The exorbitancy of his grief, and the mortifications he underwent, soon produced an incurable malady, under which he languished from the month of September in the preceding year till the tenth of August in the present, when he expired.
This gentleman is said to have met with such a cold reception, and so many mortifications in the execution of his office, that he was in a very little time sick of his employment.
But there was no sourness in his asceticism; in the midst of his bitterest mortifications his countenance bore at all times the impress of an unruffled serenity and cheerfulness of spirit.
There were terrible mortifications in the business, and Vitre had to submit to them more than any one.
We give here a fragment of this celebrated book, a kind of mute witness of the science and mortifications of the first printer.
The detail of poor Mrs. Germaine's mortificationsand sufferings cannot be interesting.
To all appearances, I was well cared for, and yet what mortifications did she not impose upon me!
Deep down in its heart it treasures those precious drops of dew--the mortifications of other days--and they remind it that it is small and frail.
It was only during her last illness, when she was ordered to say what disagreed with her, that her mortifications came to light.
It is impossible to describe the many and great mortifications those two young ladies met with.
Anne herself would have found the mortifications of it more than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter's feelings they must have been dreadful.
Oh, you know not, you dream not, of the galling mortificationsto which a proud woman, whose love commands her pride, is subjected!
I shall one day remember all the mortifications he has inflicted upon me," said she, "and an hour will come when I shall have a reckoning with him, and full retribution!
He had originated and accomplished two revolutions that he might become generalissimo, and had obtained nothing butmortifications and humiliations that embittered every moment of his life!
But though Goldsmith suffered frequent mortifications in society from the overbearing, and sometimes harsh, conduct of Johnson, he always did justice to his benevolence.
To tell you the truth, I never thought I could regret your absence so much as our various mortifications on the road have often taught me to do.
I have been witness to many mortifications he has suffered in Dr.
A recollection of these early mortifications induced him, in after years, most strongly to dissuade his brother Henry, the clergyman, from sending a son to college on a like footing.
Goldsmith remained but a short time in this situation, and to the mortifications experienced there we doubtless owe the picturings given in his writings of the hardships of an usher's life.
Mortifications of the body may preserve us from sins of the flesh: but they are no certain protection even against these.
Bodily mortifications may be useful; but they may also be harmful to both soul and body.
She had not, however, at first been sensible of all the mortifications that might have been expected from her condition.
This was only one out of innumerable instances, that every day seemed to multiply, of petty mortifications which Mr. Tyrrel was destined to endure on the part of Mr. Falkland.
These appearances I too frequently interpreted into grounds of suspicion, though I might with equal probability and more liberality have ascribed them to the cruel mortifications he had encountered in the objects of his darling ambition.
It is melancholy, but it is useful, to record themortifications of such authors.
I have compassion for the mortifications that you tell me befall our little friend, and I pity her much more, since I know that they are only owing to the barbarous customs of our country.
They may see there what mortificationsand variety of misery are the unavoidable consequences of gallantries.
Therefore the opportunity to retaliate and to punish him for all the mortifications that he had occasioned her, would never come.
I cannot bring myself to credit him with contemptible views; and I can only think that he is suffering those mortifications which arise from a false estimate of the value of the good things of this world.
When we had quitted the province where we had both experienced so many bitter mortifications and such grievous trials, we had imagined that we should never feel any inclination to return.
Either enthusiasm, or utter mechanical coldness, is necessary to reconcile men to the cares and mortifications of life.
This amiable young lady, seeing the trials and mortificationsof this sensitive child, begged Mrs. Bellamy to allow Lilias to become her room-mate, and she would assist her in her lessons.
Numberless were the mortifications to which she was obliged to submit on account of her ignorance, while her timidity and shyness increased in proportion to the reproofs of her teachers, and the ridicule of her schoolfellows.
But it is sufficient, to eliminate the idea of a fraud, to know the mortifications and the disillusions which eventually overwhelmed this honest man, without affecting his belief.
The only set-off I know to these rebuffs and mortifications is sometimes in an accidental notice or involuntary mark of distinction from a stranger.
Want of provisions compelled him in a short time to abandon an enterprise now desperate; and he returned full of indignation to England, where fresh struggles and new mortifications awaited him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mortifications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
