Why should I be penitent, and all the world go free?

He took a moment to sober up, not at all penitent.

"I for one have never been a very penitent man," he continued.

I spent an hour this morning dealing with the penitent woman.

But could I manage it - even if they were penitent?

They all appeared very penitent, and begged hard for their lives.

For three years past all that a sincerely penitent woman can do I have done.

I am very sorry,' he repeated trying to sound more penitent.

There's not a scrap of use sitting there looking like a penitent child, either.

The King himself made a penitent pilgrimage to the cathedral.

Well, to tell you the truth," he went on, "I am not a bit penitent.

With all my heart; and much it joys me too To see you are become so penitent.

In such frame of mind sinners come to the penitent form.

He was a good and penitent man, in the manner of our kind."

He stood for a moment, a pitiful figure of penitent confusion.

Then he saw the bandage about her brow, and was very penitent.

He looked so penitent and anxious, she had not the heart to reproach him.

Pounding like a penitent fist upon the wrong side of his breast.

His chief uneasiness was that he could not be truly penitent about it.

But as the morning whiled away, she found herself more irritated than penitent.

I'd been effectively incapacitated, not in pain, but certainly penitent.

I hoped to bring you back, Martin, penitent and humbled.

The "penitent sinner" is still something of a prophet in his own land.

I've taken your preaching to heart, and I've come to the penitent form.

The Master watched her rear end perform a penitent dance.

Close the church; there will be no more penitents tonight.

That is why the number of penitents has been increasing over the past 10 years.

With penitents' faces covered, no single person in the group stands out particularly.

One of the hospice's penitents also died due to the disease.

Three years later, 1212, a group of penitents placed themselves under their spiritual direction.

He even felt a mixed affection for the crazy penitents.

Stern he might appear to penitents, but not more severe to them than to himself.

Behind the penitents came a man of vast stature and proportions.

Two penitents rose and entered the confessional at either side.

One morning, the confluence of Penitents was greater than usual.

There were moments when they seemed burdens for religious penitents to bear.

The penitents are taken down when they feel cleansed of their sin.

The other two stood with their backs to the door, heads bowed like penitents.

Not in penitence: she had seen penitents, and this was none.

They had been living under the same rule as the married penitents leading more routine forms of life.

Especially noticeable is the treatment which bishops are ordered to give to penitents.

The Christian movement known as the Penitents goes back to the 4th century.

It was as if the two were testing the penitents, probing their reaction to the decision.

The penitents form a procession and they walk together to a shrine, a church or any sacred place.

Then they would go to the town hall in the main street leading to the church, which the penitents would take on their way back.

Do you by chance have penitents' cells within your Walls?'

The letter emphasizes the need for penitents to "name their own sins", except when this is not possible.

Like penitents, they pass up legitimate opportunities to spend, borrow and invest.

The congregation of penitents at Paris, was founded with a similar view."

"The people love to see penitents make public demonstration of then- contrition.