No sooner had Frederick passed through North Italy on the way to his triumph and ultimate humiliation in Rome than the formation was begun of that greater Lombard League which was to prove so terrible and invincible an enemy.
Those in the northeast had given no help to the Russians of the Dnieper; perhaps the grand prince George II of Suzdal[58] may have rejoiced over the humiliation of the Kievians and Galicians.
Thanks to the intervention of Grace's husband and of Harry, John was not put to the trial and humiliation of being obliged to sell the family place, although constrained to live in it under a system of more rigid economy.
The humiliation of another woman seems to them their own humiliation; and man's lordly contempt for another woman seems like contempt of themselves.
Godolphin thought often of Lucilla; but perhaps, if the truth of his heart were known even to himself, a certain sentiment of pain andhumiliation was associated with the tenderness of his remembrance.
His only safety and strength lay in the continuance of the war; on the chance of reaping new victories, and, therefore, new humiliation to his enemies.
For days the implied humiliation keeps agitating me; I recoil from the thought of personally affixing my name to the meek supplication of the printed form, and finally decide to refuse.
Anger and humiliation extinguish my momentary impulse to rush to her assistance.
IV The monotony of the routine, the degradation and humiliation weigh heavier in the shadow of liberty.
It is an outrage to lock me up for resenting undeserved humiliation at the hands of an unfriendly guard; and he cannot bear to see me thus persecuted.
II Humiliation overwhelms me as I don the loathed suit of striped black and gray.
Humiliation overcomes me as my eye falls, for the first time in the full light of day, upon my striped clothes.
Bitter indeed was the fresh humiliation he encountered: knowledge that, while his music was beginning to be sought for by every orchestra in Europe, Russia would suddenly have none of him!
And it is our secret sense of this, which, through humiliation and defeat, through mockery and revilement, through want and privation, shall keep us steadfast and of good courage!
But what a humiliationto ask for money--even from great-hearted Ivan!
You'll move heaven and earth to spare yourself a second humiliation like the present," she told him with a wise shake of the head.
Nigel retired with a nicely blended expression of amazement, humiliation and menace.
A blind confidence in his power over the king still possesses him, and, besides, to his haughty spirit, the humiliation of submission to his enemies is bitterer than death.
While the pain and humiliation of her whipping had not been able to wring a sound from the young thoroughbred, yet fright of this sort was afar different thing.
Later, armed with a magistrate's order, he could pay back with interest his humiliation of this morning.
A sharp word of reproof sent Lady skulking into a corner; anger forgotten inhumiliation at the public rebuke.
While the whip-slashes were too light to do more than sting her well-mattressed back, yet the humiliation of them seared deep into her sensitive nature.
She would sometimes have been glad to die: but it would have been too abominable to succumb in the midst of humiliation and to go no farther.
He had drained at last the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
But she had been inured to humiliation of late, and it would be only another drop in the cup of pain.
If it does come, it brings at least one recompense: the humiliation and the trouble, the bitter pain and the carking care are escaped from, left behind for ever in the cruel world.
If I am mistaken, I do not want to be twitted with having thrown cold water on the martial ardour of my countrymen; if I am right, I will willingly forego the honour of having prophesied the humiliation of my countrymen.
He told me of other "discoveries" of his, after conversation with many German people, explaining perhaps the lack of hostility and humiliation which had surprised us all.
For herself, the tide that bore her on was too deep to let these things hurt her; she looked down and saw the soreness and humiliation of them pictorially, at the bottom, gliding smoothly over.
They sat together for a moment or two in silence with only that supervening sense of successful aggression between them, and the humiliation was Hilda's.
For a crowning humiliation Abélard was consigned by the council to a large monastery near Soissons, which served as jail or penitentiary for that ecclesiastical province.
Daisy was master, and he submitted, with a feeling of humiliation which showed itself upon his face and made him very quiet and ill at ease, except when Bessie was with him.
It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us.
The consequence was that that disk missed the whole hopscotch plan a yard or two, and then there was humiliation on one side and laughter on the other.
North Arabian principality) who sought the humiliation of Judah.
Azariah’s wars in the south because of a great humiliation which he received in the course of them.
Subsequently, in the war of 1866, he was supposed to have insulted Italy by making her conclude peace with Austria, on the basis of the cession of Venetia, before she could wipe out the humiliation of her defeats at Custozza and Lissa.
To the Mahommedans the possession of the Holy Places by the Christians was as great a humiliation as their desecration by the Mahommedans was to the crusaders.
Napoleon was, as he thought, now in a position to bring about the humiliation of Great Britain.
He went without spirit, sure of the impossibility of the thing, feeling only the humiliation and failure that all at once flung itself like a storm-cloud across his ambition.
Such confession before the creatures leads to one’s humiliation and abasement, and God—exalted by His Glory—does not wish for the humiliation of His servants.
His ends were in fact gained by the humiliation of France, and he had as little desire to give England a strong foothold in the neighbourhood of his own Netherlands as in Wolsey's days.
The humiliation of the Emperor, the fierce warfare which now engaged both his forces and those of France, removed from England the danger of outer interference.
The triumphant cry of Latimer could reach only hearts as bold as his own, while the sad pathos of the Primate's humiliation and repentance struck chords of sympathy and pity in the hearts of all.
But the very humiliation of the great religious body broke the spell beneath which Englishmen had bowed.
Had he posed before the public as a hero or been tempted to prophesy a speedy triumph for his army, the humiliation and disappointment might have driven him to resign from the command.
It is the prerogative of a man to propose, and of a woman to accept or refuse, and a lady of tact and kind heart will exercise her prerogative before her suitor is brought to the humiliation of an offer which must result in a refusal.
Even if you are conscious of this superiority, a proper and becoming modesty will lead you to conceal it as far as possible, that you may not put to shame or humiliation those less fortunate than yourself.
