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  • Her nature prevented her from forgiving her offspring, but she loved Fleta, and hoped that some legitimate avenue of for - giveness would develop.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • I think it was on some ones talking about for giveness. anyway I injoyed your story about the lady. and it is hard for some people to see past a handy cap to the person.

    Boats Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • It's all just a little rust under the vehicle of the raw giveness of being alive and the reality of evolution.

    Is social/psychological politics killing our natural human species? 2008

  • It's wacko, it means absolutely, absolutely nothing, but because YOU take it seriously, you think everything else in life is similar, so you populate giveness with things, like what I'm supposed to be, which I'm not, since I'm not even an I.

    the bottlE 2006

  • Sir Charles forgot not to commend Laura to for-giveness and favour.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • And she says, that Lady Olivia is grieved on the remembrance of it; and arraigns herself and her wicked passion; and the more, for his noble for-giveness of her on the spot, and recommending her afterwards to the civilities of his sisters, and their lords.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Her nature prevented her from forgiving her offspring, but she loved Fleta, and hoped that some legitimate avenue of for - giveness would develop.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • And I feared that thou wouldst die before ever I had chance to beg the for - giveness I deserved not" "

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • As in Schleiermacher, God here is only barely intentional and so hardly personal; nor, as the immanent ground of all we are and do, do we “en - counter” him as judge over against us and as for - giveness towards us in quite the same way as in neo - orthodoxy.

    IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

  • Such things sometimes happen, but it would be better if you went afterward and asked for - giveness and buried your grievances out of sight.

    The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

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