Use humiliation in a sentence
Sentences ending with humiliation
- Then the angry, wronged heart rebelled against such humiliation. [10]
- Besides, her sister was too dear for her to rejoice in her humiliation. [10]
- In anger there was no humiliation. [11]
- He had thought to come back to miserable humiliation. [11]
- What if Miss Thorn had warned me in order to save the Celebrity from humiliation? [9]
- He retaliated upon the general condition of art among us the pangs of wounded vanity, which Alma had made him feel, and he folded up his manuscript and put it in his pocket, almost healed of his humiliation. [8]
- He could never survive the humiliation. [11]
- In the raw state of her sensitiveness she felt all this as a terrible and perhaps intended humiliation. [4]
- Then you have spared yourself one humiliation. [4]
- And Mrs. Mavick shed actual tears in thinking upon her own humiliation. [4]
More example sentences with the word humiliation in them
- These were three years of the deepest humiliation to Rhodopis, which she still remembers with horror. [10]
- Humiliation, in Mr. Worthington's eyes, had an element of publicity in it, and this episode had had none of that element; and Jethro Bass, moreover, was a highwayman who had held a pistol to his head. [9]
- Antoinette's eyes filled with tears,--tears of pride, of humiliation, ay, and of an anger of which I had not thought her capable. [9]
- Her face flushed with a resentment far greater than that of Rudyard's, and it was heightened by a humiliation which overwhelmed her. [11]
- But out of wilful idleness, the mere flattery of the senses, a vampire feeding upon the spirits and souls of others, for nothing save emotion for emotion's sake --that was shameless, it was the last humiliation of a woman. [11]
- It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us. [5]
- It is a truth which I thought needed to be told, and, as whatever of humiliation there is in it falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it. [7]
- In fact, he told me the reason he did not meet you upstairs was to spare you the humiliation of a beating in the sight of others. [5]
- One ought, indeed, to turn away from her rags, her poverty and her humiliation, and think of her only as she was when she sunk the fleets of Charlemagne; when she humbled Frederick Barbarossa or waved her victorious banners above the battlements of Constantinople. [5]
- Then he turned to Melissa and asked her: "Would you for their sakes be able to make up your mind to face bitter humiliation, nay, perhaps imminent danger? [10]
- Passionate tears came to her eyes at the thought of the humiliation she had suffered,--and before him, of all men. [9]
- And many a time in Nevada, afterwards, we had occasion to remember with humiliation that we were "emigrants," and consequently a low and inferior sort of creatures. [5]
- And then, as though to fill the cup of humiliation, came the thought of Cecil Grainger's call. [9]
- To enjoy it, though but for a brief season, she ought not to refuse to bear the hardest, most terrible things, and, if what was now her secret became rumoured among the people, to accept humiliation, shame, and scorn. [10]
- His anger at those he left behind was almost madness, his humiliation was unlike anything he had ever known. [11]
- An error in this matter would certainly involve some humiliation, for it is easier to explain what has happened than to foresee what is to come. [10]
- Love makes all things possible, and there is no humiliation in taking from one who loves and is loved, that uncapitalised and communal partnership which is not of the earth earthy. [11]
- Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [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]
- Also it was the time of year when butter and eggs, chickens and ducks were so cheap that it was a humiliation not to buy. [11]
- It was after the humiliation and spoliation of the kingdom by Napoleon that the monarch asked the philosopher what could be done to regain the lost position of the nation. [3]
- History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
- It's a charity that carries no humiliation with it. [5]
- It was Betty that brought him humiliation that evening. [9]
- Did it not spare him a humiliation as great and painful as could be imagined? [10]
- Why--she asked herself should the law make it so difficult, and subject her to such humiliation in a course which she felt to be right and natural and noble? [9]
- The ignominy, the shame, the humiliation of that would have been beyond her endurance. [11]
- In spite of self-control, jail had been to him the degradation of his hopes, the humiliation of his manhood. [11]
- Yet if I refused this place I must presently become dependent upon somebody for my bread, a thing necessarily distasteful to a man who had never experienced such a humiliation since he was thirteen years old. [5]
- Had the two quarreled at the ball the night before, and did Cordula now perceive an opportunity to punish the younger sister by the humiliation of the older one? [10]
- She would not purchase a few more years of valueless life at the cost of this humiliation and shame. [10]
- With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learning to ride fears a fall from his horse. [10]
- There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. [5]
- This fresh humiliation pierced her heart like a knife. [10]
- He was in particular partial to the poets, could quote at will from Gay and Thomson and Goldsmith and Gray, and even from Shakespeare, much to my own astonishment and humiliation. [9]
- For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself. [4]
- As he went on, his mind in a whirl of humiliation, self-accusation, and contempt, at length he began to be conscious of physical weariness. [4]
- All the humiliation of undeserved failure to accomplish what had been the dear desire of five years bore down his spirit now. [11]
- The dreadful day of torture ending in a harsh discord was at end; and behind it she looked back on a few blissful hours full of the promise of new happiness;--beyond these lay a long period of humiliation, the sequel of a terrible disaster. [10]
- I felt something of the same sense of humiliation and injury which one feels when he finds that a human stranger has been clandestinely inspecting him in his privacy and mentally commenting upon him. [5]
- The clear sight of the latter becomes dazzled by the glittering treasure, and they cannot but suffer continual humiliation, because, conscious of possessing power to obtain much, they wage an eager war for all, and therein are continually defeated. [10]
- Was he thinking of the fair listener in the cave, who was a witness to his humiliation? [10]
- For the sake of his love she would forgive much, but she could not forget the humiliation she had experienced. [10]
- For the humiliation of his family had been short-lived, the affront to Lady Haldwell nothing at all. [11]
- The wild throbbing of her heart impeded her breathing, and, in the indignation of her soul, she longed to escape fresh humiliation and to leave the festival. [10]
- Napoleon did not notice this expression; he treated Balashev not as an envoy from his enemy, but as a man now fully devoted to him and who must rejoice at his former master's humiliation. [2]
- As he now moved away from the main entrance, he asked himself why it was such torture to him to witness the humiliation of a being who had done him such a wrong, and whom he thought he hated and scorned so utterly. [10]
- These were the moments when the current was strongest, when she grew incandescent with humiliation and pain; when stray phrases in red letters of Brent's were illuminated. [9]
- And indeed, with many of us, it is humiliation and not conscience which makes the sting. [9]
- Many a Southern man cried out in his heart that his people had been robbed of their best friend in their humiliation and distress, when Abraham Lincoln was struck down. [7]
- Her hasty action made withdrawal impossible, but the humiliation which she had experienced through her was so hard to conquer that she could scarcely bring herself to feel grateful for a gift which, in itself, was certainly worthy of appreciation. [10]
- He had not long been lodged in the cell when there came a visit from Michael Clones, who stretched out his hands in an agony of humiliation. [11]
- Therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do appoint the last Thursday in September next as a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting for all the people of the nation. [7]
- Luigi's southern blood leaped to the boiling point in a moment under the sharp humiliation of this insult delivered in the presence of four hundred strangers. [5]
- He did not know that Natasha's soul was overflowing with despair, shame, and humiliation, and that it was not her fault that her face happened to assume an expression of calm dignity and severity. [2]
- The court tenders its sincere sympathy to the accused, and its deep regret that he, an innocent man, through an unfortunate mistake, has suffered the undeserved humiliation of imprisonment and trial. [5]
- The humiliation of it must have been great for Mr. Colfax. [9]
- I roused the indignation of your relations through your public humiliation, and so prepared the way for my plan. [10]
- It had nothing in store for her but humiliation and disappointment, arrows which, sent from the prison, pierced her to the heart, and a torturing fear which never gave her any peace, day or night. [10]
- The new hardness in her rejoiced that now the woman, if she had any heart at all, must have it bowed down by this supreme humiliation and wrung by the ugly tragedy of the hempen rope. [11]
- Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! [5]
- They imagined Dutchy's humiliation, when he should rise after a superhuman effort and find the place silent and vacant, nobody there to applaud. [5]
- She felt less humiliation, because, as it seemed to her, she had a right to ask of Iberville what no other woman could ask for her husband. [11]
- It is robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whisky. [5]
- But, oh, the humiliation of the whole thing! [4]
- The rage and humiliation grew less, his face cooled. [11]
- The fire of humiliation burned, but could not destroy their indomitable spirit. [9]
- He felt in his heart that a finer sense would have offered Guida no such humiliation, for he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. [11]
- Hendon observed to himself that it was hard enough to be sentenced to death in the full vigour of life, without having this peculiarly public humiliation added. [5]
- His brain told him that here before him was a woman into whose life he had brought its first ordeal and humiliation. [11]
- Yet he loved her; he felt deeply troubled by the thought of the severe humiliation which menaced her. [10]
- Ah, he will have a long and bitter account of wrong and humiliation to settle. [5]
- He was reaping hatred, scorn, and humiliation wherever he had hoped to win love and gratitude in the Netherlands. [10]
- The man you hate, he who is your inveterate enemy, who has every reason to exact from you the last tribute of humiliation, is Seigneur here! [11]
- Now that he had something to turn his energies to, a distinctly defined object to accomplish, the fog of humiliation and depression which had settled down upon his spirits lifted and blew away, and he raised his head and looked about him. [5]
- Unlike him, she had not kept his answer, when it came into her hands, but, tearing it up into fifty fragments, had thrown it into the waste- basket, and paced her room in shame, anger and humiliation. [11]
- They would have gone to be amused and that would have been a deep humiliation to you. [5]
- When she rose from her humiliation, her face was as one who has seen the rags of harlequinade stripped from that mummer Life, leaving only naked being. [11]
- Now he had found her at his desk, and, as if that were not humiliation enough, with one of his books taken down and laid open at his signature. [9]
- This was well, for how could the proud foreigner expose himself again to such humiliation. [10]
- For herself she expected nothing, felt absolved from every duty except the one of protecting herself and her name from dishonour and humiliation. [10]
- The brothers withdrew entirely from society, and nursed their humiliation in privacy. [5]
- She could not endure to make the Netherland maestro, who was kindly disposed toward her, and whom she honoured, a witness of her humiliation. [10]
- Where Psamtik had earned humiliation, I won success and glory. [10]
- No word of discontent, murmuring, or reviling was heard; nay, many looked with shame and humiliation at the new gift of the Most High. [10]
- If Cleopatra were defeated, and Egypt became a Roman province, a share in the business of the council, which was still addressed as "Macedonian men," and which was dear to Dion, could offer nothing but humiliation, and no longer afford satisfaction. [10]
- Don't cry so, dear, it breaks my old heart to see you, and think I've brought this humiliation on you and you so dear to me and so good. [5]
- Love was as dead as last year's leaves--so dead that no spirit of resentment, or humiliation, or pain of heart was in his breast at this sight of her again. [11]
- Aunt Polly blushed crimson with humiliation, and frowned and shook her head at Tom. [5]
- But he angrily closed his ears to these enticements, and felt it a humiliation that they dared to approach him. [10]
- Paula seemed invulnerable; but there was not a pang which Katharina would not gladly have given her to whom she owed the deepest humiliation her young life had ever known. [10]
- His exaltation had but one alloy--the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden--and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now. [5]
- He had resentment both for the old wife and himself, and he hated the pink milliner for the humiliation that she heaped upon them both. [11]
- It was long before he could pass his club windows without a pang of humiliation, or lift his hat to a lady of his acquaintance in her passing carriage without a vivid feeling of separateness from his old life. [4]
- Then, glancing round at the few persons who were sitting at the other end of the boat, he went on sadly: "To know that, a man must himself have been branded with the marks of his humiliation. [10]
- Had he been angry, had he been a man, how much humiliation he would have spared her! [9]
- Then she wept, and without intermission; as though she hoped with this flood of tears to wash away not only her recent humiliation, but with it all other sorrow from her mind. [10]
- Stafford understood Jasmine, and Stafford had insisted that he be not deceived by some revolt on the part of Jasmine, which would be the outcome of her own humiliation, of her own anger with herself for all the trouble she had caused. [11]
- The suffering, bitterness, and humiliation of his life in the North had done him good. [11]
- Besides, it had also darted into her mind that the baron might accompany her to her shabby abode, and that would have seemed like a humiliation. [10]
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