In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. From LearnThat.org. [George Orwell, Source: 1984, 1948]
Each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement- H.L.Menchken. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Admit what you don't know (self-abasement is not attractive, by the way) and listen to the information you are given. From Wordnik.com. [DISABILITY 101: SOME GUIDELINES] Reference
His abasement was His glorification; His crown of thorns, a heavenly diadem. From Wordnik.com. [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] Reference
I was heartily ashamed of myself, and mingled with my abasement was a great relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in Lower Ten] Reference
But the abasement is the action of My friends who connect themselves with Us and follow the devil in their actions. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveler’s Narrative] Reference
I may now safely say, that humility essentially consists in self-abasement, which is self-degradation, or a voluntary sinking not only be - low others, but below ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice] Reference
This abasement is necessary for. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_] Reference
If I was the pearl of price, you have adorned her with it -- my abasement is her glory! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
9 that his abasement was the result of his voluntary choice; and that the object of his mission was, to purify, not his own, but the sins of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Trevannion's mind marvelled at the seeming abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
But the abasement of this irresolute prince was not yet complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The emotions themselves of self-satisfaction and abasement are of. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Yet it must be noted, in passing, that the studied abasement of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
These dark days of abasement were pierced by one ray of sunlight; the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Hungarians, were the only people, perhaps, who, in the abasement of all. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So deep was the abasement to which the great name of Sparta had now sunk. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
The poor pariah contemplated her in her abasement from an eminence of pity. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Gualtier bowed with a deprecatory air, and hung his head in deep abasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Something in his abasement disgusts the girl, instead of creating pity in her breast. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Again her answer, in the utter falseness to all truth of its abasement, well-nigh sickens the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Our abasement abases them; our falls drag them down; we owe to them to stand fast, to save them from falling. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Always the "Emperor" serves as a sort of historical barometer by which to measure the abasement of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The girl was always on guard; he could make no apology; he could hope from no self-abasement to win her faith. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
It would make his abasement more complete and lasting in effect, he said, if some one else were to know about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
That country has resources and energy sufficient to free itself from the ruin and abasement into which the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Such were my reflections now; and, in my abasement and craving for "the one good thing," I thought of the kind vicar. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
In his deep abasement he rested his wants upon his companion so that he might present them in a more acceptable manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
"Oh don't! please don't talk like that!" said Rose, Tom's utter self-abasement and humility rousing all her better nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Nevertheless, but for that short hour of abasement nobly and humbly retrieved, the general judgment would probably be altogether different. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
They went out incensed, but with such a mixed feeling of anger, chagrin, self-abasement, and apprehension as they had never experienced before. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedge of Gold] Reference
He stuttered so horribly that the boys would have had to laugh if it had not been for the tragedy of the wretched creature groveling in such abasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize] Reference
On the contrary, he was blaming himself, little as he deserved it, for the circumstances which had brought Angelica to this bitter moment of self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The Bedfords are in extraordinary good humour; that elevation of spirit does them no more credit than their precedent abasement; the equus animus seems a stranger to them. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
Much to Mary's sorrow she was still a heathen, and a very zealous one, as she sacrificed daily to the spirits in the crudest way, with food and blood, in abasement and fear. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
One of the sweetest strains in her song of salvation is that evoked by the memory of her resurrection from misery and abasement to a position of honor among the children of men. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
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