"Amends" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their States on the question as indicated by their Legislatures and platforms, Congress would have sent the amendment to the 1919 Legislatures and it would have cost the States nothing. The Democratic Governor who calls a special session only makes honorable amends for the misrepresentation of members of ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... pleasure, for he knew that the kisses which she had given him from time to time had been to make amends to him, and not, as others thought, from joy over ...
— Santa Claus's Partner • Thomas Nelson Page
... as I could to him by schooling her as many years and as thoroughly as possible. I mean to keep my vow. I made it because I did his father a terrible wrong; and it was a weight on my conscience ever since that time till this scheme of making amends occurred to me through seeing ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... that even in physical science his notions of philosophizing might have recognised Kepler, but would have excluded Newton and Laplace. But I could not help feeling, that though the tone was unbecoming (an error for which the writer, at a later period, made the most ample and honourable amends), there was truth in several of his strictures on my father's treatment of the subject; that my father's premises were really too narrow, and included but a small number of the general truths on which, in politics, the important consequences ...
— Autobiography • John Stuart Mill
... he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. But, to make amends, a clear understanding was effected between him ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
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