She used to talk with the most utter self-abasement before me. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
The Haluk scientist made the gesture signifying self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Is there no limit to the Republicans 'appetite for self-abasement?. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Richards: Rush to Appeasement] Reference
He just helped me find myself under a shitload of guilt and self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [badger Diary Entry] Reference
Two years of prison had not broken him down to this point of self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
The thought made her face burn, brought a sense of miserable self-abasement to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
With what deep self-abasement and reverence does Abraham enter upon his high and divine work!. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon of Prayer] Reference
After his departure, she repents for seven days with fasting and self-abasement (JosAs 9 – 11). From Wordnik.com. [Asenath: Bible.] Reference
His original natural defilement was that which, in the first place, influenced him unto self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
‘The beginning of faith,’ pursued Sophie, nothing daunted, ‘is self-abasement ... humiliation.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
Wherefore, in the deepest self-abasement and abhorrence, he betakes himself unto sovereign grace and mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] 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
Such are repentance, humiliation, godly sorrow, self-abasement and abhorrency, with fervent outcries for deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
It swelled and swelled until all the loss, all the grief, all the loneliness and self-abasement of her life washed away. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
"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
He felt almost afraid to form a conjecture on the weather, or the time, or the fruit-promise, so great was his self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Those who have lowest thoughts of themselves, and are most filled with self-abasement, have the clearest views of divine glory. From Wordnik.com. [Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God���s Elect] Reference
If Mr. Naipaul's supposed self-abasement is going to really hurt, isn't it necessary for there to be someone else to lay on the whip?. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Behind the Man of Letters] Reference
And seeing the irascible ascetic arrived, Duryodhana and his brothers welcomed him with great humility, self-abasement and gentleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It seems I had no “dévouement,” no “récueillement” in my character; no spirit of grace, faith, sacrifice, or self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell to America's China Station] Reference
And now there comes a stanza of haunting beauty, the ethic creed set to music, a pathetic pleading, a self-abasement, in the presence of the. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
And he believed the things it was ordained that he should believe, and he bowed his head in prayer with tears of penitence and self-abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
When he had displayed these signs of ruin and self-abasement his creditors would not sue him, but he would never be able to borrow money again. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] 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
All that saved me from utter self-abasement was the fact that it had occurred at a time when I was at such a low ebb physically, by reason of illness. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
He liked to see Henson's modest smirk and beautiful self-abasement, for in sooth his lordship had a pretty contempt for the man who hoped to succeed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] 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
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