1 Seeing that he really was out of temper, Jo, who knew how to manage him, assumed a contrite expression, and going artistically down upon her knees, said meekly, "Please forgive me for being so cross."
2 As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.
3 His soul sank back deeper into depths of contrite peace, no longer able to suffer the pain of dread, and sending forth, as he sank, a faint prayer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 4 Such little actions, slight in another man, were very noticeable in him; and his daughter received them as if they had been words of contrition.
5 Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition.
6 The self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a guilty one.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 7 "Confess your sins and do penance for them in sorrow and contrition," Ellen had told her a hundred times and, in this crisis, Ellen's religious training came back and gripped her.
8 She looked at the dazed hurt faces of India and Pitty and contrition swept her.
9 I will ask you now, all of you, to repeat after me the act of contrition, kneeling here in this humble chapel in the presence of God.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 Then, raising his head, he repeated the act of contrition, phrase by phrase, with fervour.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 11 Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.