She heard the front door click, and stood still, an expression of real anger and mortification on her face.
Religious abstraction is not to be sought in lotus-formed drinking-cups, and mortification of the body is certainly not practised on golden chairs and soft cushions.
The religious teachings of the Egyptians before the Ptolemaic era do not suggest that the mortification of the flesh was a possible means of purifying the spirit.
But I am now awake, and will never expose myself to themortification of ----.
While these various speeches were being made, the young men with the ladies, had gathered around Holden, and were expressing their mortification at the annoyance he had experienced, and their pleasure at his escape.
But an incident took place, which, for a time, dashed his hopes to the ground, and covered him with mortification and confusion.
Upon returning to the river, where he hoped to triumph in the presence of those who had witnessed his disgrace, over one whom he now regarded as an enemy, he found to his infinite mortification that the bird had flown.
My mortification arises not from silly pride, but from being evidently excluded by a negative personal to me (now and for ever) flowing from a displeasure utterly irremovable.
Thereupon Howe attacked and captured two of the enemy, but to the mortification of the British the bulk of the French fleet got safely into Louisbourg; then a Gibraltar, now a lonely pasture beaten by the surf.
Newcastle with obvious mortification acknowledged his lapse, and the Chancellor hurriedly drafted an address.
It is a mortification as it must restrain the freedom of our correspondence, and at a time when more than ever I must want to talk to you.
Lord Beauchamp's(979) death: if they were out of the question, one could not be sorry for such a mortification to the pride of old Somerset.
Lord Kildare is married to the charming Lady Emily Lennox, who went the very next day to see her sister Lady Caroline Fox, to the great mortification of the haughty Duchess-mother.
I see him evidently and frequently suffer great pain and mortification when he is so obstreperous.
I must not enter, here, upon his mortification and disappointment: the health and preservation of his daughter could alone be more precious to him than your Majesty's protection.
So we all behaved alike - and easily can I now conceive the disappointment and mortification of poor Mr. Garrick when he read "Lethe" to a royal audience.
I went first up-stairs to Gomme, and had themortification to learn that the sweet Princess Amelia was already gone to bed.
I do not think Miss Ashton would have said as much to any other one of her little scholars; but she thought that this mortification and blow to her self-conceit would do Gracie no harm.
Happily not one of the other children thought of asking her if the petticoat were finished, so that she was spared the mortification of confessing that it was not.
To be most subject to the will of God, with the greatest mortification and denial of our own wills, is the mark of the most obedient, holy soul.
It is but the flesh that suffereth; and it furthereth your mortification of it.
You will show that you are not sluggish, and servants to your flesh, as those that cannot deny its ease; and you will further the mortification of all fleshly lusts and desires, which are fed by ease and idleness.
Mortification is as necessary to your salvation, as to theirs, but much more difficult.
On her account she had suffered the severest mortification a woman can undergo.
I will not ask you to think of my mortification at being jilted, for people would call it that.
She forgot her mortification of the night before, and looked what she was, a happy child.
The mortification to which her father had subjected her just at her moment of triumph was very bitter.
Her sayings and doings, and the mortification she inflicted on her daughter, were an endless source of amusement to them.
Annette could not restrain a momentary outburst, though she blushed with mortification for it as soon as the words were spoken.
It is indeed remarkable how one's brain keeps alive and working well under such circumstances, apparently unaffected by the temporary mortification of the remainder of the system.
This I thought must be owing to the injuries to my spine and to the mortification of my limbs, which had apparently affected my whole system except my head.
It was in the nature of a mortification and a penance.
But if the mortification of the flesh helps us to"-- She put up her hand and interrupted him.
His indulgence of the Protestants served only to bring upon his successors a war, which death saved himself the mortification of witnessing.
The Bohemian magnates were indignant that German generals should be put over their heads; Count Mansfeld remained in Pilsen, at a distance from the camp, to avoid the mortification of serving under Anhalt and Hohenlohe.
Well, really," said Sister Gaillarde, "I did not believe you could truly rejoice in the mortificationof your will till I saw how long it took you!
Thank you, the mortification is done; you will have to wait till next time: I only hope you will let this rejoicing count.
She had attempted likenesses of all her school-mates, one after another, and was disheartened and discouraged because none of them were perfect, and was overwhelmed with mortification when she heard them criticised.
Cloaks were being flung round the shoulders, hats swiftly pinned to the head; and Denham had the mortification of seeing Katharine helped to prepare herself by the ridiculous Rodney.
His mortification was so obvious that Henry scarcely liked to open the conversation with some remark of a literary character.
Words were so incapable of expressing all the mingled mockery and mortification with which he heard that last speech, that the unfortunate lawyer would have made derisive faces at him had he dared.
Perhaps this sharp pang of unexpected mortification and disappointment eased him of his heavier load.
Or, if this mortification were spared, there would be the same weary round of limitations and exactions from which he longed to break away.
