And yet, to kill her unshriven will be a twofold crime. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)
The early Spaniards called it Las Animas, but after the death of unshriven pioneers in the area, it was aptly renamed El Purgatorio. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like the punishment of unshriven mortal sins in an eternal hell ❋ Unknown (2006)
I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration to use when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage in something like the punishment of unshriven mortal sins in an eternal hell. — ❋ Unknown (2006)
Ill-omened hag! unshriven be her sins nor mercy visit her on dying bed, i. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He almost laughed at the thought -- it was better than what the Catholic priest in the tiny adobe church in his little village in the mountains of northern Mexico had promised him; Father Ortega had often assured him that he'd go right to the flames and torments of Hell as soon as he died unshriven -- but he could not push it away. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Me, the heir of their founder — me, whom their foundation binds them to pray for — me — ungrateful villains as they are! — they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled! — ❋ Unknown (2004)
Dick was paying some tribute to things unforgotten, unshriven, unexpurgated. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Still, I won't die unshriven-and I'll trust you for a conditional absolution. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
Every other type of birth control is a mortal sin for which you go directly to hell if unshriven at the hour of death. ❋ Macdonald Ann-Marie (1996)
He had watched her weaken, he had seen her eyes close, he had heard her breathing stop, and he had let her die unshriven. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)
She is dead, she was thrust into the ground unshriven. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1989)
Could you not bear to be still a sinner unshriven, rather than betray my daughter's name to the world, and she so long in her grave? ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1988)
Like the unshriven dead, zombies on the loose, holding the chains in their hands, they trusted the rain and the dark, yes, but mostly Hi Man and each other. ❋ Morrison, Toni (1987)
Dionisia had suffered too profound a reverse to take any such risks again until time had dimmed the recollection of sudden unshriven death coming to meet her. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1987)
She had looked closely on sudden death, unconfessed, unshriven, and she wanted no part of it. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1987)
