1 'I wouldn't abase myself by descending to hold no conversation with him,' replied the Dodger.
2 Go on; cease not to throw all into confusion with thy terrors, to exalt the strength of a twice vanquished race, and abase the arms of Latinus before it.
3 She flamed with anger and abasement, and the sickening need of having to conciliate where she longed to humble.
4 In this mortifying abasement, the colonists, though innocent of her imbecility, and too humble to be the agents of her blunders, were but the natural participators.
5 Vronsky felt his elevation and his own abasement, his truth and his own falsehood.
6 The wallowing in private emotion, the utter abasement of his manly self, seemed to lend him a second nature, cold, almost visionary, business-clever.
7 The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, which contains an idea of torture and abasement.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 8 To such abasement were they brought in four days' time by what was in reality only a half-defeat.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 9 His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 10 As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 11 But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
12 Civilized people, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or bad fortune of a captain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 13 She could never have explained the chain of thought that made her smile; but the last link in it was that her husband, in exalting his brother and abasing himself, was not quite sincere.
14 He cowered in the shadow of the thought, abasing himself in the awe of God Who had made all things and all men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3