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A wrong unrepented of and unatoned gathers interest, instead of getting discount, from lost time.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned
My Father's House 1982
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The heir of two centuries of unatoned insult and outrage looked down on him and seemed to drink in deep draughts of satisfaction.
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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Thorbiorn, Vakr, and that brother of his slain by Olaf should continue unatoned for, because they were evildoers, and fell in an unrighteous quarrel of their own seeking; moreover, the slaying of Howard's serving-man cancelled one wergild; there remained, therefore, but one wergild for
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Then Flosi spurned the money, and said he would not touch a penny of it, and then he said he would only have one of two things: either that Hauskuld should fall unatoned, or they would have vengeance for him.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Revenge for an unatoned wrong is a stern, fundamental, eternal law, sanctioned by Manóbo institutions, social, political, and religious; one that is consecrated by the breath of the dying, and passed on from generation to generation to be fulfilled; but it has one saving clause, _arbitration_.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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"I will not," she says, "I should like it better that Kol were unatoned."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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If I am to go at his side to stand before King Marke, I cannot do so with propriety unless I first receive expiation for guilt yet unatoned.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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"Ill is that then," says Hauskuld, "for I would rather fall unatoned, than that many should reap ill for my sake."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Hallgerda often put him in mind of it, and kept saying that Sigmund had fallen unatoned.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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