At such minutes there used to be a convulsive twinge at my heart, and I used to feel hot all down my back at the mere thought of the wretchedness of my attire, of the wretchedness and abjectness of my little scurrying figure.
Every Jew bears in his blood the glory, the triumph, the misery, the abjectness of Israel.
These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.
Who letteth us or hind'reth our way, I spring on him, As springeth lynx or panther upon the frighted deer; With ruin I o'erwhelm him and abjectness and woe And cause him quaff the goblet of death and distance drear.
Leave rhyming, madman that thou art, lest, bound upon the cross, Thou thy presumption in the stead of abjectness repent.
An abjectness of heart, of which, had I been capable, I should have despised myself as much as I might have expected you would despise me.
The mystery is doubtless to be explained by their supreme abjectness and helplessness, which have been ground into them by many centuries of bondage.
To those who, like the writer, have spent a lifetime in trying to raise the outcasts and the lower strata of Indian society, the most difficult and discouraging obstacle is the inertia and the abjectness of the people themselves.
She handed it down to the black Serjeant, who placed it in a corner, nuzzling, and rubbing his nose all over it, as if he had been propitiating the tiny Moloch by the abjectness of his abasement.
It is bound Ere it has life: yea, all the chains are forged Long ere its being: all liberty and love 135 And peace is torn from its defencelessness; Cursed from its birth, even from its cradle doomed To abjectness and bondage!
Rome, With one stern blow, hurled not the tyrant down, Crushed not the arm red with her dearest blood 190 Had not submissive abjectness destroyed Nature's suggestions?
Carroll decided that it was because of the intensified melancholy and abjectness and shame of his expression.
The first monk who held the chair of abjectness in Solovetsk, before Nikita came in, was a miracle of self-denial, and his death was commemorated by an act of the rarest grace.
When this professor of abjectness died, he was honored by his brethren with a special funeral, inside the convent gates.
You have just been telling me about the shockingly unequal conditions of the people, the contrasts of waste and want, the pride and power of the rich, the abjectness and servitude of the poor, and all the rest of the dreadful story.
The abjectness of his position was not merely physical but mental.
A wave of abjectness swept over him That drenched, that drowned, his evil hardihood And wrecked him to a ruin of himself.
It has sunk to such a state of abjectness as to be attracted by the doings of the lowest of the low.
Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectnessof life.
