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  • Next day these two Bodies being found thus fastned together, were soon known, Officers of Justice came to search the House, examine, and apprehend the Family; But the miserable Lady, soon confess'd and told the

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Governante, committed her into the Hands of Justice, upon which her Process was made, and she confess'd the whole Fact, succinctly, just as as the young Gentlewoman had told the Capuchins; so she had the Reward of her Sorcery, at a Stake where she was burnt alive; and is upon record, a miserable Example, of the extreamest Wickedness.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Next day these two Bodies being found thus fastned together, were soon known, Officers of Justice came to search the House, examine, and apprehend the Family; But the miserable Lady, soon confess'd and told the

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Governante, committed her into the Hands of Justice, upon which her Process was made, and she confess'd the whole Fact, succinctly, just as as the young Gentlewoman had told the Capuchins; so she had the Reward of her Sorcery, at a Stake where she was burnt alive; and is upon record, a miserable Example, of the extreamest Wickedness.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • She, poor old Woman, immediately confess'd the whole Matter, alledging for her Excuse, that it was the Effect of her mistaken Zeal, believing it to be the Will of the Gods, according to the Interpretation of her Son the High − Priest.

    Exilius 2008

  • I have confess'd to the World I am a _Knight_ (nor am I asham'd to own it, tho ''tis a Condescension as Knighthood goes;) and my Name is _John

    The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

  • It is confess'd on all hands, that we live in a sad degenerate Age, and though some have suggested other causes of our horrid Declension, yet most considering People have the fairness to own, that the _Stage_ has gon furthest in running us down to this low and almost Brutal condition; nor will there remain much question of this, if we can but agree what _Corruption_ is.

    A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

  • Pharisaical Inventions and Traditions: So must it also be confess'd, that the Christian Religion was much more perfect in the Days of the

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

  • I confess'd I had indulged myself very freely with

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • _Knight-Errantry_, and ingenuously confess'd his _Family Name_.

    The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe

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