He had at times the eyes of a young divinity innocent of creation, untouched by the shames and terrors of the apparent world.
Did he, she wondered, really see what was in her, her hidden shames and insanities, the course of the wild blood that he knew must flow from all the Lemprieres to her?
That I mot be thy tormentour, or deye (720) On shames deeth; ther is noon other weye!
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenure of thy jealousy?
You are my all the world, and I must strive, To know my shames and praises from your tongue, None else to me, nor I to none alive, That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome!
He here avers that he cares very little "to know his shames or praises" from the tongues of others, and that his friend's judgment is all in all to him; but in Sonnet cxxi.
The first that ever made us taste of grief, And last of whom in torments we complain: You devils shap'd like angels, through whose deeds Our forked shames are made most visible!
Well, I see Thou plott'st our shames in thy great dignity.
There are so many shames in the world, shames not at all amusing, that you may see no harm in adding to the number.
His mother shames him so, poore boy hee weepes Con.
And your vnthought-of Harry chance to meet: For euery Honor sitting on his Helme, Would they were multitudes, and on my head My shames redoubled.
And shall it in more shame be further spoken, That you are fool'd, discarded, and shooke off By him, for whom these shames ye vnderwent?
And shall it in more shame be further spoken That you are fool'd, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent?
For every honour sitting on his helm, Would they were multitudes, and on my head My shames redoubled!
As soon as he had shared the sorrows and sufferings, the shames and the humiliations, of the world, he would become more in harmony with men and women.
But about the children I am not so sure; their very shames may be made a ladder such as Augustine made his sins.
Tis most true; 240 I own thy merit in those founded cities, Built for a whim, recorded with a verse Which shames both them and thee to coming ages.
The better; 80 And yet it almostshames me, we shall have So little to effect.
There remain its ardent statement of the duty of humanity, which shames our practice after a century of progress, and its faith in the efficacy of unregimented opinion to supersede brute force.
He pardons and spares the tyrant himself; and Cythna shames the slaves who are sent to bind her, until they weep in a sudden perception of the beauty of virtue and courage.
It shames my soul On the eve of war to slumber at thy side, And rise from thy dear breast when trumpets call A woeful world to misery and arms.
The same shudders and terrors, the same shamesbefore the gentry and Mr. Harden!
You are undone as a man would undoe an egge, A hundred shames about ye.
Rejoice in Christ crucified; rejoice in pains; steep yourself in shames for Christ crucified; graft your heart and your affection into the tree of the most holy Cross with Christ crucified, and make in His wounds your habitation.
If men are monks or prelates, they get from the tree the sweet and pleasing fruit of observing their Rule, enduring one another's faults, embracing shames and annoyances, placing on their shoulders the yoke of obedience.
He had no regard to love of self nor fleshly joy, but abased Himself in pain, enduringshames and insults, seeking the honour of the Father and our salvation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shames" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acolyte; beadle; clerk; deacon; elder; lector; lecturer; reader; sacristan; sexton
