Example Sentences

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If a preacher chooses to be savage; to write from dyspeptic or neuralgic states; to send his congregation, unshrived, to the nether regions—why, I shrug my shoulders and let it pass.

From All's for the Best by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

She weighed on his conscience, like a sin unshrived.

From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George