Example Sentences

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I am atoning for that, you see, by telling you the place and time of the meeting.

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.

Oh, I treated her shamefully; but I am atoning to her for the past.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip