There he remained, weeping indignantly at her stream of obloquy, bitterly ashamed of his tears, until it was time for supper. From LearnThat.org. [Jonathan Keates Stendhal.]
He has rivalled in obloquy Marx himself, with the additional effect of being a much more nearly present danger. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Policy and the Liberal Left] Reference
He shrugged his shoulders as if the obloquy were a tangible load that could be shifted. From Wordnik.com. [Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life] Reference
Envy, too, has had its share in the obloquy which is cast upon this office. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference
Indeed, Purochana careth little for obloquy or sin. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
King's side, and covering the Queen and her friends with obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Randolph, appointed in his place, resigned in a cloud of obloquy on. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
But comparison with a bean involves no obloquy, but rather panegyric. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01] Reference
There would, too, be a certain amount of obloquy and gossip to be faced. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
KEAN'S fleeing from 'the hot pursuit of obloquy' is exceedingly vivid; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
He thought no more of him, and we were set up as a mark of every kind of obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
We heap upon them moral obloquy more atrocious than that which the master heaps upon the slave. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
They rested, but in this rest there was action which has covered them with obloquy for all time. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
They nerved the humble artisan to patience and to the cheerful endurance of obloquy and reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
James Frencham Altar, father of Richard, did not believe in failure or exposure or public obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The persecutions instituted by our fathers have been the occasion of ceaseless obloquy upon their fame. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Cade has been handed down in obloquy, and all that he and his followers aimed at caricatured out of recognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference
Every man who wanted to curry favour with Clinton was ready to strike at Hamilton, and they covered him with obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But as his object was constantly to throw obloquy on the Bourbons, he placed his fears to the account of their treachery. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
She had not yet acquired the full flavor of that obloquy which waits upon those who outrage social conventions; scarcely a. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
But the least shade or coloring of this odious foible brings certain and indelible obloquy on the most elegant accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
But, as Sir Walter Scott has observed, he met with that obloquy which generally follows the leader of an unsuccessful enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Congress put upon the President the responsibility of making the final decision, together with whatever obloquy this would entail. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Yorktown would no more placate the popular contempt and obloquy sure to follow an avoidance of its demands than would the victory at. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
These categories were not entirely divorced, since the infraction of trade ordinances was visited with something more than mere obloquy. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
How, then, could we believe a bull, or decree, if it were put forth to-morrow, to release them from suspicion, or to screen them from obloquy?. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
It was not strange, therefore, that the little band of Free Soilers in this Congress encountered popular obloquy and social outlawry at the Capital. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
In the prosecution of these objects, he relied not in vain on God; but, in the progress, he was called to endure great obloquy and great opposition. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
Senate, that Piso, by that sort of death, had aimed to load him with obloquy; and asked many questions how he had passed his last day, how his last night?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
When malice had exhausted itself in heaping obloquy upon the name of the dead poet, it was the gentle hand of woman that first removed the odium from his memory. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
He had the courage to adhere firmly to James the Second, amid the general obloquy, and to accompany the monarch on his abdication to his embarkation at Rochester. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
The braying of bitter critics, the obloquy of men who should have supported him, the shots from behind, dismayed him no more than did Burnside's cannon at Fredericksburg. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
Mr. Allardyce spoke of the judge with the most bitter obloquy; he was a cross-grained, dried-up old mummy, said the squire, without a drop of good red blood in his veins. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
"Like yourself I was curious to see a nation who seemed determined to court their own shame, and to deify the being whose career is signally marked by obloquy and disaster.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
They heap "obloquy" upon us and they seek to discover crass motives behind our benevolent actions. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
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