This scandal was one of the most spectacular "own goals" in the history of religion, and there seem to be no need to deride faith at its most vulnerable and self-abased. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This scandal was one of the most spectacular "own goals" in the history of religion, and there seemed to be no need to deride faith at its most vulnerable and self-abased. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For human nature, considered in itself, strives against them as much as it can (see III. xiii., liv.); hence those, who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When sober, he was self-abased by the knowledge of the suffering of this woman he so truly loved, or was restlessly striving against desires which only alcohol could sate; while she was alternately fearing the debauch or fighting to keep her respect and love intact through the debauchery. ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)
Josephine's honest heart swelled with the humble gratitude of the self-abased. ❋ Various (N/A)
The boy watching him, seeing the hero self-abased, hearing his heartbreaking sobs, interpreted very differently those sounds. ❋ Horace Annesley Vachell (1908)
Follow this little victim of nursery malpractice through the imitative age, and you will discover in him the cigarette smoker, the tippler, the self-abased youth, and later, the man whose life is shadowed with the curse of baneful appetite. ❋ Martha Meir Allen (1890)
"Well, are you well married now, babes?" said the Advocate, and I tried to answer him as we made our way to the vestry -- I stumbling and self-abased, Irma with the certainty and calmness of a widow at least thrice removed from the first bashfulness of a bride. ❋ Unknown (1887)
This humble, self-abased figure – the utter air of self-abnegation with which the domestic seemed to intimate that, unless her mistress pleased, tea was not ready, and that everything in creation was to be either ready or not ready according to her sovereign will and good pleasure – was to us children a new lesson in decorum. ❋ Unknown (1869)
No man rightly uses God's law who is not convinced by it of his sin, and impelled to that self-abased sorrow of which the rent royal robes were the passionate expression. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Before their king-belted prince, they stood rope-girdled like self-abased monks of ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
_ If I may be allowed the metaphor, one partakes of the nature of redemptive power; the other of that self-abased and degenerate will, which ❋ John Brown (1846)
The boy himself was next laid at the feet of her supposed rival, and well might the self-abased wife of the ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
"And handsome, too, I fear," returned the meek and self-abased guide; ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
"Oh! I deceived his noble nature, and dearly have I paid the penalty!" exclaimed the self-abased widow. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
Beside, Barton admitted that he saw in the behaviour of De Vallance more of the apprehensions of timorous guilt than the renovated spirit of self-abased contrition. ❋ Jane West (1805)
Unworthy as I am, I have found it by experience, that the more I see of the greatness and goodness of God, and the nearer union I hope I have had with Him through the Spirit of his love, the more humble and self-abased I have been. ❋ Legh Richmond (1799)
In the other, there was a grossness at once shocking to delicacy -- an evident gusto and guilty pleasure which the speaker took in it -- it reflected the impure passions of his own heart, and had a brightness of coloring imparted to it by a polluted imagination -- the mysterious sympathies of depraved nature were awakened -- and virtue felt the infusion of poisonous contagion, and was self-abased and insulted, as we should be by the ruffian who cast dirt upon our clean and spotless garments. ❋ Unknown (1839)
"So quiet, so self-abased, as if she would not for the world attract one glance that might be claimed by her elder sister, who is perfectly willing to be a monopolist of attention. ❋ Linn Boyd Porter (1883)
