How To Use expiable In A Sentence
- Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a Saint Ronan's Well
- I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- And to impress upon me that I had done nothing inexpiable. John Gabriel Borkman
- In 1794 the ruffians, Danton and Robespierre, fell in succession, and expiated their crimes (if indeed such crimes be expiable at all) on that guillotine which they had so often deluged with the blood of innocence, even of female innocence and beauty. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France
- Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were trivialities usually expiable at the price of a boot-assisted dismissal; but this --! The Yellow Claw
- They confess that the cause why they persecuted their brother was his having dreamed; as if truly this ass an inexpiable offense; but if they are indignant at his dreams, why do they not rather wage war with God? Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
- Had he only robbed the mail-coach, or broken into a gentleman's house, the offence might have been expiable; but to rob a clergyman, and a rector too! Paul Clifford — Complete
- Recourse to the discourse of human rights allows one to distinguish inexpiable crimes from those that lie within the realm of law and redemption.
- For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt. The Sanchez Ghost
- A new Ahasuerus, cursed by inexpiable crime, yet sustained by a great purpose. Green Mansions
