Autobiography bits

Usage examples of confessions.

He left her at half-past ten in the morning, and after four hours spent alone together, she had been induced by his piety and gentleness to make confessions that could not be wrung from her by the threats of the judges or the fear of the question.

And probably, after Kishikawa had disgraced himself with confessions that implicated associates, they would deliver the final punishment: they would tell him that Nicholai had been dead all the time, and that he had shamed himself and involved innocent friends in vain.

In short, their proceedings are a series of confessions of helplessness, of premature declarations of failure.

You shudder, at thinking of the avowals wrested from the criminals, of the confessions broken with sobs murmured there.

The consequence of this was, so severe a whipping, that it possibly fell little short of the torture with which confessions are in some countries extorted from criminals.

Report of the question and execution on the 24th of March 1673, containing the declarations and confessions of Jean Amelin Lachaussee.