I want to make amends.
But he thought of something to make him amends.
" "And there's your mother—you'll try and make her amends, all you can, for my bad luck—and there's the little wench——" The father turned his eyes on Maggie with a still more eager look, while she, with a bursting heart, sank on her knees, to be closer to the dear, time-worn face which had been present with her through long years, as the sign of her deepest love and hardest trial.
At last he looked up at his wife and said, in a gentle tone: "Bessy, you must come and kiss me now—the lad has made you amends.
"Write as your father, Edward Tulliver, took service under John Wakem, the man as had helped to ruin him, because I'd promised my wife to make her what amends I could for her trouble, and because I wanted to die in th' old place where I was born and my father was born.
"If there's anything left as I could do to make you amends, I wouldn't say you nay.
" "Well, well," said Mr Tulliver, "if he's good to you, try and make him amends, and be good to him.
"I should like to do something for my brother's family, Nicholas; and I think we are bound to make some amends to Rosamond and her husband.
Cadwallader, rising too, and wishing to make amends.
Perhaps it is rather to Bulstrode's credit that he privately offered me compensation for an old injury: he offered to give me a good income to make amends; but I suppose you know the disagreeable story?
It was more bearable to do without tenderness for himself than to see that his own tenderness could make no amends for the lack of other things to her.
Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother.
And I don't believe in any pay to make amends for bringing a lot of ruffians to trample your crops.
Lydgate's ear had caught eagerly her mention of the living, and as soon as he could, he reopened the subject, seeing here a possibility of making amends for the casting-vote he had once given with an ill-satisfied conscience.
I feel with her, somehow, and if I could make any amends to the poor lad, instead of bearing him a grudge for the harm he did us, I should be glad to do it.
The compliment of John Thorpe's affection did not make amends for this thoughtlessness in his sister.
John Thorpe, who in the meantime had been giving orders about the horses, soon joined them, and from him she directly received the amends which were her due; for while he slightly and carelessly touched the hand of Isabella, on her he bestowed a whole scrape and half a short bow.
I was anxious to make him some amends for the great help he was to me in studying the part, and for the bad humour he was in about it.
However, to make amends he showed them how to lie out flat on a strong wind that was going their way, and this was such a pleasant change that they tried it several times and found that they could sleep thus with security.
We make a list of people we have harmed and people who have harmed us, and take steps to clear out negative energy by making amends and sharing our grievances; both in a respectful way.
