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But I found them still more in the miseries, the life-long fatigue, the hard humiliations of penance, because they were expiating my faults.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James

He remarked there abbots and bishops, and even the Emperor Charlemagne, who were expiating their faults by fire, but were to be released from it after a certain time.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry