Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, […]

The first change of regime came with the release of my more difficult mathematical, empirical, and scholarly work in a dozen articles in a variety of journals in an attempt to expiate my crime of having sold too many books.

He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.

And when it was required of him by the rigid laws of a haphazard justice, which in retrospect seems like every night of the week, he pressed his limp forelock into a filthy washbasin, clutched a tap in each throbbing hand, and expiated a string of crimes he didn't know he had committed until they were thoughtfully explained to him between each stroke by Mr. Willow or his representatives.

[…] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.

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