Appenzelder could not help admitting this, and then dejectedly promised Barbara to make amends as soon as possible for the wrong which the regent, much against his will, had committed.
To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life.
To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends.
Defn: To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Nathalie, I loved you there below with infinite, unending grief and sorrow; make amends to me here!
But you will be able to have done with all this deception now, and to make amends for it, will you not?
To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
I am only grieved that it should have come upon you in my service; and I wish to make amends.
This last was a lie; but I wrote across to His Majesty of what a bad impression such a rumour made; and urged him to make amends--which he did very handsomely.
Those of Troneg chased their foes; they were in passing haste, who had not weened to make amends.
You cannot do anything to make amends to God," answered Mrs Herbert.
To make amends he said ingratiatingly: "This mince pie is excellent, Prissy!
I did a contemptible thing to that girl once," he continued, "and I feel that the least I can do to make amends is to refuse to allow her to be spoken of slightingly in my presence.
Tell me, Hughie--tell me quick that it isn't too late to make amends for my mistake!
To make amends, You, Lucy, shall be here when I impeach Pym and his fellows.
It's natural a poor monk out of bounds Should have his apt word to excuse himself: And hearken how I plot to make amends.
Little comradeship was mine to you on that day, and I am minded to make amends if I can.
Then he made haste to make amends if one was hurt by what he had said in haste.
It was his wish to make amends thus, if he could, for the loss his folk had caused me.
It made her less exacting and domineering at school, and the wish to make amends to Belle made her more yielding and unselfish at home.
But not quite; and she resolved to make amends to Belle in some other way.
That she was really repentant and desirous to make amends to Belle, she showed in a very decided manner when her birthday came around, as it did about three weeks after the loss of the locket.
Or if he slights not the penalty, he will seek tomake amends to it by doing of good works for the sins he has committed.
Mother'll make amends to thee for the silent meeting," said Mr. Yocomb, looking around with an impressive nod.
Thee may give Richard Morton my share," said the little girl, trying to make amends.
Already I repented of my harshness, into which I had been led by the sharpest stress of feeling, and was eager to make amends.
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