In all this there is indeed enough of the pathetic, but Sandy Graff in his utter and complete abasement was even more deeply, tragically sunken than they.
Sandy had been too long accustomed to self-abasement in the world he had left to question the authority of the man who spoke to him.
The policy of Richelieu has been achieved in the abasement of Austria; the policy of Napoleon I.
And yet this self-abasement is exceedingly mistaken.
The Indian, in whose manner the depression of self-abasement was most powerfully exhibited, listened to the offers of the Judge with an interest that increased with each syllable.
But, not withstanding the divine fixed his eyes intently on the Indian when he invited his congregation to advance to the table, the shame of last night’s abasement was yet too keen in the old chief to suffer him to move.
These are the things that turn the human heart To vanity, which should collect itself In penitence; for a lewd, vicious life, Want and abasement are the only penance.
And the Fates my still deeper abasement decreeing, Her offspring Hermione brought into being, And the bliss once mine own can ne'er glad me again!
I'll give you facts, but don't ask self-abasement put into words.
This realization of her beauty's attraction at that moment struck him with a sense of abasement before her.
This art of self-abasement for future exaltation is one which it is given only to few to carry to perfection, but no woman is really charming without it.
They were put forth in behalf of what he regarded as truth; and the success which they met with, while it called into exercise his profoundest gratitude, only served to deepen the humility and self-abasement of their author.
Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.
The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
In our deepest abasement we may take courage anew when we think of that wondrous blending of anger shot with pity.
Yet, though undoubtedly due to it in part, there was also genuine humility in his love for Sophy--that romantic abasement of self which makes a man find a subtle pleasure in the realisation of his own unworthiness.
Yes, at times, so great was his suffering over his own abasement that he had frequently thought of self-destruction as a means of escape from the dark coil.
She had never been near the place: for long years it had been let to strangers, and after that the foreboding that it would be her doom had kept her from the abasement of it.
At each moment of special abasement there is some special coruscation of the brightness of His glory.
Again, the exalted consciousness which accompanied His self-abasement is made prominent in the words, 'Knowing that the Father had given all things into His hand, and that He was come from God and went to God.
I have not the courage to pursue this history, and describe the Latins in the extremes of their abasement and misery.
We had been kept in abasement and made to feel our inferiority in social intercourse.
Women are ready to rise to the heights of devotion unattainable by us men, or to sink into the depths of abasement which amazes our masculine prejudices.
She didn't even figure it or picture it to herself; her grief and shame and utter abasement were too profound for mind to fathom.
In the midst of the deepest self-abasement his heart was overflowing with joy.
Now that he had distinguished himself and had been wounded in the cause, the thing might be done without dishonour, but it would involve a species of self-abasement to which he was not prepared to submit.
There is in abasement a spurious appearance of piety and religion.
Self--abasement is thinking too meanly of one's self by reason of pain.
Although abasement is the opposite to pride, yet is he that abases himself most akin to the proud (IV.
But the abasement of this irresolute prince was not yet complete.
Yet it must be noted, in passing, that the studied abasement of the Tiers État had already begun to bear some fruit that should have alarmed every patriotic heart.
During this period of antagonism to Rome the University of Paris had contributed no little to the abasement of the Inquisition by supplanting it as an investigator of doctrine and judge of heresy.
The sting was a nearer one; it was his own present of fair example and good repute that recoiled with a fastidious sense of abasement from the recollection.
He was desperately anxious to get away--his thought was a snarl of tatters, threaded by one lucid purpose: to spare her coming self-abasement this sardonic humiliation.
