Shuffling penitentially on your knees, bending and scraping with dustpan and brush while vicious pine needles perforate your kneecaps...it's almost enough to make you feel like Christmas might, in a twisted way, be the descendent of some sort of primitive religious festival. ❋ Sam Leith (2011)
Beck has followed up 1999's electro-manic "Midnite Vultures" with a return to gloomy acoustic mode (just as he followed his antic breakthrough "Odelay" with the penitentially somber "Mutations"). ❋ Unknown (2007)
I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property, — much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with a thoughtful aspect. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Our heads, shoulders, and hands were penitentially kissed, and presently the fellows returned to bind up their hurts in dirty rags. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She asked Mary Livingston, whom she greeted almost penitentially, to order her a bath of asses 'milk and to request a bread porridge for her, laced with cinnamon and sugar. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)
They come into a grand comradeship with God, not in the old time spirit of supplication and service, not asking, not seeking really, not even penitentially suppliant, but in the new found glory of a faith that looks up in perfect confidence of its ONENESS, and which speaks from the very depth of its own glorified selfhood, and knows that "I and my Father are _one_ and all my Father hath is mine." ❋ Julia Seton (N/A)
His last lingering doubt respecting this matter appears to have been removed while, during an official visit to Rome in 1510, he was penitentially ascending on his knees the sacred stairs (_scala santa_) of the Lateran, when he seemed to hear an inner voice declaring, "The just shall live by faith." ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
During an official visit to Rome in 1510 he was almost overwhelmed with sorrow because of the moral corruption there; but while penitentially ascending on his knees the sacred stairs of the Lateran, he seemed to hear a voice thundering in his soul, "The just shall live by faith!" ❋ Unknown (1913)
This low room, four by seven feet, with a narrow bed penitentially hard, a stationary wash-basin, a row of iron clothes-hooks, a foot-high oblong window above her head -- what was it? ❋ Leroy Scott (1902)
With the greatest fault and the only crime that Charles in his whole life committed Mr. Macaulay does not reproach him -- the consent to the execution of Lord Strafford -- that indeed, as he himself penitentially confessed, was a deadly weight on his conscience, and is an indelible stain on his character; but even that guilt and shame belongs in a still greater degree to Mr. Macaulay's patriot heroes. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
She pointed penitentially to a sheet of figures lying on the study table. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Mrs. Dysart took off her bonnet, a sacred edifice constructed of cotton velvet, frowzy feathers, and red glass currants, and gazed at it penitentially. ❋ Margaret Collier Graham (1880)
Mr. Hepburn penitentially knelt to pick up the fragments, and Westlake murmured over his head: 'As long as it is we who are the cracked.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)
The poor lady was afflicted so keenly that, in instances where one of her sex and position in the social scale is bound to perish rather than let even the shadow of a laugh appear, or any sign of fleshly perception or sympathy peep out, she was seen to be mutely, shockingly, penitentially convulsed: a degrading sight. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
I carry the banner aforesaid; verily and penitentially I do. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
