The dean was apt to abash Josh for his antics.    From LearnThat.org. 

He is, further, a young man whom nothing can abash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

The influences of the place would abash their contumacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

You must find those ADULTS to expect the abash these themes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking Up Is Not BreakingAway: The Pseudo-Empowerment of Kelly Clarkson | PopPolitics.com] Reference

He was not an easy young man to abash, and harder still to silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

You quite abash me by your progress in notting, for I am still without silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

I had not known before that you were trying somehow to abash me I should know it now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference

"Of imposture!" cried Lady Devine, all her outraged maternity nerving her to abash her enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

“Nothing in the world can abash me now,” I thought as I wandered carelessly about the salon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childhood] Reference

They manipulated our beliefs, staging miracles and eclipses, spectacles to abash us and keep us malleable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

He did not abash me by causelesly laying my disorder on his story, and by offering to discontinue or postpone it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

It took a great deal to abash a mind like Hazlet's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Home] Reference

The presence of the strangers did not abash her in the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack 1877] Reference

But his was not the nature any earthly dread could long abash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference

It is impossible to outface Milton, or to abash him with praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

It seemed to abash the ruffian, in spite of his habitual effrontery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manon Lescaut] Reference

Remember that the pupil does not always permanently abash his teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

It is quite an informal little gathering, with nothing to abash even Mr.Kenyon. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Intervenes] Reference

And yet, what other course had I to take with a man whom no denial, no scorn could abash?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amelia — Complete] Reference

To each he made some apt reply, for even the priestesses of Baaltis could not abash Metem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elissa] Reference

The coarseness she heard from certain of her companions did not abash her, but this word of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

Chaplain's mettle; and to abash him Bennett had marched step by step with the men that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

"Nothing in the world can abash me now," I thought as I wandered carelessly about the salon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childhood] Reference

When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: for that would abash him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference

Josephine and her daughters, whose presence seemed at first to abash my warriors of the torch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opinions of a Philosopher] Reference

A desire to abash vice, advance the virtuous, and promote the good of mankind, were my motives! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

Still, it was quite possible, even probable, that he was an American; so that omission did not abash me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Island] Reference

When the Genoways were assembled together and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference

For some moments he gazed into their sweet depths, and their courage, their steadfastness, seemed to abash him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forfeit] Reference

The young lady looked rather astonished, and not over well pleased, but this did not in any way abash Mr Glover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War] Reference

But that did not abash me; I laughed with them, applied to my dictionary, which I carried with me, and chatted on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visit to Iceland] Reference

How strong and pure the fire in her must be when her father's presence could not abash her from this betrayal of her love!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Instance] Reference