Never had the supreme tribunal of justice abased itself more ignobly than when it listened so complaisantly to the king, and approved without qualification an organized massacre perpetrated unblushingly under its very eyes.
They are not the representatives of the ignobly born, or of any class of citizens.
In fact that oddity, during a silence of some minutes, came back to Peter himself: the note had been forced--it sounded almost ignobly frivolous from a man on the eve of proceeding to a high diplomatic post.
I hate myself when I think of the depth to which I have stooped in permitting myself to think tenderly of one so ignobly born, but I love him!
The maiden treats my suit with scorn, Rejects my humble gift, my lady; She says I am ignobly born, And cuts my hopes adrift, my lady.
This act of revenge wasignobly executed by way of surprise, and was not less ignobly celebrated by a caricature of the Capitoline triumph exhibited in Alexandria.
Hear ye the words I speak, for they are true: And if my speech be wise, despise it not, As of one worthless, or ignobly born.
I doom'd Ignobly here to sink, the mighty flood O'erwhelming me, like some poor shepherd lad, Borne down in crossing by a wintry brook.
To die a Prince--or live a slave-- Thy choice is mostignobly brave!
Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.
By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done To pluck me by the beard.
It is always easier, as flesh judges, to live ignobly than to live as Jesus Christ would have us live.
It remains to be seen if the present struggle must not ignoblyfail in France, still mindful of its early vows, in spite of its Emperor.
Vain is honor, vain is human confidence, if these nations, at a moment of high duty, can thus ignobly fail.
Now she consumed far rougher and more unpalatable meals to the last crumb with avidity, and once or twice even ignobly consumed what should have been her supper at the same time as her dinner.
As he transferred the dripping paint-brush to his left hand and advanced towards Evarne with his hairy right arm outstretched, the girl felt rather like ignobly bolting away.
Next year, loth to quit ignobly the quest he had taken up so eagerly, he put on the dress of a foreigner and went back to dwell with the king.
The ignobly decent, as poor Biffen calls it, is so very far from that sphere in which you are naturally at home.
What I really aim at is an absolute realism in the sphere of the ignobly decent.
Shall I hint that it deals with the ignobly decent?
The author of OEdipe and the Henriade had to hang ignobly about in the crowd at Versailles at the marriage of Lewis XV.
That thou shouldst perish, so ignobly too, And in my kingdom; what a wretched fate!
While life is thine, consent not, Háfiz, That it should speed ignobly by; But strive thou to attain the object Of thy existence ere thou die.
No villanous bounty yet hath past my heart; Vnwisely, notignobly haue I giuen.
By the kinde Gods, 'tis most ignobly done To plucke me by the Beard Reg.
I know my uncontrollable agitation has betrayed much, and there is little doubt but she will finish what I have so ignobly begun.
Mrs. Pierson, tell me frankly, do you wish that the bullet which so ignobly tore my back had finished its work, so that the present summing up would have been avoided?
Then there came another letter to the widow's cottage, saying: "I am most ignobly discharged.
God be praised that Kansas does not bend ignobly beneath the yoke!
We grow nobly like what we adore, and ignobly like what we hate; and no people in Ireland became so anglicized in intellect and temperament, and even in the manner of expression, as those who hated our neighbors most.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignobly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
