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Mr. Gladstone said to me in leaving the room: "Within six years, if it pleases God to spare their lives, they will be repenting in ashes."

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

A few hours hence, and those pious persons will be repenting of their sins on cabbage and onions.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various