Repented

Examples

• I am glad to believe you have repented and recovered yourself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Didn't you ever keep on doing wrong, after you'd repented, my good cousin? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For I knew that except these Mohammedans repented they would go straight to perdition some day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He has repented it in sackcloth and ashes, Robert Moore, as you may well believe when you see his punishment (here she pointed to her children). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Margaret almost repented the urgency with which she had entreated him to go to London; it was throwing more chances of detection in his way. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• While her husband lived, this feeling was regarded by her as a crime, repressed, repented of. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He flushed to his haggard eyes, flushed so cruelly that she repented the thrust. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I leave you to imagine what I felt, and how sincerely I repented having been the medium of introduction between Mrs. Yolland and Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But why can't we be friends--why not, when I've repented in dust and ashes? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I read in their looks nothing but disaster, and almost repented of my efforts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Her anger never lasted long, and having humbly confessed her fault, she sincerely repented and tried to do better. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was wilful at the time, repented of afterwards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

Edited by Alison