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Now they had mounted the steps of the Calvary and known their bitterest agony; the crucified nation had expiated its faults and would be born again.

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.

In Colonel Grey’s opinion Grit Lawless had expiated his crime.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills

Jules had expiated the crime they had imputed to him!

From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Souvestre, Pierre

But we had loved him; and we still loved him, and he had expiated his crime by a year's unimaginable torture.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

Some of them had expiated their offence already.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old