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Sentences starting with shame

Shame seized her; yes, and anger; and shame again at the remembrance of her talk with Euphrasia--and anger once more. [9]
Shame has come to the house of a servant of the Lord, and there must be purging. [11]
Shame for consenting to keep his unearned titles, property, and privileges--at the expense of other people; shame for consenting to remain, on any terms, in dishonourable possession of these things, which represented bygone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general people of the nation. [5]
Shame seized him that he had let passion be his master, that he had lost his self-control, had taken a revenge out of all proportion to the injury and insult to himself. [11]
Shame surged in Stephen's face that he should have misjudged him. [9]
Shame and grief overcame her. [4]
Shame prevented him from applying to them for occupation, and besides he very well knew that to those who knew him his idle career was no recommendation. [4]
Shame of shames and horror of horrors--with Jethro Bass! [9]
Shame upon you! [10]

Sentences ending with shame

Ah, I see your shame. [13]
Then again: If you love her, and she loves you, and is sorry for what she has done, marry her and save her from everlasting shame. [11]
Because a woman would suffer an unmerited scandal and shame. [11]
Death had come with sorrow and unmerited shame. [11]
Meantime, the new wisdom had come to me, and I read it with shame. [5]
And he hearkened unmoved when I told him what Ann had said: "That she was ready to follow him to death, but not to shame. [10]
The thought of Tom's treatment of her when she was talking about her picnic came scorching back and filled her with shame. [5]
If it is to be shame, then let it be shame. [11]
I was not thinking of the man, or caring for him, I was flying from my shame. [11]
If I had, there would have been for her the double shame. [11]

Short sentences using shame

It's the shame to her. [11]
It was a shame. [5]
Yes, I say shame! [10]
More shame if I do! [6]
For shame, sir, for shame! [2]
Fire, and blood, and shame! [11]
Then shame came. [9]
It's a shame. [4]
And the shame! [4]
What a shame! [10]

Sentences containing shame two or more times

A thrust of the point, and in an instant gone, and no one to know, no one to discover, no one to add blame to blame, to pile shame upon shame. [11]
You put a shame upon him, hiding who his father and his father's people were, and you put a shame upon her that lies in the graveyard--as sweet a lass, as good, as ever lived on earth. [11]
But it were shame that a king should know fear, and shame that belted knight should withhold his hand where be such as need succor. [5]
I have been carried by the hands of the old men of my people, I have ridden the horses of the young men: their shame is my shame. [11]
By Josh and by Joan, but it's a shame, a dirty shame, it is! [11]

More example sentences with the word shame in them

More shame for you, mother, I was going to say. [12]
He was progressing, you see--the moral fear of shame had risen superior to the physical fear of harm. [5]
I might shame you before these great per--" "Father! [5]
Pardon, if I wrong Those heavenly words that shame my earthly song! [6]
I'll take the wrong of this now, sir, and such shame as there is in that falsehood on my shoulders. [11]
Forgive the past-the wrong of it, the shame of it. [11]
Why should we without shame help the nation lie, and then be ashamed to do a little lying on our own account? [5]
I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
Al'mah's face flushed with anger and shame at the thing she saw, and a weakness came over her, as though the springs of life had been suddenly emptied. [11]
He could have wished secrecy for Delia Gasgoyne, and for his grandfather and grandmother,--he was not wilfully brutal,--but otherwise he had no shame at all; he would stand openly for his right. [11]
The woman, Kate Wimper, who had helped to send two people to their graves, would now drink the dregs of shame, if she was capable of shame--would be robbed of her happiness, if so be she loved Rube Haman. [11]
Frantic with fury, wild with rage and shame, he snatched the dagger from his belt. [10]
To tell the whole truth is to bring fresh shame upon Mrs. Llyn and her daughter, and not to tell the whole truth is to take away my one chance of getting out of this trouble. [11]
As before, a white man sat with supreme indifference at a table, and in front of him three most unhappy chiefs squatted in the grass, the shame of their irons hidden under the blanket folds. [9]
With a throb which was an exquisite pain, she understood now the compassion in Austen's eyes, and she saw so simply and so clearly why he had not told her that her face burned with the shame of her demand. [9]
His youthful mind, which easily received fresh impressions, forgot the deeds of blood and shame which stained the soul of this pitiable wretch. [10]
Of course, Mr. Wetmore's spoken to him about you, and it's a shame that he hasn't been near us. [8]
The lad's cheeks were glowing with shame and anger, for the clerk of the muster-rolls and paymaster had laughed in his face, when he expressed his desire to become a Lansquenet. [10]
When, however, the weighted body divided the water with a swingeing sound, her face suddenly suffused, as though shame had touched her or some humiliating idea had come. [11]
Only one thing was perfectly clear to her: she would rather starve and die of thirst, and shame, and misery-nay, she would rather be the instrument of her own death, than return to her husband. [10]
An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time. [2]
Her own, mercifully, was in the shadow, and burning now with a shame that was insupportable. [9]
No, even Cauchon was ashamed to lay that monstrosity before her; even he had a remnant of shame in him, away down deep, a million fathoms deep, and that remnant asserted itself now and prevailed. [5]
I think it was a shame to serve me so. [5]
She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation. [5]
Of all the villains who have brought shame upon the throne and name of mighty Caesar, this is the most dastardly. [10]
I burned with vicarious shame as Krebs stood there awkwardly, his hand still holding the desk. [9]
With that conviction Venters felt a shame throughout his body, and it marked the rekindling of fierce anger and ruthlessness. [13]
This some of us undoubtedly did, to our shame be it said. [9]
Let him grow up as Heaven wills, and if he perishes in want and shame, if he is put in the pillory or dies on the scaffold, one mission at least will be left for me. [10]
It would be unworthy of her even to repeat such slander, and the color surged again into her face for very shame of her anger. [9]
Lyman urged, pleaded, tried to shame us, but it had no effect. [5]
Pain and shame travelled to the farthest recesses of his nature. [11]
They are as transparent as plate glass, and their coloring would shame the richest sky that ever bent over Italy. [5]
When Dyck had told her first, she had shivered with anger and shame--but anger and shame had gone. [11]
But they went to wreck and ruin under us and brought us to shame before all the passengers. [5]
After having yielded to some temptation we feel a sense of dissatisfaction, shame, repentance, or remorse, analogous to the feelings caused by other powerful instincts or desires, when left unsatisfied or baulked. [1]
And I shame to say it, my own daughter prevents me from obtaining the money to keep us out of the Fleet. [9]
Your nephew is to marry her sister; let her be swallowed up--a shame behind the veil, the sweet litany of the cloister. [11]
It does good to make the innocent feel the terror and shame of sin. [11]
So I had to keep still several hours day after day, though I confess, to my shame, that I remember nothing about the sittings except having eaten some particularly good candied fruit. [10]
That spectacle went to his own heart, and in his pain and shame he would have given worlds to have those unkind words back. [5]
She felt thankful to him for the shelter he was affording her, but often said to herself, "It's a shame to let him see in my cryings a reproach--as if he could ever do anything that could make me reproach him! [5]
Nay, we cease to feel shame when we have lived to feel such profound contempt for the world. [10]
It has nothing to do with ugliness or beauty, or fortune or misfortune, or shame or happiness, or sin or holiness. [11]
Is it love to a woman when you break all the commandments, and shame her and bring her down to where you are--a bad vaurien? [11]
He answered the thought: "From ten years of pain and slow recovery from an accident, and then from nineteen years' pollution, shame, depravity, crime, ending with death at the hands of the executioner. [5]
You would have thought it no shame to have said so to your own father. [11]
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]
There can, I think, be no doubt that a dog feels shame, as distinct from fear, and something very like modesty when begging too often for food. [1]
It was the thing that never dies, the love that defies injury, shame, crime, deceit, and desertion, and lives pityingly on, knowing all, enduring all, desiring no touch, no communion, yet prevailing--the indestructible thing. [11]
History will brand these men with shame for all time. [9]
Well, at least there would be no more lying, no more brutalising inward shame. [11]
And over us there curves the infinite Blue heaven as a shield, and at the end We shall find One who loveth to befriend E'en those who faint for shame within His sight. [11]
Suddenly one of them was thrown sharply back, with a determined gesture, the head was raised,--and.--and his shame was for gotten. [9]
No, no, no, thee said to me what thee said to others, and will say again without shame. [11]
In any case the words ran along the line, and were carried up in a shout amid the crackling of the brushwood: "Where was the shame of it, Where was the blame of it, William Connor dear? [11]
But dark as the Widow looked in her half-concealed pet, she was but as a pale shadow, compared to Elsie in her silent concentration of shame and anger. [6]
To live as the son of such a father was too pitiless a shame. [11]
She bear all the shame, all the pain, for the crime of you. [11]
Rostov still had the same indefinite feeling, as of shame. [2]
We therefore, by the royal Will and command, pronounce sentence, that both the ears of Gaumata be cut off, for the honor of the righteous and shame of the impure. [10]
He sprang across the open circle and confronted the officer in charge, crying-- "For shame! [5]
Twenty sets formed, the music struck up, and then--I placed my hands before my face for very shame. [5]
He hated Philip the man, but he hated still more Philip the usurper who had brought shame to the escutcheon of Bercy. [11]
He had swallowed the insult, stuttered his thanks to the jeering laugh of the lank bully, and had gone home and cried in shame and rage. [11]
So this was the end of it all--friendship gone with the man before him; shame come to the woman he loved; misery to every one; a home-life shattered; and from the souls of three people peace banished for evermore. [11]
That Dilworthy had the effrontery to offer such a resolution will surprise no one, and that the Senate could entertain it without blushing and pass it without shame will surprise no one. [5]
It should make the Council of Ten and the Council of Three turn in their graves for shame, to see how little they knew about satanic concentrations of irresponsible power. [5]
At this thought the blood surged up in him with rage and shame. [10]
Behind them was the blank failure of a life--fifteen years of miserable torture, of degradation, of a daily descent lower into the pit, of the servitude of shame. [11]
You were saying that you were robbed--and it was a shame, too--but it appears by what is left of the shroud you have on that it was a costly one in its day. [5]
Who can doubt that the refusal to fight a duel through fear has caused many men an agony of shame? [1]
It's a shame that such people should be allowed to. [10]
It was like that of some strong fate, superior to all influences of sorrow, shame, or death. [11]
When it seemed that Mrs. Falchion would bring a great trouble and shame into Roscoe's life, I determined to use the secret. [11]
The thought of that moment stung him with confusion and shame. [4]
There are things that a woman should not mention, and yet I would tell them without shame to your face were it not for your sister. [9]
About half the talk was--"It is a burning shame that Howells isn't here. [5]
See the prisoners taking their places between the ranks, some smiling, as if to say all is not over yet; some with heads hung down, in sulky shame. [9]
Hot shame was surging in her face. [9]
No amount of suffering can bring down the pride of a Moor or make him shame his dignity with a cry. [5]
There was no such shame here as had fallen on him seven years ago. [11]
The nature and strength of the feelings which we call regret, shame, repentance or remorse, depend apparently not only on the strength of the violated instinct, but partly on the strength of the temptation, and often still more on the judgment of our fellows. [1]
She looked me straight in the eyes and said: "Dr. Marmion, a man must not expect to be forgiven, who has brought shame on a woman. [11]
But a man stopped them and brought them back and told them it was a shame to leave me in such distress. [5]
Drops of sweat stood on his brow, and with sudden shame he snatched up his garments that were lying on the ground, and covered his naked limbs. [10]
On the somewhat specious plea that Holy Writ might have a chastening effect, she was permitted to minister to me in my shame. [9]
The Chevalier was speaking most earnestly: "To a nunnery--a piteous shame! [11]
I had read something like that before, and did not shame my judgment by believing a word of it. [5]
I believe that some time it will be impossible that a woman shall be forced to make shirts at six cents apiece, with the gaunt figures of starvation or a life of shame waiting at the door. [4]
She had not so shame fully offended the Emperor, but the lover, and it was his place to entreat her not to withdraw the love which made him happy. [10]
You ought to sink into the earth for shame of the sin you have committed. [10]
It was a sin and a shame, but his own crew had set it on fire, and it sank before his eyes. [10]
It is a sin and a shame how the rogues ply their trade, even close under the walls of the city! [10]
Though Wyndham's heart sickened within him, his lips did not frame a word of reproach; but a blush of shame came into his face, and crept up to his eyes, dimming them. [11]
Then the door shut upon me, and though I am no Catholic, I have no shame in saying that I kissed the feet on the crucifix which her lips had blessed. [11]
She hesitated about showing it to Mrs. Fletcher, and when she did, and gave her the check, it was with a sense of shame. [4]
If that isn't sheer folly and a sin and a shame. [10]
She was delighted, she showed it to her brothers and sisters, and laid it by the statues of her ancestors; but I was miserable with shame and penitence, and at last I secretly took away the stone, and threw it into the water. [10]

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