Example Sentences

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My heart impelled me to come," he said; "to forsake my country and its cause would have been sinning against my conscience.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

Guilty as I have been, sinning as I have sinned—tell me, was I alone in the wrong?

From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson