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  • In "T.S. Eliot Repents" [NYR, February 26], Charles Rosen writes that "it would be a good idea to have a complete and critical edition of all of Eliot's prose" but that such an edition "does not so far seem to be planned."

    The Complete T.S. Eliot Schuchard, Ronald 2009

  • In an article entitled “District Attorney Roosevelt Repents,” the New York Evening Post quoted the prosecutor as saying, “in the present excited condition of the public mind on the African question” he had decided to “leave the prisoners to plead guilty or not guilty on both or either of the charges against them … without any understanding or commitment on the part of the authorities either here or at Washington.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • In an article entitled “District Attorney Roosevelt Repents,” the New York Evening Post quoted the prosecutor as saying, “in the present excited condition of the public mind on the African question” he had decided to “leave the prisoners to plead guilty or not guilty on both or either of the charges against them … without any understanding or commitment on the part of the authorities either here or at Washington.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • In an article entitled “District Attorney Roosevelt Repents,” the New York Evening Post quoted the prosecutor as saying, “in the present excited condition of the public mind on the African question” he had decided to “leave the prisoners to plead guilty or not guilty on both or either of the charges against them … without any understanding or commitment on the part of the authorities either here or at Washington.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • In an article entitled “District Attorney Roosevelt Repents,” the New York Evening Post quoted the prosecutor as saying, “in the present excited condition of the public mind on the African question” he had decided to “leave the prisoners to plead guilty or not guilty on both or either of the charges against them … without any understanding or commitment on the part of the authorities either here or at Washington.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • He gets up and walks across the room and straightens a framed cover of a Rolling Stone with Elvis Costello on the cover and the words "Elvis Costello Repents" in large white letters.

    Less Than Zero Ellis, Bret Easton 1985

  • Heart of the Just God, that he came to say, _It Repents me that I have made such a Creature!

    The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches Cotton Mather 1695

  • Then hack they tread the road with pa And fearch'd through Salem; hut in v But one of thcfc, before he dy'd, J Repents the wrong, and of the Lord

    The History of the Holy Bible, as Contained in the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New ... 1778

  • He ftrait revokes his bold refolve, and more Repents his courage, than his fear before; finds that uncertain ways unfafeft are,

    The Beauties of English Poesy 1767

  • Jonah's Second Commission to Nineveh: The Ninevites Repent of Their Evil Way: So God Repents of the Evil Threatened.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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