He asks himself, as he again subsides into mournful resignation, whether the applause of men may not be neutralized at its best by the ignoble circumstances which it entails.
Sludge, the Medium," is intended to show that even so ignoble a person as a sham medium may have something to say in his own defence; and so far as argument goes, Sludge defends himself successfully on two separate lines.
And, as she declares, it was "no ignoble presence.
The nobler love was not dishonoured by the more ignoble fancy, since it could not be touched by it.
His mother was charmed with this condescension, and urged him so well that in about three minutes the shining red globes ticked with gold were represented by a small, ignoble pile of frilled stalks blurred with pink.
Whose early years for future worth engage, No vulgar manhood, no ignoble age.
But what is the noblest Cathedral in the possession of an ignoble clergy?
But there is also the goddess Mena, who presides over the menses; though the daughter of Jupiter, ignoble nevertheless.
For noble and ignoble were indiscriminately massacred; and this not by legal authority and procedure, but by mobs and armed rioters.
But, as matter of historical fact, the idea of such presence has generally been both ignoble and false, and confined to nations of inferior race, who are often condemned to remain for ages in conditions of vile terror, destitute of thought.
The ignoble gang that had been arrested for that affair had given the apostles of the Anarchist doctrine as their references!
Then, as one passed along, one caught snatches of horrible phrases, particulars about the instrument of death, ignoble boasts, and filthy jests reeking with blood.
Have you read Sagnier's ignoble article this morning?
Thank you," said Edward, "you are removing a terrible temptation from my way, and helping to make me stronger and less ignoble than I am.
Let golden lyre Of regal Court engaged in worldly strife Clothe princely foibles with poetic fire, And crown with fame a king's ignoble life.
The man groaned and stumbled in his path, as, weeks before, Pierre Le Beau, dazed with a more ignoble grief, had groaned and stumbled on these very stones.
And this, too, just when that same world had cast its fascinations round her, just when its blandishments had gained possession of her heart, and made her feel that all without its pale was ignoble and unworthy.
Still there would have been somethingignoble in this humility, something that would ill become my blood as a Dalton.
Thou art sprung too of no ignoble blood, Or there's no faith in instinct!
Aught evil or ignoble never can I Suspect of thee!
There they were protected against all contact with ugliness, all ignoble influences, all sources of unhappiness except themselves.
She seemed to have emerged from an ignoble dream; she longed to merit again, at least in her devotion to this supine figure, that word, perfection.
Delamere was gloomy and acrimonious, austere in his private morals, and punctual in his devotions, but greedy of ignoble gain.
Here and there, lost in that ignoble crowd, was to be found a man of true integrity and public spirit.
But none of these things moved that sluggish and ignoble nature.
Rather myself had stood In that ignoble wood, Bare to the mob, on holyday or high day.
That a man's most exalted reason should depend upon the ignoble fermenting of a fruit, which sparrows pluck at as well as we!
With the death of the ignoble son of Valerian, I believed would close our undisputed reign over most of these eastern provinces.
The conqueror of Egypt would, I believe, run a not ignoble tilt with the conqueror of a Gallic province.
Many of the old Notre Dame tombstones have been put to ignoble purposes, serve as doorsteps for houses in the neighbourhood, or to pave kitchens, or are stowed away in cellars and back-yards.
If my children only will not hear theseignoble charges!
I shuddered as I thought what I had come to seek in a spot so well suited to my ignoble purpose.
God is my witness that, up to this day, I did not believe myself capable of playing the ignoble role I have assumed, the meanest role of all, that of a jealous lover.
The beasts, not being in a position to resent the ignoble office thrust upon them, were compelled to do duty as concrete types of those obvious virtues and vices of which alone the unsophisticated ethical sense was ready to take cognisance.
Peru must live,' they say, which does not mean a noble form of poverty, but an altogether ignoble form of extravagance, and even wasteful magnificence.
You cannot but have perceived latterly how our faith, instead of being, as it once was, the symbol of low birth and ignoble connections, has become the very bond of aristocratic society.
