shrived

His soul was shrived from the husk that once housed his humanity by the heavy hand of time and whithered to memory dust damn near eight decades ago.

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We are not like the Republicans when Teddy Roosevelt shrived off the Bull Moose Party.

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"That's everything since Patera Silk shrived me, like I said,"

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

"That's everything since Patera Silk shrived me, like I said,"

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

Silk saw the heavy wooden chair from which he had shriven Auk and beside which he had knelt when Auk shrived him.

Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

I should never have spoken love to you at all, or if I did, I should have told you of the blight upon it; but the sky and the trees and the hill were clothed that night in the beauty that wrapt my soul and I thought that God had forgotten and had shrived me in the same sacred light.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

Patience and the butt in time revealed him the best fish of the day, and I heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on a rock for breath when the gaff lifted him out, the priest shrived him, and the balance stood at 20 1/2 lb.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

He had retired amongst these ruins of transitory greatness to warn his fellow-creatures against carnal passions, prayed for the dead and shrived the living.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

Well, stay with me at least, and if it is twelve years since you shrived me at first, perhaps you shall shrive me at last, -- for I doubt if I am ever brought out to this sunshine again, if I do not die in the prison-damps to-night, -- and you, with all your change, are Father Anshmo, I think.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

And when Earl Godrich had so sworn, the King shrived him clean of all his sins.

Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various