Nevertheless she found joy in the uncongenial and ill-performed task—the cold, fierce joy of the nun in her penance.
Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works.
If they had missed going to mass, or read a chapter of a novel, that was another thing: these were crimes whereof rebuke and penance were the unfailing weed.
Heathcliff pleasure; whatever reason he may have for ordering Linton to undergo this penance.
Not an easy penance, by any means, for the board was very hard, and she could do nothing while she lay there, as it did not slope enough to permit her to read without great fatigue of both eyes and hands.
Ought she to shrink in this way from the long penance of life, which was all the possibility she had of lightening the load to some other sufferers, and so changing that passionate error into a new force of unselfish human love?
Youth and health have withstood well the involuntary and voluntary hardships of her lot, and the nights in which she has lain on the hard floor for a penance have left no obvious trace; the eyes are liquid, the brown cheek is firm and round, the full lips are red.
She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.
I'd do penance for being wicked that way.
Churchgoers who attend confession are often asked to repeat the prayer as penance for sins.
The idea is that you have to do a penance almost, for years.
think not my penance deficient!
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) But penance need not be paid in suffering.
This only we may say, that it cost us each our right eye, and has imposed upon us our nightly penance.
Ah, if thou couldst but tell me how I can have offended him, that I might do penance, and thenmy heart also would be glad again.
