1 Still the man stood silent and abject.
2 She had to appease him with the most abject of apologies.
3 The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 4 Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 5 A lad whose face had borne an expression of exalted courage, the majesty of he who dares give his life, was, at an instant, smitten abject.
6 Inwardly he was reduced to an abject pulp by these chance words.
7 It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
8 Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.
9 That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing laugh, "It's more than that, Mum."
10 In this progress I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook, who, being behind me, persisted all the way as a delicate attention in arranging my streaming hatband, and smoothing my cloak.
11 She remembered his words, the expression of his face, that recalled an abject setter-dog, in the early days of their connection.
12 When the agony of shame had passed from him he tried to raise his soul from its abject powerlessness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 13 He had been obliged to offer an abject apology to Mr. Alleyne for his impertinence but he knew what a hornet's nest the office would be for him.
14 At the sudden screech there was a movement of abject terror through that wedged mass of bodies.
15 I remembered his abject pleading, his abject threats, the colossal scale of his vile desires, the meanness, the torment, the tempestuous anguish of his soul.