Our heads, shoulders, and hands were penitentially kissed, and presently the fellows returned to bind up their hurts in dirty rags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Beck has followed up 1999's electro-manic "Midnite Vultures" with a return to gloomy acoustic mode (just as he followed his antic breakthrough "Odelay" with the penitentially somber "Mutations").    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Arts Preview: Music] Reference

Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with a thoughtful aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property, — much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

Shuffling penitentially on your knees, bending and scraping with dustpan and brush while vicious pine needles perforate your kneecaps...it's almost enough to make you feel like Christmas might, in a twisted way, be the descendent of some sort of primitive religious festival.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Binge Must Come the Purge] Reference

At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Dalloway] Reference

I carry the banner aforesaid; verily and penitentially I do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

She pointed penitentially to a sheet of figures lying on the study table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Connie] Reference

I think if I were you, I would not take the matter too seriously and penitentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Mr. Hepburn penitentially knelt to pick up the fragments, and Westlake murmured over his head: 'As long as it is we who are the cracked.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paxety Pages] Reference

They came, humbly and penitentially demanding pardon for their unconscious aggression of the squire's carriage, and entreating their captain's instant advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

The only sounds were the low, wailing notes of the organ, accompanied at intervals by the muffled thump of fanatic worshipers penitentially beating their breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Robe] Reference

This low room, four by seven feet, with a narrow bed penitentially hard, a stationary wash-basin, a row of iron clothes-hooks, a foot-high oblong window above her head -- what was it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference

Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

Fraught with this prudential policy, Mauleverer then resigned Lucy to her father, and murmuring in her ear that "her displeasure made him the most wretched of men," concluded his adieu by a bow penitentially graceful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

He would talk to THAT by the hour together, -- praise it, scold it, coax it, nay (for such is man, even the most guileless), he had been known to swear at it; but for that excess he was always penitentially remorseful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zanoni] Reference

I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but, I rather think they were displayed as articles of property - much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations]

I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property, -- much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but, I rather think they were displayed as articles of property -- much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Expectations] Reference

During an official visit to Rome in 1510 he was almost overwhelmed with sorrow because of the moral corruption there; but while penitentially ascending on his knees the sacred stairs of the Lateran, he seemed to hear a voice thundering in his soul, "The just shall live by faith!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revelation Explained] Reference

"It was I," pursued Lady Tonbridge, penitentially, -- "who saddled him with that woman -- and I know he never forgave me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delia Blanchflower] Reference

Ingrid Rowland replies: I stand corrected, though I would rather be imagined penitentially posing ” like the Alberto Vargas girls I had in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Titian's Women'] Reference

SOPHY (penitentially).    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Norma said, penitentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beloved Woman] Reference

Polly blinked at him penitentially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference