Example Sentences

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Lisa will rectify all that, and then the old man will have atoned for his sin.

From Lucky Pehr by Howard, Velma Swanston

His master groaned, And begged with tears, as one by fear unmanned To die, for then his life will have atoned For what may hap unless his note were sent with speed!

From Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst by Pryer, William Stephen