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It is a rosary of marital infelicities that Daudet has strung for us in this volume, and in every one of them the husband is expiating his blunder.

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham

Saton turned out of Bond Street, and climbed the stairs of a little tea-shop with the depressed feeling of a man who is expiating an offence which he bitterly repents.

From The Moving Finger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Nobly she is expiating the past, and has long since worthily won the "well-done" of her moral self.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

We believe that he still lives, and up to this time is expiating the great sin which he sinned against the saint; but they say that at certain times he is a lunatic.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

Then said the mother, "Let him alone, it is a poor sinner who is expiating his crime."

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret