Example Sentences

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She lived for 'Lias, but she lived for her religion too, and it seemed to her she had been sinning in her piteous talk.

From The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I soon discovered that I had been sinning against all law in admiring any thing at Versailles.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

For six months I had been sinning bravely.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne