Sophia (who though naturally all winning sweetness could when occasions demanded it call forth the Dignity of her sex) instantly put on a most forbidding look, and darting an angry frown on the undaunted culprit, demanded in a haughty tone of voice "Wherefore her retirement was thus insolently broken in on?" The unblushing Macdonald, without even endeavouring to exculpate himself from the crime he was charged with, meanly endeavoured to reproach Sophia with
ignobly defrauding him of his money .
Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been
ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.
But the man who ought to have spoken - the man who had such a chance as few men have off the stage - who could have confounded these villains in a breath, and saved the wretched Rattray at once from them and from himself - that unheroic hero remained
ignobly silent in his homely hiding-place.
How many thousands of people are there, women for the most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?--who are hospital nurses without wages--sisters of Charity, if you like, without the romance and the sentiment of sacrifice--who strive, fast, watch, and suffer, unpitied, and fade away
ignobly and unknown.
These specimens of native sculpture had crossed the sea in all directions, and been not
ignobly noticed among the crowded shipping of the Thames and wherever else the hardy mariners of New England had pushed their adventures.
'In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not
ignobly, Mrs.
I was cautious; not
ignobly, I think, for I felt that her knowledge of life was so small that in her unsophisticated vision there would be no reason why--since I seemed to pity her-- I should not look after her.
To these that sober Race of Men, whose lives Religious titl'd them the Sons of God, Shall yeild up all thir vertue, all thir fame
Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, (Erelong to swim at larg) and laugh; for which The world erelong a world of tears must weepe.
Half of a fife-rail had been shot through the foresail, and the sky made a patch of glorious blue in the
ignobly soiled canvas.
Valpo had problems, too, but their 15 turnovers were
ignobly topped by SIU's 19.
He does not really teach one anything, but by being brought into his presence one becomes something." Elsewhere, this solipsistic conflation lapses into unseemly self-pity: "Certainly, no man ever fell so
ignobly, and by such ignoble instruments, as I did," he moaned.
He has never disrespected me but I disagree with the way he is leading the Yoruba
ignobly. He knows enough not to be in alliance with Buhari from the word go.