| 单词 | sin |
| 例句 | The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Now the men on the bridge walked the earth with the terrible burden of dark mortal sin on their souls, and hell was the only reward. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because once you kill the animal, it’s a sin to waste anything that can be eaten....Besides, it tastes good.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She knelt heavily in a corner near the piano, under the sign that spoke of the wages of sin, and now and again she moaned. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it’s a fortnight since my last confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Why must he, the blameless one, wash away his sins and endeavor to cleanse himself anew each day? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon spills its cool light to make shadows darker than sin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They called him Dirtyhands because there was no sin he would not commit for the right price. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She told Daddy all my sins and started to cry, which made me cry too, and I already had such an awful headache. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “We all carry our sins, Nina. I need you to live so I can atone for mine.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “But enough about that. You asked about sin and I want to tell you. Are you listening?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, “Hello, Reverend Thomas,” I would choke on the sin of mocking him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess your sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your debts. And now I’m paying for your sins by watching the world move on without me. I can’t go to college like my friends because of you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The swineherd there says that the needy and the stranger are from Zeus and he who fails to help them sins against Zeus himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They would answer him that they had been many years without a priest, arranging the business of their souls directly with God, and that they had lost the evil of original sin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Maybe the sin will be washed away, kind of like what’s supposed to happen in baptism. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “But what if you don’t have any sins?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Two nights before the first communion, Father Antonio Isabel closeted himself with him in the sacristy to hear his confession with the help of a dictionary of sins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaven only knew what new sin committed by the minister’s son was being announced over the phone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He adopted the Southern editorial policy, “Love American motherhood and hate sin” and never mention Negroes except in a manner harmonious to the Southern Way of Life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it’s a fortnight since my last confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As Anatole says, if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you’ll go crazy if you think it’s all punishment for your sins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember, in any case, that I would sometimes hear with irony warnings about sins of the flesh. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The crime of the Japanese erased all lesser sinning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, he would sit down on a narrow bench, put his ear to a small window, and listen to all who wanted to tell him their sins and clear their conscience. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “A sin is when you do something that makes God angry.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It only took a few incautious words and fearful whispers to convince them that the Devil had found their village and was looking for souls to lead into sin. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I set it down only so that newcomers to bumdom, like teenagers in new-hatched sin, will not think they invented it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Other lucky children might merely be thrashed for their sins, but we Price girls are castigated with the Holy Bible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s like Mikey Molloy, never made his First Communion, wandering around in a state of sin, never made The Collection, never saw James Cagney. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Oh my God I am sorry for all my sins, “Because they displease Thee, Lord, Who art all good and deserving...” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the con-gregation made public confessions of sin, while people off camera shouted, ‘Hallelujah, sister! Hallelujah, brother, preach it!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cross over from innocence to sin. If you can.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I knew that my sins grieved the Almighty and so I pleaded for forgiveness. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Secrecy is important, I know that: to violate it would be the greatest, the irreparable sin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why do these proud men cast their sins upon us? Go on.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I must have sinned and hence brought the grief upon myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I could distinguish sins of commission from sins of omission. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the back of his neck grew as red as boiling sin, and I knew he did begrudge the extra time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z One of her most familiar lectures is on the sin of wasteful spending. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Is that what you wanted? To choke us and kill us all with sin and darkness?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I want to argue with her, tell her that “sins of the flesh” is just a control mechanism—if you demonize a person’s pleasure, then you can control his or her life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In religious instruction classes, Sor Juana had told how God clothed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden after they had sinned. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He took a long strip off now, wondering if it would be a sin to open his window and lean out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I have sinned, I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word, and deed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His response was that it hadn’t washed away my sin for all that. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Well, suppose the Lord wanted Miss Love to marry Mr. McAllister, hoping she could save him from his sinning ways, and suppose she had married him, but then he just kept right on chasing women? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “A wicked dream, no doubt. You are a wicked man. Will you pray with me and ask forgiveness for your sins?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A man of gain and sin: They found him in the millpond With his skull bashed in. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Jenny, I have all my life been in another sin, the worst of all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's a sin and a shame," an old man hissed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The cardinal sin, the one thing you were never, ever to do, was lose your keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if you die with a mortal sin on your soul?” he asked, and his voice was cold. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At home and in class I heard about sin and Christ and Satan and the consoling presence of Mary the Virgin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Northern posturing on this matter was insufferable, as Jackson saw it, since their oozing arguments transformed a geographic accident and a product of historical circumstance into a willful sin. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It is God who has sinned against me!” his voice thundered, and we fell back in horror at the blasphemy he uttered. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Should I confess my sins and pray, in case the potion proved too strong? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But, Ultima, how can he go to communion? How can he take God in his mouth and swallow him? Will God forgive his sin and be with him?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sin, sin, I felt drenched and sick of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just the best private school around, so my parents sent Lauren and me there anyway. We’re basically sinning our way through religious school. It’s great.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone to hell for his sins.Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy us,” and her voice rose shrilly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Fazlullah claimed that watching movies and TV shows was a sin because it meant that women would look upon men, and men would look upon women, who were forbidden to them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And when Katie came in and lit the gas, chasing the shadows away and paling the light in the stove windows, it was like a great sin that she committed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as he believed in anything, he believed the guards’ preaching about original sin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The sins of the town would be washed in the waters of the golden carp... Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Folks always say my daddy is a godly man, but he don’t leave much room for things that ain’t a sin. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Okay, Bones, okay,” I nodded my head, “it’s your sin.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is why the Holy Koran forbids sharab. Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk. So it does.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I am seized again and again with pains that mount like sins and pierce like swords. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The sins of the fathers belong to you and to the forest and even to the ones in iron bracelets, and here you stand, remembering their songs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks like he has sins, big juicy ones. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My mom says it’s true, but only because everyone has sinned and needs God to save them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The Pope assured Christians that anyone who died, even along the journey, would have his sins forgiven and earn a special place in paradise. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z This dramatically changed racial climate has led defenders of mass incarceration to insist that our criminal justice system, whatever its past sins, is now largely fair and nondiscriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "I've got a funny feeling that something evil is waiting for me up there, Otis. It's a bad house, full of misery and sin. He's still there, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z They invented sins that would satisfy teachers without provoking draconian punishment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He died in his third year in high school and I was one of his pallbearers, and I think I was guilty of the sin of pride at being chosen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Speed that was good for picking and for clopping her little ones across the face for idleness and other sins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was as tenacious as sin and it took some time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma and her son laughed and laughed over the white man’s evilness and her retributive sin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s accusers retreated, and Jesus forgave her and urged her to sin no more. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not trying to justify the sins of my youth by saying that I couldn’t control my instincts: nothing of the sort. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My own mother had said that losing your innocence and becoming a man was learning to sin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing was considered more of a sin in our house than wasted time and motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z And this sounds pretty good to Dill even though part of him realizes he hasn’t had very much time to sin. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I believe it is the worst human sin. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Oh my, another item has been added to my list of sins. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Gabriel listened as Cabot Searcy yelled the following: “I have sinned. I have sinned. Help me, oh Lord. I have sinned.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “If you commit this sin to save a life, have you destroyed the world, or have you saved it?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Showing off money was a sin. It was not that status was not important, but marriage was very closely controlled and predetermined, and everyone knew where everyone else fit.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Then, as they rose sputtering and blinded and were led to the shore, he cried out again: “Go thou and sin no more.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And then after a long pause, he said, “It’s a particular sin for rabbits to dance.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Because the Church people in my world, right, they’re frightened of Dust because they think it’s original sin. So it’s very important. And my father...No,” she said passionately, and stamped her foot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that anything that made a person feel the way I felt at that moment had to be a deadly sin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Night or day, whenever the queen closed her eyes to sleep, one of her captors would appear to wake her and demand that she confess her sins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Then she gave me a long lecture on my sins, and told me to sit and think them over while she just ‘lost’ herself for a moment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Petey Thunkle did not use his time wisely. Not a grave sin in itself. But, there was a single critical moment that changed everything. Would you care to hear about it?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Yes, he had sinned: one morning, alone, in the dirty bathroom, in the square, dirt-gray cupboard room that was filled with the stink of his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Kepler was amazed that he—immersed, so he thought, in sin—should have been divinely chosen to make this great discovery. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got a better sin than Horse! Bless me, father! Bless me, father! Bless me, father!” he repeated. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, had the thought not been blasphemous, he would have thought that it was the Lord who had led him into this theater to show him an example of the wages of sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Yes, and I shall go into a Nunnery for my sins, and live happily ever after. What shall we sing now?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the sin of pride took hold of me with a fierce grip. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “No ma’am. Pride is a sin. And ’cording to the Good Book, it goeth before a fall.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her parents, however, could not forget, even though they both agreed that demonic possession was a sin too great for such a tiny child. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the sins he has committed, he thinks he has no right to ask God for anything. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “The wages of sin is death, are they not, my brothers?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z How could he believe that his dear Annie suffered for sins she committed? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was highly likely that the serpent of sin that nosed about the chambers of my heart was lashed to hunger by hymns as well as dreams, each reciprocally feeding the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve always been the clown and mischief maker of the family; I’ve always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He had grabbed one of my hands and he clutched it tightly, as if some holy power was going to pass through it and absolve him of his sins. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I don’t want my sins washed away, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s six sins Against them, But they just can’t help Themselves. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Father always says, if the Lord can’t inspire you to leave off sinning any other way, why then, it’s His business to scare the dickens out of you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had once vowed that I would never call her aunt again: I thought it no sin to forget and break that vow now. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He felt in some way that it was a kind of original sin, a terrible thing he’d done that spoke to a dark thing inside of him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I was mighty glad,” said Elisha soberly, “to see little Johnny lay his sins on the altar, lay his life on the altar and rise up, praising God.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Out.You should be running to the priest and confessing your sins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z His father always told him lies were a sin against oneself, and he was certain that dozens of people had already reported the explosions at the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z All his weekday liquor sins are washed away, and I have my grandfather back, even if it’s only for one day a week. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I reckon he thinks my living alone in New York is ipso facto living in sin.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And with that came this realization: that Rahim Khan had summoned me here to atone not just for my sins but for Baba’s too. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I regarded it with that giddiness that comes of sin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was an obscure specialization, but the candlelit and treacherous universe in which they moved—of sin unpunished, of innocence destroyed—was one I found appealing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when they were together, he tried to tell her of what he felt, how the Lord would punish them for the sin they were committing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “The sins of the father are not discussed. That’s how it is.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Every night Jorge told a bedtime story and afterward invited the boys to confess sins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to beat sin out of him. I’m going to beat it out.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z That years from now, the baby will be out, but the sin will still be there. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I said, “This isn’t the South. This is New York, and I’m a new Christian bffore God and I’m not living in sin anymore.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am talking about the sin against society of which you are guilty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is no sin,” my father spoke up, “only a fact of life.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At church he has the power to forgive sins and consecrate the host. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Here we take it black as night, sweet as sin.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I ran the last twenty yards or so, even though running in the halls is one of the deadly sins at Camillo Junior High, right up there with pride, envy, wrath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In the Sin-On Bible, John 5:14 exhorted the believers not to “sin no more,” but to “sin on more!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Death and sin must not claim me now! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Why do you walk into sin?” he asked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Flies,” he remembered, “On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand, may seize And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She counts off my sins on her fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And what sins have you committed in a day, my child? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Every magazine he touches will be a mortal sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Once they were considered the visible punishments for concealed sins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had committed the cardinal sin of putting his own interests ahead of the organization and the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even back when we were very young I remember running to throw my arms around Mother’s knees when he regaled her with words and worse, for curtains unclosed or slips showing—the sins of womanhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying anything is better than Jesus is a bad sin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But they ’bout to get a big surprise; justice sleeps but not for long and one day when it wake up, all sins is atoned for.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She had a smile like the Listener, She Who Hears Prayers, who refused release from the cycle of lives until all her brothers and sisters too could be freed from sin. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Some god had pity on her, traitor though she was, because she had sinned through love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Soon enough. And you gave him a daughter. So, you see, your sin is even less forgivable than mine.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Old as sin and twice as ugly, the lot of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I shouted, “there will be no punishment, there will be no penance! His sins are forgiven!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how heavy last night’s sin lay on his soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But others countered that if comets were the smoke of sin, the skies would be continually ablaze with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it’s hot as sin and steam’s already rising off the blacktop, kids are throwing balls, kicking cans, skipping rope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z How could there be sin in loving Hamlet in truth and faith? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z On a visit home Pa lectures him against sin and sends him back to The Hague with religious missives to read. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He thought of how sin led to sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z How could Mother have let me sin so openly? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “That is what you do to yourself when you walk into sin. You bum your feet,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this was the one sin that he couldn’t bear to admit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My mother can easily speak to a priest in a darkened confessional; can easily make an act of self-revelation using the impersonal formula of ritual contrition: ‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned....’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So they could see, couldn’t they, the power of sin in the company of a weak mind? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He would do such work himself as an example to his followers whom he taught that idleness and laziness were among the black man’s greatest sins against himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That is the soul when it commits mortal sins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams concurred that the reunion in heaven would permit them to laugh at their human follies and foibles, though he would talk with Franklin only after the great man did proper penance for his sins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I thought about telling everyone in town to stop their sinning, or drown and die. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Milton was cleansed of original sin, Desdemona remained cognizant of her iniquity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I go to confession and they hiss that I’m not in a proper spirit of repentance, that if I were I’d give up this hideous sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Laziness was sloth and sloth was a sin. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So I don’t know which one, if it was a sin or it wasn’t. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was only ignorant, and what was the sin in that? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They were busy calling out sins for Mrs. Mackey to write on a blackboard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was as if I contained an unnamed sin that made me less than nothing in their eyes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a sin to take anything without permission. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Second and third, you must believe wholly in the Bible and that Christ died so we may all be forgiven of our sins. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “I think loving a girl is a sin, but I don’t hate you for it,” Dad said. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He put my sins in a new perspective. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They confessed to all sorts of creative sins, and Jorge was so pleased that he hardly ever punished them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if the dear Lord can forgive me for all the times I wished my husband dead,” said Angelina, crossing herself, “surely he has forgiven poor Agnes her sin.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And I sinned all right, just praying perfect little John Worth would turn on the crate wrong and go tumbling to the floor. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z And if I’m ready to confess my real sins, I have to admit that I used that info to push him to the farthest edge of fearlessness so I could watch from below. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Although he looked harmless, I knew he was a dreadful angel counting out my many sins. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be bad enough, but every few minutes, George’s mother stops in to give me a lecture about “the sins of the flesh.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “I say that because...I always thought people like Lee and Dale were wrong. Like, they were living in sin.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Es sin pecado,” was the last I heard, then we were outside. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As I suspected, she has lashed herself with a rope, trying to purge herself of sin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A humble and a contrite heart proved to have benefits over and beyond cleansing the soul of sin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For which of my many sins am I accused? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The treasure had been given back to the earth, and it would be a sin to steal it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Septa Moelle would tell her that it was her sins that kept her sleepless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If she was willing to punish a child for her husband’s sins, would she be any less willing to punish me if she knew that I was where she wanted to be with Kevin? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But I had told everything, everything I thought was a sin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few songs some black brothers remembered skills learned at the courts and castles of their youth, before their sins had sent them to the Wall, and took the floor as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then she rose again, brazen with her various sins—pride, gluttony, avarice, uncooperativeness—and for each she paid with a life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!” the cleric repeated into the mike, lowering his voice, enunciating each word slowly, dramatically. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This, and not that other, his deadly sin, having looked on his father’s nakedness and mocked and cursed him in his heart? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Laila saw three drops of blood on the rug, her blood, and pictured her parents sitting on this couch later, oblivious to the sin that she had committed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z To Granny, I had accomplished a miracle and some of my sinful qualities evaporated, for she felt that success spelled the reward of righteousness and that failure was the wages of sin. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The sins were flying around that room like blackbirds in a cornfield. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He says to tell a lie is a sin, and that any man who lies for his own gain and does not repent will spend eternity in the agony of hell’s flames. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I’m not sure which came or ended first, the God or the sin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The column of smoke does not break, but hovers above the city, as above the Cities of the Plain when smote for their sins. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But Grandma said that would be a personal sin. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ancient custom at funerals to hire poor people to take upon themselves the sins of the deceased. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother's Methodist, so I think that makes us all Methodist. But not my father. He never goes to church. He doesn't want to miss football, probably. Which I think must be a sin.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z At one point Perot, believing his motives had been misinterpreted and hoping to convince people that improving education in Texas was not a mortal sin, contemplated coming to Odessa to speak. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her curse had devoured the first Royal; he had been begotten in sin, and he had perished in sin; it was God’s punishment, and it was just. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “The earthquake was in the Atlantic, and lower Manhattan got hit by a tsunami. Big one, too. Like the tidal waves haven’t been enough to wash New York clean of sin.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Maybe she had lost someone dear to her—Clara?—and instead of putting it aside like Mama, she carried that hurt and anger around with her like a sin. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Let me never see the day when my children will have to accept that, the wages of sin,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For medieval Christians, the existence of such a chain of humans provided a most powerful and original understanding of original sin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z You may have seen the spangled palaces of sin and fancy dancing in the false West of the movies, and maybe some of them existed—but not in the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But you, Ben, would be much too pious to eat sins for money. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A button off was more than sloppiness; it was a sin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a sin to look at dirty things. The gods have punished you to make you blind.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But my sin was bigger!” he snarled and leaped for my throat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When she’s cleaned it up enough, she attempts a bite as if it’s the original sin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The priest whispers to me again, Bad women, bad women, occasion of sin, and I don’t know what to say to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her stories, however, of the goodness of good behavior collapsed before the thrill of the sin they deplored. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Catholic or not, I still thought it a sin for a guy to just barge in five years later with a bottle of expensive wine and assume you'd drink out of his hand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “You are ruined and undone by this sin!” a puritan’s voice rebuked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mikey said if there was a sin it would be on his soul and he wasn’t a proper Catholic anyway so it didn’t matter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Their fathers, the Grigori, were then bound to hell for all eternity for the sins they had brought to Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Though I dress in white like a nun, I feel the stain of sin, of mortality, around me like a bright girdle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Our ministers preach sin and hell just as much as yours,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His teacher had warned him that he would need to work harder than his classmates to wash away the sins of his mother and brother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ain’t you heard how Jesus said go and sin no more? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She doted on her sons, watched over them carefully, and made it her business to keep them away from sin and foolishness. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Yeah, when they want to sin, they’re very democratic,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I shouted back, “and I have absolved him of his sins!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If no one has said outright that spying on Mr. Axelroot is a sin, then God probably couldn’t technically hold it against me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But I’ll admit I prayed that afternoon that Father had taken Rachel’s apology as a confession, so he wouldn’t think the sin was mine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go on, then. You know it’s a sin against the Holy Spirit to willfully keep something back at confession.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She offended him because she was so brazen in her sins, that was all; and he prayed for her soul, which would one day find itself naked and speechless before the judgment bar of Christ. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I have not sinned!” he shouted, looking me square in the eyes, challenging me, the priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then my sister said, “Divorce is a sin, you know.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z That means the righteous, Christian thing about going north with Cap’n Buck is that by bringing thieves back to pay for their sins, we’s helping to right a great wrong. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I never sinning I always winning Now I got Jesus. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although she knew that honest and conscientious doubts could not be a sin, and she told him so, she had to be honest with him about her fears, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re telling me you have actually been tasked to help the Pandavas? What is this, your penance for committing so horrible a sin?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “What do you say? North or south? Shall I atone for old sins or mike some new ones?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, he said of that morning that his sin was on him; then he knew only that he carried a burden and that he longed to lay it down. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that the double negative was declared a sin against the King’s English, on the ground that one negative canceled the other. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Job bore them witness, and Abraham was their father, Moses had elected to suffer with them rather than glory in sin for a season. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Faced with two evils—stealing from a living boy, or wishing him dead to take his food guilt-free—I realized I could more easily have the sin of stealing on my conscience. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the saints, his mother and his father, the warnings he had heard from his earliest beginnings, he had sinned with his hands a sin that was hard to forgive. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And I saw it in their brutal language and hard gaze, how they would cut you with their eyes and destroy you with their words for the sin of playing too much. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He had killed the sheriff and so he had died with a mortal sin on his soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean, you don’t understand? What he’s doing is a sin!” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There was much excitement in the town as the news spread that the blood on the hill was sweet and a curative for all sins. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But I sat still, filled more with disgust than sin. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We were able to sin; able to ask forgiveness for sin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I still have the sin in me, the abscess, and I hope it doesn’t kill me entirely before I see the American priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “We’re asking God to forgive any sins we might commit by mistake.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In these prayers I acknowledged my great unworthiness to my Lord Jesus and searched my heart for every sin to which I could confess. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He believes that they are closest to the state of original sin, and he tells them this. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he’d manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They’re the last things we’ll give up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Unlike others who have described their Catholic schooling, I do not remember the nuns or the priests to have been obsessed with sexual sins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the million sins that had been revealed in this small, dark space. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t wrestle before mass, it’s a sin,” Lloyd cut in. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z How many of his sins belong also to me? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not stealing, I’m borrowing, and that’s not a mortal sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I have spoken with His High Holiness. He will not release you until you have atoned for your sins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Magisterium decided that Dust was the physical evidence for original sin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z That’s why they have different sins, the sacrilege, the mortal sin, the venial sin.Then the masters and grown-up people in general talk about the unforgivable sin, which is a great mystery. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I’ve lumped together into one big sin all the hundreds of times I thought evil of people at Central,” I said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But that is Rachel to a T, trying to work in just one last sin before leaving civilization. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Do they not beg, force, and sometimes deceive women into yielding their virtue? Women do not sin this way alone, you know.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I have sinned and must atone, must parade my shame before the eyes of every beggar in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I think maybe he will not stop until every single one of us has promised never to sin again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In White’s desperation to get Hale, he’d committed the ultimate sin of an evidence man and believed, despite apparent contradictions, what he wanted to believe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Further, they were to confess their sins to him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Quasimodo has nine sisters and it is said his mother never wanted him but that was what the angel brought her and it’s a sin to question what’s sent. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was committing the sin of embarrassing her in front of a guest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I’m going to beat sin out of him. I’m going to beat it out.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But I am only bad, I thought to myself, wishing yet again I knew what sin was embedded in me to have brought God’s hand so hard upon me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z She replied that such wastefulness was certainly a mortal sin and that God would punish all of them for spending on nouveau riche vulgarities what they should be giving to the poor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Medieval travelers were a hardy bunch, and sometimes walked hundreds of miles in order to atone for a sin or pray for a miracle. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The breeze today was the kind you opened the shutters for, the kind that carried away old sin and flakes of sadness. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Lord, how they rocked in their bed of sin, and how she cried and shivered; Lord, how her love came down! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z "The Dothraki mate like the animals in their herds. There is no privacy in a khalasar, and they do not understand sin or shame as we do." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the time, he was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker’s wages, but he was ready to devote his life to battling sin and alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z That hard sacrifice will wipe out my sin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And yet he too drew down on himself the anger of the gods and by the sin the gods never forgave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on, he heard about his sins, arid he repented sincerely, but he thought the amending was harder than it had any right to be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Yup,” Cico said, “the whole town. The golden carp has warned us that the land cannot take the weight of the sins—the land will finally sink!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of apologizing for other people’s sins. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Father Byrnes went on to discuss the difference between mortal and venial sins. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Father, I don’t know how to say this. I think I committed a sin.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it a sin not to go to church?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Bora now realized that he must either commit mortal sin and save the lady, or refuse to commit it and let her die. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has she confessed her sins and repented of them?” he asks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He also started to lecture the kneeling boy about sin and wrongdoing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that was how sin came into the world,” he said, “sin and shame and death. It came the moment their demons became fixed.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When her captors came for her, she made pious noises at diem again and told them how determined she was to confess her sins and be forgiven for all that she had done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or, perhaps it wasn’t a sin at all, but something else. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In every church he entered, his sin had gone before him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I am a physicist,” he snapped, “and I have no knowledge to lose in which physics has caused me to know sin.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But theft was the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the third grade I could distinguish between venial and mortal sin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With the first years of puberty, the last years of grammar school, we began hearing about ‘sins of the flesh.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachael said, “Or we could live in sin, except that I’m not alive.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The shock of my sin and the emotional release of her prayer had exhausted her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Honey, I know women who are artists with makeup and still are ugly as homemade sin.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have to gain as much ground as possible and accept that the mountain of his violent sins was too large to climb in this lifetime. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I guess Presbyterians would call it sin, but I don’t think it was sin. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She had grabbed my arm and whispered that my refusing to see our father was a grave sin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He died alone and without the priest’s last absolution for all of his sins. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Humanity sins but it’s God’s Son who pays the price? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I know I shouldn’t have left school, but Amá is always talking about how it’s a sin to waste this and that and it feels like a sin to waste a day like this. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Yes, he had sinned, and his father was looking for him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There are five different prayers: for health, wealth, a death, a birth, a sin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a blameless sinless woman, yet she understood how it was with people who sinned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But on the side of doing what you think is right she wrote, “The sincerity of showing yourself as you really are. The real good it would do the world not to have artificial sins.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So even though I know it’s a sin, I open the box and take a look. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin—and of joy, which, if not explicitly a sin, at least clears a path to it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “And don’t give me any pigheaded reasons why you can’t take it. Pride’s always been the great sin of our family.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sin punishable by having his heart fed to a horrible beast called the devourer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The addition of a $3-per-pack “sin tax” is a strong economic incentive against buying cigarettes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was frightening to think of missing mass on Sunday, then dying, and for that one mortal sin to go to hell forever. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Manichaeans, see, were followers of this Persian guy who lived in the third century. They believed that hedonism was the only way to get rid of their sins.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Come, all ye disconsolate and sore of heart. Lay down your sins and troubles before the blessed feet of Him who died to save you. Wherefore goest thou, Brother Blount?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But I for sure knew, and it was my own grandfather’s wife I was hankering after, which seemed like an awful sin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I suppose the moral is,” said Arthur, “that you must not commit mortal sin, even if twelve lives depend upon it Dogmatically speaking, I believe that is sound.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What had been their divine gift was now their mortal sin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her cry came to him from afar, as from unimaginable depths; and it was not his sister’s cry he heard, but the cry of the sinner when he is taken in his sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z His face was very close to mine now, and when he shook his head to tell me again that he didn’t have sins I saw a frightening truth in his eyes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sayin’, though, it’s a sin to waste talent like you got.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But the black man always says, “I forgive you, man. I forgive you for your sins.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t spend ten or twelve hours a day studying chess and another six to eight hours on Bible studies; and the constant surfacing of impure thoughts and other minor sins was plaguing him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Think that you are now to go out, before the largest and most honourable gallery that can be assembled, to make a public demonstration of your sin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I said to myself, “If this boat goes under, I will commit my last sin on earth and run over those two boys to get that lifejacket.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember I put out some set hooks late one Saturday, thinking if I caught a fish, it wouldn’t be a sin to take him off the hook next morning. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At the Rad Lab, it seemed, one could get away with a half-finished research project, but shirking one’s nighttime shift operating the machine was a sin. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And truthfully, if any of us was disposed to use curse words, it would be Adah, who could not care less about sin and salvation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Grandpa Tweedy, Papa worried all the time about sin on Sunday. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Once I have confessed, will I be permitted to—” “Your Grace shall be dealt with according to your sins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They’d gobble everything and then go on about my sins and the hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been thinking very well of myself for some years, but if my sins had this dimension there was some pride left. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She told me about Hell and sinning and how we go to church to learn how to live in God’s image. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I did not know he had committed any sins, that he could commit any sins. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt guilty instead because I could not focus on my sins, could not think of anything except how near he was. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I made the sign of the cross and said, “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,” and I made my first confession to him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t enough to accept that Jesus had died for my sins, and to try and not break any of the Ten Commandments, to be kind to people. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Midway through this process Rosa surprises me by committing a cardinal sin—she passes me a note. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “I suppose the Devil has as many faces as there are sins. At the moment however, I think of him as Lord Furnival.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Yes, my child, and what sins have you committed? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They behaved as though it were an awful sin to overlook even one of those unspoken rules and step out of “their place,” to cross some invisible line. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Does that mean I want to be washed clean of my sins? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I tell him it is and he says it’s not a sin and I don’t have to tell the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And Deborah had said, in that heavy voice of hers: “You know, honey, the Word tell us to hate the sin but not the sinner.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z You know, to eat the sins of the rich. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He smacked her hard for the sin of pride, and made her do The Verse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A person that commits a sin like that is never too good for the post office or anything else. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Babies, bawling, fatherless, for bread, and girls in the gutters, sick with sin, and young men bleeding in the frosty fields. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “It’s a sin to throw out molasses like that. I’ll put it up for you this evening.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the way Papa shook his head when he talked about liking sin, as if something weighed him down, something he could not throw off. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we can’t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the ‘thou shalt’ that struck me, because it was a promise that Cain would conquer sin.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She makes the single exception of confessing her sins to a Catholic priest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After you die, your sins will be put on one side of a scale, and Ma’at’s feather will be put on the other.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Without caring that people could hear her she asked herself aloud what horrible sin Amaranta had committed to make her prefer an impious death to the shame of confession. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If they made a verdict that she didn’t want Tea Cake and wanted him dead, then that was a real sin and a shame. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to relegate Christianity to the level of folklore, so I could deal with its fantastic claims about the nature of man and sin. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Cal watched his brother triumph over sins he had never committed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Practicing magic is a sin against God and a violation of the law,” Sir Fabian announced. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She says, 'I don't aim to birth no sin for folks to look at all the rest of my life, and I don't aim for Matty Lou to neither.' Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not a priest, I cried, I too have sinned! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Obedience will grant me freedom; therefore let me vow it. I will reveal my life’s story and confess my sins if you let me stay among you always!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You’ve already read this book. I’ve seen you, and besides, it’s only a silly novel—not fit for reading, and a sin on the Sabbath—” Lyddie could feel the gorge rising in her throat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And we heard a priest say that it was a mortal sin to read newspaper accounts of a Billy Graham sermon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A veritable fountain of youth in our dolmades and taramasalata and even in our baklava, which didn’t commit the sin of containing refined sugar but had only honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was, after all, guilty of the sin of “pride, ” wasn’t he? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I have not confessed my sins to Father Alphonse, and Mother knows this. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Rather, I feel like Job railing against God for taking everything from him. I am not sinless like Job. Yet I do not understand my sin!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You know it, I know it, God knows it. Do not compound your sin on the flesh of innocents! It shall not cleanse!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At prayer meeting she moaned and sighed over Cholly’s ways, and hoped God would help her keep the children from the sins of the father. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I was no better than she was, nor worse for that matter We were both guilty of the sin of self-regard, the pride and the exclusiveness by which we cut some people off from ourselves. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Look to your own sins, Lord Renly," she said as she wheeled her horse around. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I’d always feared they would. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He puts the phone to his ear and smiles at G’ma, feeling “guilty as sin,” as she would say. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z She’d be one more sin of mine, to be chalked up to the account he’s keeping in his head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I bet leaving your children behind so you can start a new life is a sin. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z A dragon killer, he was, a rescuer of damsels, and his small sins seemed so great to him that he felt unfit and unseemly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have pledged my love to you, and now I will marry you. Then we may touch each other most nearly without it being a sin, and no one else may touch us.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Honestly, I’m not sure if what you did was a sin anymore. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I felt sort of bad about it; it was lying, and lying was a sin, and so was going against your father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was clearly shocked but couldn’t seem to put her finger on my specific sin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to get rid of this sin and have rashers and eggs and no guilt, no torment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That I wasn’t part of every mistake that’s led us to right now, January 17, with all its sins and griefs to bear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The wages of sin is death!” he shouted with his fist raised high. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But after the burn, thinking about the future feels wrong in some way, an abstract sin. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z But it was not until communion—it was not until we finally took God into our mouth and swallowed Him—that we were free of that sin and free of the punishment of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The words didn’t make any sense, as all I could hear was the last recitation of my sins. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They involved doing penance for a sin not yet committed, intense and fervent penance accompanied by scourging and flagellation, so as to build up, as it were, a store of credit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was an example of folly being as fatal as sin, for he meant no harm; he merely did not use any intelligence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And his mother required of him one proof only, that he tarry no longer in sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Her Bible, some candy, and all the sins of our family. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Good morning. You look like pale blue sin,” he said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I knew that if you broke your oath it was the biggest sin a man could commit, because God was witness to the swearing on his name. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If we do not, we have sinned before God and before our fellow citizens of the great state of Mississippi.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “There’s lots of hard work to be done on repenting for sins. Have you listed your sins?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But which one among us is without sin? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad says that it would be a sin against God for a person not to use the skill he or she was born with. And I think we can both agree that I have skills.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Once he had asked Elizabeth—they had been married a long while, Roy was a baby, and she was big with Sarah—if she had truly repented of her sin. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z And a woman was likely to have strange tastes, some said for filth, and it was set down to the Eve nature still under sentence for original sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Join your brother in the army of the Lord! Pray the redemption prayer and be freed from sin!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z God, You know my sin!” he cried suddenly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was like all this, and it was like the walls that witnessed and the placards on the walls which testified that the wages of sin was death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z If you died with a venial sin on your soul you could not enter heaven until the sin was absolved by prayers or rosaries or masses from your family on earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no question that she did damage to the town by exposing raw nerves and bringing up the sins of Chokecherry’s past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Historians who project large Indian populations, Low Counter critics say, are committing the intellectual sin of arguing from silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All my life I had been taught that marriage was God’s will, that to refuse it was a kind of sin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then Gramps said, “I hope nobody minds if we stop at Yellowstone. It would be a sin to miss Yellowstone.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Take her away from this sin and hate NOW! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “And He carried your sicknesses! Your sins! Forgave your transgressions! Your imperfections!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I begged God forgiveness for my sins over and over. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was mainly an elderly lady—” “Ugly as sin, calls herself Wilcox?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps her sin was so extreme that it could not be forgiven; perhaps her pride was so great that she did not need forgiveness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z All Persians are liars and lying is a sin. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the 1920s California was not the place to be for a man in a sinning frame of mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I always believed any sin was easily rectified if only you let Jesus Christ into your heart, but here it gets complicated. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had sat me on his lap when I was little, looked me straight in the eyes, and said, There is only one sin. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s the sort of lie that wouldn’t cause any harm—and some people say it is not a sin to do that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Born and bred West Virginians, it seemed to me, had a suspicion of anything that was too much fun, as if it were maybe a sin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew the Catholics thought killing yourself was an awful sin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Since you’re a man of God, I’m going to tell you a story, confess some sins.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We reviewed our recent sins with our girl cousins until late that night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The keys are also still in it, which is the number one sin any cabdriver can make in pursuit of a runner. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I guess it’s better than “hate the sin and the sinner,” but I don’t know why anyone needs to hate at all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel: to him ascribe all sin. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “It is no sin to desire to five, no cause for tears.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z White suspected that Hale would never admit his sins, certainly not to a lawman and perhaps not even to the God whom he so often invoked. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Finally, appealing to Desdemona’s fear of God, Tessie told her that it was a sin to miss church when you were physically able to go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” I said, sitting on the very edge of the chair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Among the assortment of possible sins to commit, sexual sins—the cherries—were certainly mentioned. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as there was sin in the world they could not be banished. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Quakers, he argued, were infamous innocents incessantly disposed to drip their precious purity like holy water over everyone else’s sins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She had not suffered enough for her sins, her penance was yet to begin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I swear by heaven, though now I must be shriven for doing so! Therefore come, let us go and together lose our sins.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She worries Mikey might have the fit and die and go to hell if he has any class of a sin on his soul though everyone knows he’s an angel out of heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew, as everyone knows, the true but incomplete statement of the problem—that an original sin of the fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The conductor loves the notion that you can be made anew, free of sin and therefore worthy of love and salvation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I never heard of a sin like that before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “If she wants help, let her repent her sin. You are never to go to that place again, Katherine. I forbid it.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “I never sinned against my own body again. The good father did that for my own good.” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m out on O’Connell Street and why shouldn’t I take the few steps to the Jesuits and tell all my sins this last night I’ll be fifteen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Ugly as sin, but she makes herself felt. You agree?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumpled, apparently, was a look, not a sin. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Then I folded it over some more, walked over to the rubbish bin, placed my sin at the bottom, and gingerly covered it with the rest of the trash. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z On the streets, from a distance, they’d scowl at us, thinking we were merely the scourge they already knew and loathed—the mixed-race couple, with mongrel children as advertisement of our sins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you die with a venial sin on your soul, where do you go?” he asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course she runs to Mam and they agree the only way I can make up for my terrible sin is to deliver Bill Galvin’s dinner for a fortnight without pay. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There wasn’t a fur coat in Cold Sassy, but any time he talked about sin he brought up fur coats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maudie, who lived a less complicated life, had had fewer sins to confess and had gotten out sooner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if it hadn’t been a sin I would have felt badly about it, because Father trusted me and I was being dishonorable. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fallen indeed: time was no more, and sin, death, Hell, the judgment were blotted out. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There is a breed of desert men, not hiding exactly but gone to sanctuary from the sins of confusion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me one sin,” I pleaded with Florence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That he made the mistake of entertaining an evil desire and that desire gave birth to sin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I keep reading The Irish Times and wondering if it’s an occasion of sin though I don’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Venial sins were small sins, like saying bad words or not going to the Stations of the Cross during Lent. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They played it from a tape, so not even an Aunt would be guilty of the sin of reading. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z How is it that she, whom I once hated, now listens without judgment to my sins and even persuades me that I have taken part in a miracle? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But as we shall see in chapter 6, using a comma to separate a subject from its predicate or a verb from one of its complements is among the most grievous sins of mispunctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because here’s what I’ve finally realized: How can something that makes me so happy be a sin? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The rest of us were born steeped in sin, the sin of our fathers that Baptism and Confirmation began to wash away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple months ago I’d been arguing over food court bourbon chicken that colored denim was a sin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z You asked me to renounce my sins; I ask you to renounce yours. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I shouldn’t have been surprised to find the basement still looking like an advertisement for a couple dozen of the carnal sins. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people—eternal life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t that be a sin and surely you wouldn’t want Frank to commit a sin on his First Communion day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One of those little children stole, which is a bad sin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z McGarrity was a man with a great sin on his soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She said the devil would certainly take me to task for my sin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “White people, too, need to come to him so he can forgive them their sins.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a real sin to confess to the priest next week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He sucked a nipple that was not there, slavered on the neck of a girl he had barely spoken to, foamed over a sin that took place in the uncontrolled cosmos beneath his skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had learned that every sin causes fresh sin; every wrong brings another in its train. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I committed a sin against my own body once,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Farmer thought for a while, then said, “In your particular case, that would be a sin.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He insisted that more and more crimes be confessed, and Matt soon found himself repeating the same sins. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first couple of months, she measured my sins every morning and called in the results to my doctor once a week. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “I believe that Christ alone can rescue me from despair and cleanse; me from sin,” I say, tears spilling from my eyes, though I try to stop them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was secret, like sin, and slimy, like the serpent, and heavy, like the rod. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Everyone has sins. Otherwise you’d be an angel—they don’t have sins.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She had entered a convent in Mozambique, where she spent many happy hours listing people’s sins and praying for them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Mama says you can’t hardly even call it a sin when they need ever little thing as bad as they do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think it a sin to ignore all those people who take their valuable time to write to you? You were so good about it at first.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that he ever really said the word sex, even when it was burritoed inside another word; it came out more like “homo-sesh-oo-ality” and even more often simply as “sickness” and “sin.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z These confessions were numerous, since I had become convinced there was some sin embedded in me, a sin I was desperate to root out. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We trot away and I know dozens of Leamy’s boys are committing the deadly sin of envy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I beg your pardon, truly. The child, then, is in the position of Eve, the wife of Adam, the mother of us all, and the cause of all sin.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt lightened, transparent as sky, after confessing my sins to a priest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They aren’t just bad parents who were ashamed of their daughter for a teeny, tiny sin. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And if this temptation does take place, and if the child gives in, then Dust and sin will triumph.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I’m serious. I try really hard not to get sins.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I am only baptizing in water, but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know. He is God’s Lamb, who is to remove the world’s sin.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Something shivered in him as the word sin was spoken. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I don’t know if I’s gone use it, knowing it’s a sin against God, but I wasn’t in my right mind. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Quickly were her sins confessed and quickly absolved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba saying that the only sin that mattered was theft. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The mote in his brother’s eye, not the sin of his own household. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t just turn into a sin, it destroyed him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z A curse seemed to hang over the family, making men sin in spite of themselves and bringing suffering and death down upon the innocent as well as the guilty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Is my sin a failure of virtue, or of competence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When the penance had reached the appropriate level for a particular sin, the penitent was granted absolution in advance, though he might never be called on to commit the sin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Liza had a finely developed sense of sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “But it’s not fair to those who don’t sin!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Venial sins are lighter, like a rash instead of measles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one stood with bowed head, preparing himself to confess all of his sins to Father Byrnes. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you saw the sin clearly and you walked right into it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Those are closets for telling the priests your sins. You go in there and kneel down and tell all the sins you committed during the past week.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Carl who is nice to everyone said that he felt very sad, but could never kill himself because it is a sin. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It would have been a cardinal sin to cover up those luscious chestnut locks. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z To take her mind oft things, she reverted to her old habit of saying the rosary in the slums and confessing her sins to Father Antonio. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And he had tarried too long, he had turned aside in sin too long, and God would not hear him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I sin against Sofia spirit I pray she don’t find out, but she do. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin’s real fresh and original.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ways of sin are curious,” Samuel observed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I guessed I'd resolved the soul and sin thing by lapsing from my heavy-duty Catholic background, giving up my immortal soul for a blues kind of soul. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We even had to work on Sunday, which was a sin. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t say go waller in yore sin!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For my part, I felt that I had somehow committed a sin of betrayal by learning English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not believe that he had ever sinned against God! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A cross that’s practically burning a hole into my clavicle for all the sins simmering in my stupid head. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I saw us walking slowly, silently, toward a far, verdant part of die convent grounds, where suddenly, and without sin, I would put my arm around her waist. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you. Pride is a grievous sin. The stone men were proud as well, and the Shrouded Lord was proudest of them all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I have sinned most grievously, this is my atonement. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “But your sins are more serious still, because you were given the truth and have turned from it.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To our left were the other bridges of Manhattan, arrayed against each other like alternating sin and cos waves, carrying a smattering of late-night trucks whose tops trailed mist. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, you fools with your morals and your sins. It doesn’t much matter. We were going to kill you anyway. We’ll take the belt after you’re dead.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Christ, Chaplain! Can you imagine that for a sin? Saving Colonel Cathcart’s life I That’s one crime I don’t want on my record.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z To these men “poverty was a punishment for sins,” not a condition to be remedied—and most especially not by government intervention. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The truth was—and how great my shame—I no longer wished to live; which was, I knew, a sin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Sweet amens fell from her lips as she was chastised for all her sins. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was later to become his proud testimony that he hated his sins—even as he ran towards sin, even as he sinned. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Only upon reaching that one-hundredth verse do you finally understand you are being punished for the sin of insolence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not let Hamlet cast upon me the burden of his sin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sins of our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It would make me curse and I didn’t care whether cursing was a sin. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it’s a minute since my last confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I guess he’d hooked her up with some methadone and taken her straight to Ted, who’d been quick to drive out her evil, forgive her sins and usher Jesus into her heart. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Jesus Christ, it’s like they can see into your soul. Cornbread knows my sins, Henry. Cornbread knows what I have done, and he is here to make me atone.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Anyway, the General Oblation Board grew out of ideas like that, and out of the Church’s obsession with original sin.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I tell him the usual sins and then, I stole fish and chips from a drunken man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin? The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Others say it was a judgment on us for some great sin, though I never heard any agreement about what that sin was. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Plagued by a sense of sin, did she feel that Fard’s accusations had weight? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I had done penance for one sin,” said Lancelot. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If we did not, ours would be the greater sin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Actually, he has a point, there, Father. It is a sin to expose your nakedness to a stranger.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice, to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I thought hard of all the sins I had ever committed, and I said as many prayers as I could remember. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sins of past lives, maybe. I don’t know.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We drove past Rosie’s house and I thought about the sins of the town and how the golden carp would punish the sinners. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards taught him and other children in the camp that they were prisoners because of the “sins” of their parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And now there we were, confessing our sins. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My forehead was still tender to the touch, and the stitches were as ugly as sin, but I was feeling better. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The ablutions were good, but they were water; they did not wash sins away, they did not relieve the distressed heart. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z People in their black minds remember sins committed secretly and wonder whether they have caused the evil sequence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A ship of goodness ploughing through a sea of sin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam thought sometimes that if he could only find out what sin it was she had committed, why, he would sin it too—and not be here. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Addie said that it was a sin for anyone to use the word “hell” and that what was wrong with me was that I had nobody to guide me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know I wouldn’t do anything like that, Tim. Drunkenness is a sin.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure. Take me to a beer hall for lunch. Some birthday party this is! Look at these people. Steeped in sin. Brains the size of walnuts.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But ever since he had been a child, he had wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man’s sins. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He always encouraged Father Benedict to call and win that person back into the fold; nothing but mortal sin would keep a person away from communion two Sundays in a row. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I’ll take him to the Jesuits for they know the sins of the Pope himself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “This is not your sin, Sonny,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And little Jeanne, peering at the illuminations in the book on her lap, is no daughter of Eve, bringer of sin into the world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good—death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you died with a mortal sin on your soul you could never enter heaven. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The scabbard was soft grey leather, supple as sin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had defeated him—she had sinned against his empire and now would emerge victorious. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So yeah, I don’t remember the exact details, but I know Jesus was crucified, so he could die on purpose for all our sins. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was a terrible sin to buy anything with a German or Japanese label, no matter if it cost only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He told us one day that Islam considered drinking a terrible sin; those who drank would answer for their sin on the day of Qiyamat, Judgment Day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I could have kept him in my back yard, but to pen up a dog like that is a sin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these moral principles was that it was never a sin to charge as much as the traffic would bear. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t wait for me to ask: “That means we’re asking God to keep us from sinning.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He repented a thousand sins no more wicked than another’s and despaired of ever attaining salvation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He says impurity is so grave a sin the Virgin Mary turns her face away and weeps. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “If there’s anything to be learned from this,” he said, “it’s about the stink and taint of original sin. I expect you’d better think about that while you do The Verse.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a sin to catch them,” Samuel said, “it is a worse offense to eat them. They are a part of the people.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike most American weddings I’ve attended, Iranian weddings call for formal clothing—it’s a cardinal sin to show up wearing a summer dress or something perfectly appropriate for a Sunday church service. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I wanted answers to the questions, but would the knowledge of the answers make me share in the original sin of Adam and Eve? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him I didn’t know what a sin was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z On the last arithmetic test you only got twenty-six out of a hundred, and you said that your stupidity was due to your sins in a former life. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In a spirit of contrition for multiple sins, I decide to devote the weekend to detox. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now wait—they do all your sins lots better there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought it was a sin for anybody under twenty to drink beer—but maybe he just suddenly wanted to be a sport. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yes, my sin—my greater sin...and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran’s oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world’s greatest empire. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Then in an angry tone of voice he added, “Diaz is a crook. He over charges for everything. That sin vergüenza doesn’t know who he’s dealing with.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The cause of this blight was well known: God had sent it as punishment for our sins. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “They know,” he nodded, “and they keep on sinning.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She must know about Theresa Carmody and the green sofa, how I got her into a state of sin and sent her to hell, the worst sin of all, worse than Carrigogunnell a thousand times. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I will take this reminder of your sin from you,” he said. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I had somehow lost my innocence and let sin enter into my soul, and the knowledge of God, the saving grace, was far away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The superintendent called him to his office and said that to wash away the sins of his mother and brother, he had to report wrongdoers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since me and Ma won the race, Emma’s always let the sin of envy choke her heart. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z In my mind I invented snmyhymns, as I call them, my own perverse hymns that can be sung equally well forward or backward: Evil, all its sin is still alive! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shall observe our likenesses in this mirror and reflect on our sins,” she said, touching the book lightly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I had always made bad confessions before that. I have lived nearly all my life in mortal sin. But this time I confessed everything.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are three men of sin, whom destiny has belched up ’pon this island,” Cymbeline crowed, rolling her eyes at the disturbance. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I wept for the sins of all who had brought my family to this dread dark shore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But right now Grandpa was more fun than Papa and didn’t worry near as much, if at all, about sin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If cheating to lose is sport’s premier sin, and if sumo wrestling is the premier sport of a great nation, cheating to lose couldn’t possibly exist in sumo. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Do you want to know what your father thinks about sin?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He said the words in a sour way, as if they were well-known sins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to sin in order to live again. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that’s swearing, but compared to what our lesson was gonna be ’bout, swearing didn’t seem like much of a sin no more. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Malachy whispers that Michael shouldn’t get the ashes because he won’t be making his First Communion till May and it would be a sin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It is the sin of omission, Lord,” he said, as though God did not know. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He remembered that his mother had a strong distaste for suicide, feeling that it combined three things of which she strongly disapproved—bad manners, cowardice, and sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course I do. Don’t get me wrong, there’ll always be a few lame people who make your father’s sins your sins. But for the most part? Clean slate.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Tai sin and Shae tended to the horses as usual, rubbing them down and feeding them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I had to throw away the whole pot, which is a sin, according to Amá. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Though extraordinarily diverse, these crimes all have a common trait: they were sins of information. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z You could tell they thought he was as guilty as sin, which usually wasn’t a bad way to describe my brother. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z At worst, they honored false gods and festered into sin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was too late to stall with baby sins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The story of Bors, allowing the twelve supposed gentlewomen to be hurled from the castle turret rather than save them by committing a mortal sin, had shocked her to the heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there any kind of filth with which he had not besmirched himself, any sin and folly which he had not committed, any stain upon his soul for which he alone had not been responsible? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The sins of my fathers are not insignificant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Living in sin in New York,” she said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then Mikey tells me I’ve committed a sin by listening to a story that has that word in it and when I go to my First Confession I’ll have to tell the priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then I’d confess to talking in class, answering back to teachers, swearing, not doing my homework, and a range of other sins. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Either it was a sin to keep another as property, or it had God’s own blessing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t want to commit any class of a sin with our Confirmation coming next year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I prayed that he would listen to Narciso and that the angry and frustrated men on the bridge would not commit mortal sin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gambling was invariably the sin to be eradicated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On his refusal to do this had his life depended, and John’s secret heart had flourished in its wickedness until the day his sin first overtook him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z |
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