How To Use Penitently In A Sentence
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Tower Hill, where he died, at thirty-four years old, both courageously and penitently.
A Child's History of England
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During the ensuing 45 minute long distance conversation, I penitently promised a variety of things to make up for my flagrant abuse of family storytelling privilege:
Duly chastised, I write again
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Queene of France fell into a grievous sicknesse, and perceiving her selfe to be at the point of death, shee became very penitently sorrowfull for all her sinnes, earnestly desiring that shee might be confessed by the Archbishop of Roane, who was reputed to be an holy and vercuous man.
The Decameron
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Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not, as the friends asserted, on account of the sufferer's extraordinary guilt, but because the discipline has not yet attained its object, namely, to lend him to humble himself penitently before God (Isa 9: 13; Jer 5: 3).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I want to know if I submit the same article to sites like mixx, digg, yahoo news and so on that use "ONLY" snippets of my article linking back to my site as the source for the rest, would I get any kind of penitently from Google?
Digital Point Forums
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Upon the report whereof, Ricciardo becomming likewise a widdower, and grieving extraordinarily for his haynous transgression, penitently betooke himselfe to live in a wildernesse, where (not long after) he ended his dayes.
The Decameron
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Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how seems he to be touched?
Measure for Measure
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Weel, minister," said Saunders, penitently, "I ken brawly I'm i 'the wrang; but ye ken yersel', gin ye had gotten a dinnle i 'the elbuck that garred ye loup like a troot i' Luckie Mowatt's pool, or gin ye had cuttit yersel 'wi' yer ain razor, wad 'Effectual
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes.
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This only happens when we come penitently to embrace Jesus Christ as our only hope.
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‘I must change my vote,’ he announced, penitently.
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His confusion at the discovery of his own forgetfulness secretly delighted her; she could have cried with pleasure when he penitently wondered what he could possibly have been thinking of.
No Name
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Or was she penitently striving to make amends for the unmerited harshness she had dealt him?
CHAPTER 10
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Our waitress, a penitently failed vegan, said this was her favorite dish and refused to charge us for it when we begged to differ.
Exurban Excellence
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The mother, usually veiled, carried the candle blessed at Candlemas and waited penitently for the priest at the vestibule of the church with her husband and female companions.
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“Well,” said Will, penitently, “you are a great scholar, Mr. Frank, and you speak like one; but gentlemen must fight sometimes, or where would be their honor?”
Westward Ho!
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It took him only a few seconds to strangle his mirth once more, and he wiped tears from his eyes while he shook his head as penitently as the low ceiling allowed.
