I raised my chin, until then tucked down in abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
The tone was puzzled rather tan harsh, yet Elsie shrank back in sudden abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Polly of the Hospital Staff] Reference
Her mouth foamed with abashment--she spoke, she didn't speak: ecstasies of impossible love. From Wordnik.com. ["Bone Women" by Eliot Fintushel] Reference
And, O tiger among men, Duryodhana was filled with delight, while Vibhatsu was instantly all abashment and anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
She raised her eyes with a half-smile of abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Don't hide, don't be abashment to express your feelings. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
In some new sort of half-abashment she found no immediate reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Purchase Price] Reference
On her countenance there was visible neither abashment nor pride. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
And Hassan hung his head in abashment before the King and his father. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
She could not hide it, with her hands prisoners; she sat in a pretty state of abashment. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
And much to my abashment he and the old man fell upon my neck and kissed me on both cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
Mr. Garland accepted the introduction with signs of abashment, but stated his business simply. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
Without the slightest abashment, but rather as a superior, the King looked down at the young Sultan. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
The hot blood mounted to the boy's cheek, whether in abashment or in anger would be impossible to say. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon] Reference
Beneath the merciless scrutiny of those forty pairs of eyes I seemed to touch the very bottom of abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
His small, blue eyes, bathed in the moisture of altruism and wooziness, looked upon you kindly, yet without abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Her strength was answering now to the demand upon it; his utter abashment before her could not but help her to calmness. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
One of those at bay, familiar with this strange abashment, seized the moment, but at his motion the sheriff screamed: "Look out!". From Wordnik.com. [Pardners] Reference
At once he fixed his gaze on her, and did not remove it until her temples throbbed and she cast down her eyes in helpless abashment. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
"I've come to apologize to you," he said to Fraser, who grinned broadly and was seized with a sudden abashment which stilled his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Horde] Reference
She seemed another woman than the self-possessed young beauty he had met a month before on the Limited, but he found her shy abashment charming. From Wordnik.com. [Bucky O'Connor] Reference
He neither blinked nor showed the slightest abashment or hesitation as his soft eyes looked steadily into mine with all the innocence of an angel. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Astronomer] Reference
Bennietod, pale and manifestly weak, grinned cheerfully and fumbled in sudden abashment at an amazing checked Ascot which he had derived from unknown sources. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
Now at his words she started, caught her breath and stared at him wide-eyed; but, seeing his abashment, laughed and loosed off the jewel with quick, small fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
The only interest of nonvocal music, Stendhal asserted, was the "cold and unexhilarating abashment at the sight of the triumph of virtuosity over the recalcitrance of technique.". From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
It will be victory enough for me to display the jewel, and abashment enough for him to know he was wrong. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
A Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Without abashment he put his head inside Elzey’s tent and woke him with the loud query, “General, General, ain’t it about time for us to take another drink?”. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
A hasty spring at his keeper, which, to his own abashment, and the laughter of my young companions, was as suddenly checked by a small chain that secured him to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.] Reference
Mingsley mistook her long silence for abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
They held no trace of abashment. From Wordnik.com. [Never-Fail Blake] Reference
He was swept by a sudden awed abashment. From Wordnik.com. [The Net] Reference
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