Example Sentences

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Just about that time she had discovered Maxime's baseness, and was expiating the sins of the past in tears of blood.

From Gobseck by Marriage, Ellen

Brother Jacques was expiating the sin of envy.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

La Valliere, in a Carmelite convent, was doing penance for the sin of her love for Louis; while De Montespan, in the world, was expiating hers within sight of the king's indifference.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

She went with Mme. de Coulanges to visit Mme. de La Sabliere, who was expiating the errors and follies of her life in austere penitence at the Incurables.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere

The Abbé de St. Yves was expiating the wrongs he had done his sister at her feet, and she pardoned him.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by