That comes from having accepted his own baseness from the very beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment] Reference
"Insolent dog!" cried he, in a loud and arrogant tone, "your baseness is your protection.". From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
For then leaving virtue, it falls into disdained baseness, which is the undoubtable badge of one that will betray society. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
And from what kind of baseness do you think a man would abstain who grudges. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
“I should not have suspected him of that kind of baseness,” said Theodore, very slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
Oh, I know your heart is noble and pure, and despises the baseness which is now the master of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
And what's the alternative except more of the same kind of baseness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Glimpses of the Moon] Reference
"I should not have suspected him of that kind of baseness," said Theodore, very slowly. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
He had the least charity for any kind of baseness and meanness, and the greatest charity for the unceasing weakness of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [My beloved South,] Reference
Whatever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by "baseness", by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
Weeps when she sees me work; and says such baseness. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
They know its baseness better than we can tell them. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Are nursed by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Leonard Rousselet is an old man incapable of such baseness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For they believe that their baseness is safety for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
You must keep your word to him -- it would be an act of baseness to break it. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
For twenty years it has stood in America the synonym of meanness and baseness. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Above all, he could not abandon her without being guilty of a kind of baseness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The more Nan thought of Delia's baseness the more she inwardly raged against it. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
But they reveal a native baseness, which will not recoil before any piece of villainy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I said to myself, "It is impossible for the least baseness to be hidden under all this.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But, for revenge, and its sweet sake, there was no baseness to which he would not stoop. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
I accepted such baseness -- that to-day you might take shelter behind the two innocents!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Never has hunger driven man to such baseness as have envy, avarice, and thirst for pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Yet I felt an inward recoil against the baseness of sitting an idle spectator of such a struggle. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
They had been scandalized by the rudeness, the baseness, and the brutishness, of rabble supremacy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
For you prayed the gods for just what you saw them doing, believing you would be saved through the baseness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
"Never," returned Maud, with sorrowful indignation upon her lovely, loyal face, "no, never will I descend to such baseness.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And finally, gentlemen of the jury, to cap all his former baseness, he dared with Adeimantus to betray the ships to Lysander. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Hence, when it comes, it brings convincing light along with it, by which a man sees more of his baseness than at other times. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
A starving little abbé volunteered for the service, and, possessing a special aptitude for baseness, succeeded in his mission. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world's vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
It is mentioned that he was of a manly and handsome appearance; but the baseness of his character is attested also by other authors. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Madeline had exposed to her the baseness of Percy, Mrs. Ralston started up, her face pale as death, and then sank back in her chair. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
The baseness and the cruelty were to remain forever unknown to the woman who no longer hesitated as to the bold resolution she had made. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If that were got rid of, what treasons would be spared, what baseness avoided, what a chain of excess and crime would be forever broken!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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