Better anything than she should think herself shamed and slighted," he told himself.
The sense was upon him, a shamed and helpless one, of selling his birthright.
Jerome looked at her, gave a quick, shamed glance at the little outstretched hand, colored red, and began backing away.
He had always a sensation of nervous impatience with this mild, negatively sweet woman which he could not overcome, though he felt shamed by it.
He was shamed and awed and overwhelmed by this glimpse of the nakedness of nature and that mighty current which swept him on with all mankind.
He was startled when he found himself alone in this place and said the say which ne'er yet shamed its sayer, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great!
But Claire, shamed by her brother's ungraciousness, spoke up courteously to relieve the visitor's dire embarrassment.
He is enough to blame--he has shamed our hospitality and every trace of gratitude enough--by letting you be locked in there at all and by consenting to have you marooned on the key.
Norman, I take back my word; I crave your pardon, and I am shamed to have spoken so to a sick man of his own country-folk.
Now, you know who I am, and now I have kept my word, which was never to die till I gave you a shamed face.
But neither did I then think that I was to be shamed with the taint of disgrace, with thy frailness to thy word and thy beguiling pledges.
This compassion shamed the Russians out of any further rage against such a king, who could not be driven even by the most grievous wrongs to inflict death upon his prisoners.
Then she caught a sight of her own miserable, shamed face in her looking-glass, and flushed redder and struck herself in her face angrily, and then fell to walking up and down her little room.
I never taught you to be fickle," she said, with a kind ofshamed bewilderment.
She made an angry shamed motion of her head, which might have signified anything.
Then she spake: "I am all shamed to be naked thus before these men, Madam Mary, grant that I may die!
To do the bidding of your letter, and to say that whilst I live I shall be shamed for the bitter words I gave you when I was sick.
Good stuff and true there was in that old man; and had Richard or I been less determined, his fine and noble heroism in a cause which was not his own would have shamed us into following where he led.
So I would have lapsed into shamed silence, but Jennifer would not suffer it.
He had took a Bible oath to me two days afore not to touch a card with One-leg again, and he was 'shamed to do it before me.
Then he handed back to theshamed and angry man the poor, pitiful little letter.
Her poor, bright, shamed head lay so long and so still on her folded arms that one looking in upon her might have thought her dead.
When, abruptly, she came to herself and realized what she had been doing, the shamed color rose in her face.
He grew very silent; he was very pale; in his pain he turned to his sister with an openness of emotion which frightened and shamed her; he had no self-control and no dignity.
In these months of tormenting jealousy, of continually crushed hope that Elizabeth would begin to care for him, of occasional shamed consciousness of having taken advantage of a woman--Blair Maitland had had very little to amuse him.
I did indeed," Hilda replied, and bent her shamed head upon her hands again in the confession.
Here is my story, Michael Daragh, and it is your story, too, for you shamed me into doing it.
But Mr. Duncan at once subscribed for Liberty Bonds, and so did Professor Dyer, and that shamed Silas Herring into buying a big bunch of them also.
She shamed me out of my folly, and her stern honesty and nobility saved me from a brief and humiliating career of dishonorable duplicity.
The truth of the matter is just this: Stanley has an ugly habit of cursing, which I will not tolerate; and, twice when I heard him swearing at the other children, I shamed him well and slapped him soundly.
The scheme was so simple that I was shamedin that it had not occurred to me at the very beginning.
Then he began to laugh in the most unfeeling way, and make fun of the human race, although he knew that what he had been saying shamed us and wounded us.
No man had ever pursued her with fleet steps and sparkling eyes, no man had ever brought that expression of half-shamed happiness to her face which had made Millicent look just now like a child racing with her own shadow.
Violet, who had listened with shamed and pained attention, flushed deeply.
My lord, I should have shamed her by any such allusion, and lost all hope of winning her heart.
I think Hank oughta be 'shamed of hisself," he says, "fer the way he talks about you.
The Judge, I reckon, felt kinda 'shamed of hisself.
Shamed are all they who serve graven images, Who boast themselves of the Nothings.
Let them be shamed and turned back, All they who hate Zion.
To beshamed before men have I always dreaded, but 'tis worse to be shamed before myself.
The prayer-book interested him keenly, and though he strove to follow the service, his conscious Hebrew could not at all keep pace with the congregational speed, and he felt unreasonably shamed at his failures to rise or bow.
It shamed him to show such weakness, and his desire to look and be the gentleman to the last restored to him his manhood.
In glory's raiment clad, by thee the stars of heaven are shamed And in amaze the full moon stares to see thy goodlihead.
