They grieved her kind heart with many cruel words; but patiently she bore with them, and when they told her they could never perform so hard a task, and must dwell for ever in the dark forest, she answered gently, that the snow-white lily must be planted, and watered with
repentant tears, before the robe of innocence could be won; that the sun of love must shine in their hearts, before the light could return to their dim crowns, and deeds of kindness must be performed, ere the power would come again to their now useless wands.
"Quite contrite and
repentant! Hem!" said the king.
It is always there--the notion of cheating people, and of using my
repentant tears to my own advantage!
The same wan day peeps in at Sir Leicester pardoning the
repentant country in a majestically condescending dream; and at the cousins entering on various public employments, principally receipt of salary; and at the chaste Volumnia, bestowing a dower of fifty thousand pounds upon a hideous old general with a mouth of false teeth like a pianoforte too full of keys, long the admiration of Bath and the terror of every other commuuity.
Yet He at length, time to himself best known, Remembering Abraham, by some wondrous call May bring them back,
repentant and sincere, And at their passing cleave the Assyrian flood, While to their native land with joy they haste, As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft, When to the Promised Land their fathers passed.
She would rather have had him more sorry, she thought, and then was deeply
repentant within herself for daring to be so selfish as to wish her own son to be unhappy.
He conveyed the impression of being a blend of
repentant sinner and hardy Norseman.
I heard, with pity and compassion, the
repentant man devise a thousand little plans for her comfort and support when he returned; but I knew that many months before he could reach his place of destination, his mother would be no longer of this world.
She ran to him and held him close, crying, with
repentant tears, "Oh, John, my dear, kind, hard-working boy.
"Then may God receive you, a repentant sinner," she said.
"Ay," he answered, his deep voice as a response to her thin one, "may God receive me, a repentant sinner."
He also stressed the need for a wholesome approach to tackling insurgency including addressing the root causing and dialoguing with
repentant terrorists.