Sentence Examples

1. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught as if the State were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment.
2. Now Siddhartha also got some idea of why he had fought this self in vain as a Brahman, as a penitent.
3. Silently, he stood there in the rainy season, from his hair the water was dripping over freezing shoulders, over freezing hips and legs, and the penitent stood there, until he could not feel the cold in his shoulders and legs any more, until they were silent, until they were quiet.
4. The wicked wolf that for half a day had paralysed London and set all the children in the town shivering in their shoes, was there in a sort of penitent mood, and was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal son.
5. You show the world this penitent face, even I believed you for a while.
6. Please spare me and the rest of the world the penitent man.
7. There would be no food until the door was opened early the next day and she would be admitted back to the company of her mother, penitent and hungry.