How To Use Expiable In A Sentence
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Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a
Saint Ronan's Well
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Camerino had come on first; in an access of jealous fury the Count had struck Camerino in the face; and this outrage, I know not how justly, was deemed expiable before the other.
The Diary of a Man of Fifty
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Jewess was deemed a sin, scarce expiable; and Isabel conceived all that horror of her son's offence which was natural in a pious mother and a haughty queen.
Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
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They play a fundamental role in the capacity of colonizers to invent a rationale for their inexpiable barbarity.
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The desperate squeakings about the old house on windy nights that to Anthony were burglars with revolvers ready in hand represented to Gloria the auras, evil and restive, of dead generations, expiating the inexpiable upon the ancient and romantic hearth.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Blackpool attempted to rally, but again a series of inexpiable officiating decisions again saw an avalanche of penalties against the visitors.
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Whom of your followers have I ever injured that you thus rage with inexpiable hatred against me?
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Thousands of soldiers sweep toward the Mediterranean coast leaving behind their dead and their dreams, to wander in the Anatolian desert under a seemingly inexpiable curse.
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And first, he reproves their ingratitude, because, when they had been so kindly received, they made the worst possible return; next, he contends that the crime was inexpiable, because they had stolen what was most valuable to him; namely, the cup in which he was accustomed both to drink and to divine.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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A new Ahasuerus, cursed by inexpiable crime, yet sustained by a great purpose.
Green Mansions
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For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt.
The Sanchez Ghost
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Recourse to the discourse of human rights allows one to distinguish inexpiable crimes from those that lie within the realm of law and redemption.
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Had he only robbed the mail-coach, or broken into a gentleman's house, the offence might have been expiable; but to rob a clergyman, and a rector too!
Paul Clifford — Complete
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They confess that the cause why they persecuted their brother was his having dreamed; as if truly this ass an inexpiable offense; but if they are indignant at his dreams, why do they not rather wage war with God?
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were trivialities usually expiable at the price of a boot-assisted dismissal; but this --!
The Yellow Claw
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In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty.
Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
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And to impress upon me that I had done nothing inexpiable.
John Gabriel Borkman
