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Error in itself is not fatal to the inner sense of right; but Bruce’s error was not honest doubt, it was wilful self-deception, blindness of heart, first deliberately induced, then penally permitted.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

Yet when it befalls me to be more moved with the voice than the words sung, I confess to have sinned penally, and then had rather not hear music.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

By the committing of magisterial mistakes I am personally and penally committed—I prepare for my trial by calling in the assistance of the tailor and the perfumer—I am resolved to die like a gentleman.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

His reign is retributive, and that not merely as penally recompensing evil, but as rewarding the faith and hope of those who waited for Him.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

Remorse is a damage, in which a man is penally mulcted; but this of mine was no more than a price, fairly and squarely agreed upon, which I was prepared to pay.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]