Use confession in a sentence
Sentences starting with confession
- Confession of an old crime and deliberate perpetration of a new one; for deceased's contribution is a robbery of his heirs. [5]
Sentences ending with confession
- He was furious with her, furious with himself for having spoken that which might be construed into a confession. [9]
- He gave it to the Cure, who put it on her finger one day after confession. [11]
- It was all the old bishop's fault; he had not kept his promise that her tale-bearing should remain as secret as a confession. [10]
- Do you know that that is a concession--and a confession? [5]
- With some, Joan's speech had wrought an effect; others feared she might die under torture; others did not believe that any amount of suffering could make her put her mark to a lying confession. [5]
- She knew that Sonya with her severe and simple views would either not understand it at all or would be horrified at such a confession. [2]
- Well, in the sociable frankness of that night in Bendigo I brought this all out in full confession. [5]
- She expected to receive from the Spaniards a place where she could pray and free her soul by confession. [10]
- Her mind was one luxurious confusion, through which travelled a ghostly little sprite, who kept tumbling her thoughts about, sneering, smirking, whispering--"You dare not go to confession--dare not go to confession. [11]
- Nor does any one at Asquith, except perhaps Miss Trevor, by her own confession. [9]
Short sentences using confession
- There the confession was made. [9]
- Burgess made a confession. [5]
- Isn't it an amazing confession? [5]
- It's another confession. [5]
- There's frank confession. [11]
Sentences containing confession two or more times
- Is it that you say one must go to confession, and in order to go to confession it is needful to sin? [11]
More example sentences with the word confession in them
- There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago. [5]
- For the mass, you have some right to speak; it is your duty perhaps; but the confession, that is another thing; that is the will of every soul to do or not to do. [11]
- It was a woman's confession, and her voice fell to a whisper as it threaded the last words. [6]
- Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
- Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
- The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
- The night before when, after her conversation with Els, she began to pray, she had feared that she had fallen into the snare of earthly love, and dreaded the confession which she had to make to her aunt Kunigunde. [10]
- If at home we wince before any official with a sense of blighted inferiority, it is by general confession the clerk at the hotel office. [6]
- When the mother was told --on the first day--that her disease was typhoid, she was frightened, and asked if there was danger that Helen could have contracted it the day before, when she was in the sick-chamber on that confession visit. [5]
- Since entire concealment was now impossible, the question was,--how complete a confession would be necessary? [9]
- Once within its walls, and confession made to the priest and absolution obtained, the wretch with a price upon his head could go forth without fear and without danger--he was tabu, and to harm him was death. [5]
- Within its stern walls Nathaniel Durrett had made a model universe of his own, such as the Deity of the Westminster Confession had no doubt meant his greater one to be if man had not rebelled and foiled him.... [9]
- This is a very dangerous confession, for fifty years make everything hopelessly old-fashioned, without giving it the charm of real antiquity. [6]
- I forced myself to endure it as long as I could, but it was too pitiful a sight; so I made frank confession to that effect, and we retired. [5]
- She had wept, to be sure, at her husband's confession, and lain awake over it in the night watches, and thought of the early days of their marriage. [9]
- He found it, then, or got it clandestinely; send for him, and let him confess the truth; let his confession be sifted. [5]
- This confession, with the sudden glimpse it gave him of the fires within her that would not die down, but burned now more fiercely than ever, sent the blood to his head. [9]
- When Cynthia turned, the points of color still high in her cheeks and the light still ablaze in her eyes, she surprised Jethro gazing at her from the porch, and some sorrow she felt rather than beheld stopped the confession on her lips. [9]
- At this confession the old man broke out violently, he flung his file, and the iron bolt at which he was working, on to his work-table, exclaiming: "And this is the way you executed your commission. [10]
- Perhaps among all the letters he ever wrote, there is none more characteristic than this confession of violence and eagerness for reprisal, followed by his acknowledgment of error and a manifest appreciation of his own weakness. [5]
- When she reached the hospital this Sunday afternoon her step was quick, her smile bright--though she had not been to confession as was her duty on Easter day. [11]
- Twice a year the Cure made it a point to visit Jo in the interests of his soul, though the visits came to little, for Jo never went to confession, and seldom to mass. [11]
- Mr. Washington repeated the confession you made to them, sir, in a manner that did you credit. [9]
- He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
- I don't believe the chambers of the Inquisition ever presented a more alarming array of implements for extracting a confession, than our young Doctor's office did of instruments to make nature tell what was the matter with a poor body. [6]
- It will be the beginning of the confession which I shall afterwards make to the world. [11]
- After the confession the almoner heard things to which he would gladly have shut his ears, though they proved that the time which the marquise had spent at the French court had benefited her powers of observation. [10]
- The senator had taken his confession as it was meant: if Thomas' daughter was indeed what Orion described her there could be but small hope for his beautiful favorite. [10]
- He did not take the holy communion this Easter day, or go to confession as was his wont. [11]
- Kuni told the sufferer what an exalted servant of the Church was ready to receive her confession and give her the sacrament. [10]
- Conrad blushed and stood folding his arms tight over his breast, while his sister received Margaret's confession with the suspicion which was her first feeling in regard to any new thing. [8]
- I intend doing something like what you suggest whenever the case shall appear ripe enough to have it accepted in the true understanding rather than as a confession of weakness and fear. [7]
- An indiscreet confession, since about half of them must have been Democrats before they were bought. [5]
- And so the simple confession he meant to make would at length evolve itself logically, and hold by a natural connection to the first agreeable train of thought which he had called up. [6]
- Lest this confession should make me seem very aged, I will add that the visit took place in 1851, and that the man was then one hundred and thirteen years old. [4]
- Should he, after she had confessed her guilt, (for he was determined to force a confession from her) shut her up in a solitary dungeon? [10]
- I know the seriousness of the times, but I have just finished a silent confession and discovered many bad traits in my character, but also the desire to replace them with more praiseworthy ones. [10]
- But it is scarcely to be doubted that there are people whom even his dying confession will not convince. [5]
- I heard it said the next day, around the town, that he had a full confession all written out, in his pocket and all ready for Joan to sign. [5]
- She had tacitly said herself that under the bitter pains of the rack they would be able to extort a false confession from her. [5]
- There is no reporting in the world so exact, so perfect, as that in a woman's mind, of the words, looks, and acts of her lover in the first days of mutual confession and understanding. [11]
- Had the librarian recognized, without confession on his part, the change in him? [9]
- It was my purpose when I got up before to make confession and beg that my name might not be read out in this public place, for it seemed to us that we could not bear it; but I was prevented. [5]
- Then the sorely pressed man perceived that nothing but a frank confession could lead him to his goal. [10]
- Charmian's confession was preceded by the statement that she longed for rest yet, nevertheless, was ready to remain with her royal friend, in every situation, until she no longer desired her services and sent her away. [10]
- Could repentance, confession, penitence, wipe away this stain? [4]
- Him, by her own confession, Cynthia Ware had loved to her dying day, hating herself for it: and he, William Wetherell, had married this woman whom Jethro had loved so violently, and must always love--so Wetherell thought: that was the worry. [9]
- As on that other occasion, when he had gone to her, this visit was under the seal of confession, unknown to her husband. [9]
- The almoner's doubt of Wolf's orthodoxy had been entirely dispelled by his confession. [10]
- The superb strength of the man was there in that simple confession, and it is in the nature of woman to admire strength. [9]
- In the wall of the church is a narrow opening, at which the priest is supposed to have sat and listened to the confession of the sinner on the outside of the building. [6]
- The very shame of such a confession, you think, is not to be borne. [9]
- He thought more of Charley than of himself, and every month now he went to confession, and every day he said his prayers. [11]
- The abbess would not forbid such love, and the impulse that drew her so strongly to the convent was the longing to know how her aunt would receive her confession. [10]
- But Howells could not bring himself to print so frank a confession as Orion had been willing to make. [5]
- True, she could not be persuaded to make a frank confession, but he, Bias, would let his right hand wither if Hermon's companion at the Dionysia was any other than Althea. [10]
- It is not much of a confession to say that I do not. [4]
- To you I might tell all in confession, and the truth about him would be buried for ever. [11]
- My duty forbids me to repeat the details, and how she bore herself even while at Augsburg, but, thanks to the confession which I have just received, I shall count this morning among those never to be forgotten. [10]
- I want to make a confession. [5]
- There, now, I've made confession, and I feel better; I am a humbug, and I've been one all my life, without knowing it. [5]
- The abbess had made a somewhat similar confession to her, the older sister, when her young heart--how long ago it seemed!--had also been mastered by love. [10]
- The false heir made a full confession and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. [5]
- The new cure, M. Savry, would have said they were involved now because she never came to confession, and indeed, since the Old Cure died, she had seldom gone to mass. [11]
- It is a loud confession that print is a poor vehicle for "talk"; it is a recognition that uninterpreted talk in print would result in confusion to the reader, not instruction. [5]
- The somnambulist had longed for the moment when, after Heinz Schorlin's confession that he loved her, she could throw her arms around his neck with rapturous gratitude. [10]
- At rare and long intervals, however, he sighs a sigh that is the eloquent expression of a secret confession, to wit "I am useless and a nuisance, a cumberer of the earth. [5]
- He got very little satisfaction, and the puzzle of her conduct was increased by her confession that she loved him just the same, and always should. [4]
- The matron had listened to this confession with an agitated heart. [10]
- The matron had listened to this confession in breathless suspense. [10]
- This confession sounded like angel voices. [10]
- In the same letter he suggests to his brother that he undertake an absolutely truthful autobiography, a confession in which nothing is to be withheld. [5]
- I do not know that that was true, but it probably was, for her mark signed at the bottom of a confession would be the kind of evidence (for effect with the public) which Cauchon and his people were particularly value, you know. [5]
- What do you know of a woman's soul-well, perhaps, you know what they have told you; but madame's soul--" "Madame has never been to confession to me," interjected M. Savry indignantly. [11]
- Her heart burst itself in entreaty and confession. [11]
- There was in it, also, for her, a confession of failure, the cry of the preacher, in sorrow and entreaty, that says, "I have called so long, and ye would not listen. [4]
- By your own intrepidly frank confession, my lord, it is become a sarcasm: If Simon Lathers--" Keep that exasperating name to yourself! [5]
- I suppose if I made such a levelling confession as this in public, people would think I was looking towards being the labor-reform candidate for President. [6]
- She hardly knew how the bold and momentous confession had got itself spoken, but she felt that it was the only veracious answer to the physician's question. [10]
- Indeed, at the hour set apart for confession, there were in the boxes saints from up-town as well as sinners from the slums. [4]
- The confession of his schoolmate had not been entirely without effect upon the young theologian. [10]
- He was giving himself the luxury of auricular confession. [11]
- The exclamation which her son's confession had elicited she still believed after long reflection. [10]
- The bearers of her litter were thickly veiled, and she had requested to be conducted to the confession chamber. [10]
- Besides, I promised her indulgence if she would make a confession. [10]
- And besides, would her confession really save the already condemned Nitetis? [10]
- His confession would help to this end. [10]
- The old Minorite's heart swelled at this confession and the sight of the maiden. [10]
- True, the utmost he intended was the confession that, while intoxicated, he had staked his property at the gaming table and said things which he regretted. [10]
- Since those days he had become a dark morose figure, living apart from men, never going to confession, seldom going to Mass, unloving and unlovable. [11]
- His determination may have been strengthened by the confession of Mrs. Benson that her family were intending an extensive summer tour. [4]
- He might now have been permitted to bind forever to his life the woman who had just rescued him from the greatest danger, but the confession he must make to his fellow-artists in the palaestra the following morning still sealed his lips. [10]
- He would simply happen into Mr. Mavick's office, and, as Mr. Mavick frequently talked familiarly with him, he would contrive to lead the conversation to Evelyn, and make his confession. [4]
- Reserving for herself half of the flowers she had gathered in the garden she glided away, in order not to disturb the dying woman's confession. [10]
- His confession, then, had been nothing but a revolting piece of acting! [10]
- If you're really going to see them, perhaps I'd better make a confession. [8]
- Now, I am going to make a confession. [4]
- It must be getting to mass and getting to confession, and saying aves and doing penance, it is such a busy little soul of mine; but we are not all alike, and madame's body goes in a more stately way. [11]
- Indeed, the little gentleman seemed to have lost his spirits, and said so little (for him), that I was encouraged to corner him that very evening and force him to a confession. [9]
- The Queensland law for the regulation of the Labor Traffic is a confession. [5]
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