And yet the author confesses that it is as difficult to define their nature as are the eight impossible things which are recounted there.
The edict of 1540 confesses as much while providing new and sterner penalties against those who even interceded for heretics.
Item confesses that she made a covenant with him, and he promised that she wold not want meines eneugh and she promised to serve him and that he gave her a new name saying I baptise the Mary.
He confesses that he would have gone to Ceuta before writing the Chronica de D.
As he confesses in the Essay on 'Books,' his learning is second hand; but everything sticks which his mind can appropriate.
And yet, he confesses that the scholars of this country have not fulfilled the reasonable expectation of mankind.
He confesses that he heard the voice of Jehovah and was afraid.
She confesses indeed that she had eaten the fruit, but she says, The serpent, which thou createdst and which thou permittedst to go about in paradise, imposed upon me.
The holy church throughout the world, O Lord, confesses thee-- That thou eternal Father art Of boundless majesty.
All that he cares for in history, as he himself confesses in his Chronique du Règne de Charles IX.
He unburdens his heart to intimate friends, confesses to them the sadness and the doubts induced in him by the hard battle of life.
Petrarch confesses that he had given up trying to civilise this rustic, this "magna bellua.
The idea of the work was, as he confesses in the proem suggested to him by Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus.
Boccaccio is not writing of these events, he does not propose to give an account of them; he confesses in the most sincere fashion that he does not rightly know what the words Guelf and Ghibelline originally implied.
The present writer confesses in all humility that he has not the least idea as to what the eloquent gentleman meant.
Although he confessesthe prevalence of the tradition, he asserts, that Procopius was the first who had committed it to writing.
Footnote 31: After a modest appeal to the examples of his brethren, Virgil and Horace, Sidonius honestly confesses the debt, and promises payment.
Thus Rousseau confesses the fatal error, and indicates the right principle.
The greatest of English writers on agriculture was born in 1741, and began farming early; but, as he confesses himself, was a complete failure.
In his well-known Tours he often had much difficulty in obtaining information, and confesses that he was forced to make more than one farmer drunk before he got anything out of him.
His desire to be a well-known man now began to receive some gratification and he frankly confesses his pleasure at having such men as Johnson, Hume and Franklin dining with him at his chambers.
Further, secret discipleship misses the fulness of blessing which comes to him who confesses Christ before men.
It is he who believes with his heart and confesses with his mouth, who has promise of salvation.
And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother.
Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he confesses in the Diary: "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before.
In the villages, at least, nearly every one confesses and partakes of the communion many times in the year; at Easter there are practically no abstentions from the sacrament.
Tom confesses himself at this time "a complete idle, good for nothing fellow," but he disarms his mother's reproaches when he adds that he is chiefly occupied in thinking of her and of his large estate in Canada where he longs to be.
Lightfoot confesses that what he says cannot be received as based on "any historical tradition or critical investigation.
And though the Psalmist says that such persons will come to a sudden and fearful end, yet he confesses that so long as they live they have prospered, while he had been punished all day long, and chastened every morning.
The man who frankly confesses that he does not quite know why he comes to church is most likely to know at last why he does come; most likely to understand the answer which Scripture gives to the question why we come to church.
The unhappy woman has waked up to the absurdity and inanity of her blind passion; she confesses to herself that she is madly pursuing a phantom.
But my wife confesses she is guilty," he stammered.
The loser disguises himself as a priest and confesses the princess when she is ill, and makes her give back the objects she has won or stolen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
