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Short sentences using abject
- Broken and abject he listened. [11]
More example sentences with the word abject in them
- From this client while in a state of abject subjection, Berry, whose heart was hard that day, but whose diplomacy was impeccable, discovered a thing of moment. [11]
- The people in there, a hundred of the best people of the county--" "The best people of the county--such abject snobbery! [11]
- Only, now and then, there is a letter of abject humiliation and complete surrender, when some golden vision, some iridescent soap-bubble, had vanished at his touch. [5]
- As soon as the young officer had struck the first blow, and the god had submitted in abject impotence, they had rushed upon him and saved their captain the trouble of ending the task he had begun. [10]
- His indignation was shot with abject impulses to go back and tell Fulkerson that it was all right, and that he gave up. [8]
- Terror, abject terror, seized him now, so that his knees smote together. [9]
- Is it good policy for mankind to subject themselves to such degrading vassalage and abject submission? [6]
- Hurrying to the police station, I found Mr. Weill in a state of excitement and abject fear, for an ugly crowd had gathered outside. [9]
- Moreover, the American people had shown that they were unwilling to make any sacrifices for the permanent betterment of conditions, and as soon as their incomes began to fall off they turned again to the bosses and capitalists like an abject flock of sheep. [9]
- Fulkerson was still morally crawling round on his hands and knees, as he said, in abject gratitude at Beaton's feet, though he had his qualms, his questions; and he declared that Beaton was the most inspired ass since Balaam's. [8]
- Then, in the midst of this abject self-pity, I was stricken with shame. [9]
- We are all living in abject terror of these licensed robbers. [4]
- Why, you stated it as clear as the sun to anybody but an abject idiot; but it's that confounded cocktail that has played the mischief. [5]
- Zminis, as was his custom when he wished to assume an appearance of respect which he did not feel, was alternately abject and pressingly confidential; while Aristides calmly accepted his hypocritical servility, and answered it with dignified condescension. [10]
- His bow, as he approached the potentate, was neither abject nor awkward, and Caesar felt bitter wrath at the thought that this splendid youth, of all men, should have selected him as the butt of his irony. [10]
- In places argument had degenerated into abject entreaty. [9]
- We shall scarcely find in Europe a peasantry whose abject poverty is not in some measure alleviated by this power which literature gives them to live outside it. [4]
- In spite of disappointments and rebuffs in many quarters, she still kept faith with her ambitions, and, fortunately for herself, she did not see the abject failure of many of her schemes. [11]
- The higher the civilization has risen, the more abject is the desolation of barbarism that ensues. [4]
- Amshar was crouching behind Mrs. Falchion, and clinging to her skirts in abject fear. [11]
- When she was away from Ditmar and tried to think about it she fell into an abject perplexity, so full was it of anomalies and contradictions, of conflicting impulses; so far beyond her knowledge and experience. [9]
- Gregory, the district attorney, was in an abject funk; in any case a mediocre lawyer, after the indictment he was no help at all. [9]
- Just as abject as was his sudden fear, so triumphant was his reassertion of himself. [11]
- The eunuch affected an abject humility, and poured forth a stream of flattering words, in which he likened the princess to the sun, the starry heavens, a pure fount of happiness, and a garden of roses. [10]
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