All this was very indiscreet. Hilda, in an impenitent sort of way, felt it to be so.英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
"'Now, may the curse of the forty-one seven-sided sea cooks,' says I, 'and the bad luck of the nine impenitent grasshoppers rest upon this self-same sideshow at once and forever more. I'll go to see it myself to-morrow night and investigate its baleful charm. Shall man that was made to inherit the earth be bereft of his sweetheart first by a knife and fork and then by a ten-cent circus?'英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
Yes, and I believe England in her dumb way remembers that too. And "the Traitor Peel" can very well afford to let innumerable Ducal Costermongers, parliamentary Adventurers, and lineal representatives of the Impenitent Thief, say all their say about him, and do all their do. With a virtual England at his back, and an actual eternal sky above him, there is not much in the total net-amount of that. When the master of the horse rides abroad, many dogs in the village bark; but he pursues his journey all the same.英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
CHORUS
Yea, king, this instant. Vengeance of the gods
Is swift to overtake the impenitent.英文原著 · 《Oedipus the King》
She would see he had intercepted it purposely. Well, all the better. It was decided. He would not look at her face any more. He could not bear it. He rushed away from the bower and made for the seaside; but he soon returned another way, gained his own room, and there burnt the fragments of the letter to ashes. But, though he was impenitent, remorse was not subdued. He could not look Grace Carden in the face now.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
He covered his face with his hand as she told her story. This she did in a few words, disjointed, for she was both tired and seething. For a few mo- ments afterward there was a silence; the good priest was increasingly disturbed and by no means certain of his course. He was astonished to feel a tug at his sleeve. Before he could reprove this impenitent child for audacity she had raised herself that she might approach her lips more closely to his ear.英文原著 · 《Rezanov》