1 No one could have gone out of his way to degrade himself more shamelessly, and I fully realised it, fully, and yet I went on pacing up and down from the table to the stove.
2 I may degrade and defile myself, but I am not anyone's slave.
3 He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.
4 The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do.
5 The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade.
6 The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter VI. 7 I have no mind to encounter a sentence of degradation, or even to lose my Preceptory, for the sake of a painted piece of Jewish flesh and blood.
8 But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full.
9 Mr. Bumble has been heard to say, that in this reverse and degradation, he has not even spirits to be thankful for being separated from his wife.
10 Sir Walter could not have borne the degradation of being known to design letting his house.
11 However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
12 It was the final degradation for her to think of Ashley reduced to the state of these other soldiers.
13 But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation.
14 The countenance of Hawkeye was haggard and careworn, and his air dejected, as though he felt the deepest degradation at having fallen into the power of his enemies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 15 As he passed along, the trees and bushes, the huts of his servitude, the whole scene of his degradation, seemed to whirl by him as the landscape by the rushing ear.