And Charlotte and the Prince are abjectly innocent--?
To be so abjectly innocent--that IS to be victims of fate.
Amerigo was at any rate having the sensation of a particular ugliness to avoid, a particular difficulty to count with, that practically found him as unprepared as if he had been, like his wife, an abjectly simple person.
How good, how awfully, abjectly good, she could be if she had him--the only man who had never made love to her!
Either the fear of risking a new idea, or the hope that the old ones have not become too abjectly ancient, has kept them in the one groove.
They clearly saw the complete delusion of the common assertions that the more millionaires there are in a country the more paupers will multiply, and that society is dividing between the enormously rich and the abjectly poor.
And yet even death, in which we seem to be abjectly passive, and by which so many of us are dragged away reluctantly from everything that we care to possess, may become a matter of consent and therefore a moral act.
The churches were the pensioners of the rich and well-to-do tenth of the people, and abjectly dependent on them for the means of carrying on and extending their work.
Nor did he sooner see the hoy approaching the vessel, than he ran down again into the cabin, and, his rage being perfectly subsided, he tumbled on his knees, and a little too abjectly implored for mercy.
There is not much variety in these hymns to 'Jem of Aberdovey' or 'Kate of Aberdare, and the prevailing tone is abjectly sentimental.
In this abjectly thankful mood was Fritzing when he found his worst agonies were done.
I must apologize abjectly to Fenie for my shameful suspicion that she had been engaged in a flirtation with you.
But what if a wife's helplessness be aggravated by the reflection that she has abjectly solicited her wretched fate?
Following the plow and the old gray mare through the fields with the dog skulking abjectly at his heels, he would think of that thing which he had done that had ostracized him from the rest of humanity.
Now the Abbot, though it will scarcely be believed, was, in spite of his turbulent wickedness, a most abjectly superstitious man, as indeed most ignorant and wicked people are.
Are we not abjectly ground down--a subject race, and serfs of a braver people?
Nor did he sooner see the hoy approaching the vessel than he ran down again into the cabin, and, his rage being perfectly subsided, he tumbled on his knees, and a little too abjectlyimplored for mercy.
And again the captain stammered, but Bell stared at him haughtily, and he knelt abjectly before the ship's safe.
They fawned abjectly upon Bell, because he was of os gentes and so presumably was empowered, as The Master had empowered his more intelligent subjects, to exact the most degraded of submission from all beneath him in the horrible conspiracy.
But the whole power of The Master was based on his slaves' belief that as long as they obeyed him abjectly there would be no failure of the antidote's supply.
Besides I doubt very much if you could have wrung the neck of anybody so abjectly penitent as Jevons was that evening.
I remember saying quite abjectly that I was sorry--that I was only trying to turn her mind to other things as a relief.
And if there is a more abjectly awful feeling than that the Other Girl pities you, nobody has discovered it yet.
He was abjectly devoted to Gail, but it did seem that devotion had its limits, when it came to following her to somebody else's house.
Antonius, Decimus Brutus attempted to make his escape into Macedonia to Marcus Brutus; but he was overtaken in the Alps by the cavalry of Antonius, and put to death after abjectly praying for mercy.
He had abjectly humbled himself before Cæsar, who treated him with kind respect.
Alfred became suffused with blushes, and commenced to apologise abjectly and profusely to a girl who had heard neither the word nor its atonement.
He had begged abjectly from the pain of a cuff on the ear; now he merely glanced over his shoulder toward the safety that lay beyond.
In a moment 'Emperor' dropped to the ground, and crouched abjectly at her feet, breathing heavily and trembling in every limb.
I glanced at the old earl, abjectly pulling at his white whiskers while he listened anxiously to what were evidently money schemes propounded by Lucio.
And the vast swarms of the common people in the East are the passive followers of this high caste of thinkers, abjectly accepting what they teach.
Being thus wrought out and animated by them, who were the sole depositaries of learning and the undisputed lords of thought, the mass of the people, lying abjectly in the fetters of authority, could not help accepting it.
Her mood had changed meanwhile; she was abjectly miserable and woebegone.
He was too abjectly scared to make more than the merest show of resistance.
He embarked amid a tempest of groans and hootings so full of execration that he trembled lest he should be torn to pieces by the mob, and abjectly entreated the protection of his guards.
Do we find substantive virtues adorn those who most abjectly submit themselves to all the follies of superstition?
