You perhaps have been so lucky that you cannot appreciate what it means to feel shame at the station of your own father and mother.
People said it was a shame that a man like Josh Smith should be run out of Mariposa by three license commissioners.
In this supreme moment of her anguish and shame she forgot all else.
He was stabbed through and through with shame and remorse.
Love some good girl, that will be what I was once to uncle, and be true to you, and worthy of you, and know no shame but me.
She slowly, very slowly, broke into a laugh, and pointed at Emily with her hand, as if she were a sight of shame for gods and men.
All the sensitive feelings it wounded so cruelly, all the shame and misery it kept alive within my breast, became more poignant as I thought of this; and I determined that the life was unendurable.
It would be a burning shame upon you, even now, if she and I exchanged a word.
But the agony of mind, the remorse, and shame I felt, when I became conscious next day!
The boy sprang to his feet as if he had felt a blow, and stood before her with one arm laid across his eyes, as, in shame for his tears, he bent his head.
Manh, being discovered, vanished away, covered with shame and confusion at the abortiveness of his malicious attempt.
Dismayed at such a wonderful sign, the heretics fled in every direction to conceal their shame and confusion.
However, I was to have other measure dealt to me; great authorities ruled it so; and a learned controversialist in the North thought it a shame that I did not leave the Church of England as much as ten years sooner than I did.
Who can but feel shame when the religion of Ximenes, Borromeo, and Pascal, is so overlaid?
Shame of poverty makes Laertes go every day a step nearer to it, and fear of poverty stirs up Irus to make (10) every day some further progress from it.
Irus is moved by the fear of poverty, and Laertes by the shame of it.
Learning improves native genius, and right training strengthens the character; but bad morals will bring to shame the best advantages of truth.
And divers the like precepts occur in other heathens; the mention whereof may well serve to strikeshame into many loose and vain people bearing the name of Christians.
He," saith the wise man, "that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
So I wished that all persons who profited by this performance might feel a shame so keen that they would make public avowal and apology, and, as partial restitution, offer their wealth to promote the cause of free railroads!
Its a damn shame the way the women go on about her.
There is a certain broad field of literature so grossly androcentric that for very shame men have tried to keep it to themselves.
Off with you to the pest house, at any cost of pain and shame to you or your family.
No late remorse, no new-found shame Can save our honor there: But we can now begin to pay The starved and stunted heir!
An uncomely act without shame Ham commised, When he of his father the secret parts revealed.
With the wolves of doubt and the jackals of shame howling at his heels, how could he start for a thousand-mile race!
Was the innocent bound to share the shame of the guilty?
Her first fear was the river, but her conscience enlightened her, and her shame could not prevent her from seeking him at the curate's.
Perhaps your shame is the hand of love washing the defilement from off you.
Leave it," cried Leopold, "until an innocent man shall have suffered the torture and shame of a false accusation, that a guilty man may a little longer act the hypocrite!
Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so.
Again I say, let us keep our shame and be made clean!
It's an awful shame such a thing should have been, but I don't find out that anybody in particular was to blame for it.
Then shall all his past life open upon him, and in shame and dismay will he repent a thousand-fold, and will sin no more.
All the wimmen was out at their doors talking about it, and saying wot a shame it was and 'ow silly Mrs. Weed was to put up with it.
I put mine on Henery Walker, and the time I spent in 'is garden 'elping 'im is a sin and a shame to think of.
With shame and sorrow do I say it, but say it I must: My love went the way of the love of other men who feel (this was and remains the truth) far less than I.
To do this it was necessary for me to stoop; and while I was bowed, searching for some least sign of Him, in the dew and dark, I knew not what wave of shame and sorrow came upon me, but I fell upon my knees.
It was the town of Entrevaux, and to my shame I had never heard of it.
The donkey, too, with its pack, and Innocentina with her toadstool hat, must have added for the aëronaut the last touch of shame to our environment.
I felt shame that I had patronised it earlier, with condescending admiration of some prettinesses.
What wrong to honor, spite to Christian love, And shame to self beyond self-pardoning!
My cup was filled with wormwood; and it grew Bitter and still more bitter, day by day, Changing from shame and hate, to stern revenge.
Well, time passed on; and rumor came at last To tell the story of my husband's shame And my dishonor.
As for the rider, his coolness would have put to shame the most accomplished horseman in Europe.
Some of his spirit remained with a few of us in Chicago and we could not rest until some effort was made here to rid us of the shame of slavery in the twentieth century under the flag of the free.
There is no more depraved class of people in the world than those human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.
The shame of it is that in America in the twentieth century such slavery should still be tolerated.
Within a few blocks of Moody Church was a girl, an elocutionist, a musician, a sweet, stately girl of refinement, whose home has been in a house of shame for the last five or six years.
Young men, and older men, who patronize houses of shame should be made to see and feel that all this hellish traffic goes on at their instance and at their expense.
And here let it be said that the breaking of the spirit, the crushing of all hope for any future save that of shame is always a part of the initiation of a white slave.
But, Oh, how I felt the shame of the city and of the churches near her home, that permitted conditions that put a good girl to tests like this.
The one object of those concerned in the subjugation of a girl who has become a victim of the wiles of the white slaver is to break down all hope of escape from the life of shame and bitterness into which she has been entrapped.
It is not alone the large cities that furnish beautiful girlhood to lives of shame and debauchery.
Shame on the minister and the Church that is indifferent under the revelations that are made every day showing to what depths the vile creatures of the red light districts have sunken to gain a little more of cruel gold!
It would be unworthy of her even to repeat such slander, and the color surged again into her face for very shame of her anger.
It takes humility to make the beginnings of a scholar, and weariness and shame of ignorance, and faith in an intellectual empire, and a high trust that the mind is made for truth, and the truth for mind.
They were men who knew the shame and glory of contemporary life.
Then we looked at one another in shame and dismay.
Some sense of shame prompted Solomon Meyer to yield to this request, though in his secret heart he knew that his own plans could be more safely carried out if his victim did drown himself; and the sooner the better.
Were it known to those about you, you would not for shame lie here, and indulge regrets after an imprudent and silly girl.
Jane had contrived to convince them that in poverty itself there lay no shame or stigma; but a great deal in paltry attempts to conceal it.
What had so sadly prostrated herself was the shame of having to appear before the court; to stand in it and give her evidence.
Shame in the sight of God and before men befits me in recording so holy an obligation.
This daughter, to his grief and despair, had left her home; and it was, the father said, a gentleman who had brought the shame upon them.
For the unhappy girl whom he had brought to shame and ruin he felt not one spark of compassion; his own safety was his only consideration.
Now, sir, as was natural, I tried to get out of her the name of the man who has brought this ruin and shame upon us, but never a word would she let slip, even to them who proved themselves better friends to her than I was.
How comes it that, when I taxed her with it, she confessed that it was the portrait of the scoundrel who had brought her shame upon her?
A cold-blooded law court, with cold-blooded lawyers arguing this way and that, while those who have been brought to ruin and shame sit down with their wasted lives before them?
The people in the room were saying it was a shame that the police would not allow him to go to his burning shop, but he, in answer, said that they were right in preventing him.
