had done his penance in return for kindness. (10)
  • All my efforts were strained to shorten the period of penance. (10)
  • Subsequently, later than usual, he performed his usual mental penance for it. (10)
  • A private repentance and a private penance were to her incomplete and trivial. (13)
  • Salt-air and dazzling society kept all idea of penance from this vivacious young person. (10)
  • Is there not such a thing as the doing of penance out of the Church, in the manly fashion? (10)
  • Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy! (4)
  • Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. (4)
  • He told her flatly that so would she learn to know her own mind; and flatly, that it was her penance. (10)
  • And he was not one of those who do penance for that sweating indolence in the fits of desperate panic. (10)
  • Indeed, lunching at any Club in solitariness that day, with Aminta away from home, was bitter penance. (10)
  • To know her flesh so pure, so keen her sense, That she does penance now for no offence, Save against Love. (10)
  • In his heart, while doing penance for his presumptuousness, he believed that he could lead regiments of men. (10)
  • Then may it be rather the well-worn joke Thou repeatest, to stop conflagration, and write Penance for rhetoric. (10)
  • Regularly, every fresh anniversary, he had to endure the same penance, no matter where he might be, or in what strange bed. (10)
  • It will hardly be credited that the waltz with Nevil was delightful to Cecilia all the while, and dancing with others a penance. (10)
  • Excited by the coming end of her self-inflicted penance, moved by the beauty among those sunlit trees, she found it difficult to talk. (8)
  • It strives without a mark for strife; It feasts beside a famished host: The loose restraint of wanton life, That threatened penance in the ghost! (10)
  • He had thought himself bound to acknowledge that he had been the Foolish Young Fellow, wishing, possibly, to abjure the fact by an set of penance. (10)
  • They are anti-climax, recoil, cross-current; morally, they are repentance, penance; imagerially, the frozen North on the young brown buds bursting to green. (10)
  • Their interesting, almost too interesting conversation must be broken up for a time, but slight was the penance compared with the happiness which brought it on! (4)

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