They felt belittled at merely becoming the brothers of those they scorned as being beneath them.
It was his daughter Fatimah who, arriving a few moments later, threw the filth far from her father, and railed at the wretches who had belittled themselves by the infliction of such a repulsive insult.
His mind belittled the cause for which her idolized father was, at that moment, perilling his life, and to which her dearest friends had consecrated themselves.
He desired not only to take revenge, but to glut himself with vengeance on the man who had stolen from him the beauty, belittled his Cossack glory, and covered him with ridicule, swaddling him like a baby.
It will gradually establish an equal place in life for the feminine characteristics, so long belittled and derided, and give pre-eminent dignity to the human power.
An impulsive man is too apt to meddle with details, and so to weaken the sense of responsibility in the intermediate officers, who hate to be ignored or belittled before the soldiers.
If she has not been economical, a goer about, has wasted her house, has belittled her husband, that woman one shall throw her into the waters.
His words belittled me in mine own eyes and I threw the lute from my hand, whereupon he said, "Hast thou not with thee some one who is skilled in singing?
We find that a woman "who has set her face to go out and has acted the fool, has wasted her house or has belittled her husband," may either be divorced without compensation or retained in the house as the slave of a new wife.
He had to be the centre and pivot of everything, and therefore Cæsar was diminished and belittled to such a degree, unfortunately, that this matchless genius in war and statesmanship has become a miserable caricature.
But he hated and despised ingratitude above all vices, because it at once impoverished and belittled his soul.
Accordingly in his bulletins he glossed over the part played by Davout and belittled his success, but in his private letters he warmly praised the Marshal's courage and ability.
They belittled this world and exaggerated the importance of the next.
He was not afraid of dignified wall space, and there was no nervous anxiety manifested, which would havebelittled it with trivial ornamentation.
Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur.
Lasteyrie has belittled the explanation of an Oriental source, since the mode of construction in France differed from that of cupolas in the East.
Scholasticism has been belittled by the modern sophists from the time of the XVIII-century Encyclopædist to the XIX-century superman.
The time has passed when the Protestant world belittled itself by contemptuously calling the monks lazy, sensual, and idle, and by seeing no good in these ancient communities.
Poor misplaced, belittled Lorenzo de Medici Randall, thought ridiculous and good-for-naught by his associates, because he resembled them in nothing!
If Douglas was now in an office that belittled him, I was sorry, for I was his friend in all loyalty.
He was compelling to look at, not when standing, for then his short legs caricatured and belittled his great body.
He never belittled antagonists, underrated his opponents' ability, or hesitated to admit a mistake.
She felt belittled at sharing with such people an emotion that seemed to her far too good for them.
She was afraid that shebelittled herself in Dyckman's eyes when she let slip the remorseful Wail, "I wish I had been kinder to the poor boy!
Ferriday belittled himself in Kedzie's eyes by his groans of baffled egotism.
He smiled, and modestlybelittled his qualifications.
Everything was dimmed and belittled amid that calm greatness; the carriage with its occupants seemed, as it were, a kind of beetle, clinging to the cliffs along which it was climbing to the summit with insolence.
Such "social work" creates a strained relation--the recipient of bounty feels that he has been belittled in the taking, and it is a question whether the giver should not also feel that he has been belittled in the giving.
