163 adjectives to describe shames

Grace had invariably thwarted all her schemes by her obstinacy; and as she thought young Moseley really attached to her, she determined by a bold stroke to remove the impediments of false shame, and the dread of repulse, which she believed alone kept the youth from an avowal of his wishes, and get rid at once of a plague that had annoyed her not a littleher daughter's delicacy.

I have this day heard thee doom the innocent to death and bitter shame, and, lord, as God seeth us, it is enough!"

" "What an infernal shame!"

Here sits the priest, and faint and low, Like the sighing of an evening breeze, Comes through these painted lattices The ceaseless sound of human woe, Here, while her bosom aches and throbs With deep and agonizing sobs, That half are passion, half contrition, The luckless daughter of perdition Slowly confesses her secret shame!

"Thet one thar is sore hurtedit's a damn shame.

Or would it crush us into the very earth with utter shame and humiliation, full and awful knowledge of how weak and foolish, sinful and unworthy we were?as it does to Gerontius in the poem, when he dreams that, after death, he demanded, rashly and ambitiously, to see our Lord, and had his wish.

" "Yes," sighed the brother; "it is a cruel shame.

"Well, I call that a beastly shame.

It's a damned shame!"

If all were to be related concerning the little shame they have, it would be bordering on impropriety; therefore it is better to suppress it.

Oh, I had forgot thou art a modest Rogue, and to thy eternal Shame, hadst never the Reputation of a MistressLord, Lord, that I could see thee address thy self to a LadyI fancy thee a very ridiculous Figure in that Posture, by Fortune.

Travers says the doctor has sent for Oaks and old Ally; it'll be an awful shame if they get into a row.

Now hereupon Beltane knew sudden shame and swift remorse, and bowed his head also, and would have prayedyet could not; wherefore his black mood deepened and his anger grew more bitter.

In order rang'd, with date of place and time, Each owner's name, his parentage and crime, High on his walls, inscribed to glorious shame, Unnumber'd halters gibbet him to Fame.

"Our everlasting shame, then," he replied quietly.

Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded that her maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.

Oh! let us who are coming to lay our gift upon God's altar at this approaching Christmas tide, consider whether our brother hath aught against us in any of these matters, and, if so, let us leave our gift upon the altar, and be first reconciled to our brother, in heart at least, and with inward shame, and confession, and contrition, and resolution to amend.

" "I say it's a rotten shame," broke out Sue, and she repeated, "Ralph's too good for her.

A foul shame on ye! is it you that knock'd? WAR.

In discussing this matter, therefore, though overwhelmed with a maiden shame, she was not reserved.

Fidelity (integrity) is your own, virtuous shame is your own; who then can take these things from you?

As the majority, however, pronounced it "a dirty shame," and spoke of the author as "some mean skunk," the poet wisely concluded to conceal his identity, and by the end of the week the matter was, for the time being, practically forgotten.

All three girls, though they had passed Government examinations in French to any extent, were stricken with a dumb shame of their accents, and the young man was very useful.

"I think it's a darned shame to spring the beef hunt so it will interfere with the Rodeo," Bert grumbled, "and us have to be out on the hills wrangling steers while the celebration is going on!"

I cannot, for mere shame, Feast beside men whose eyes have tears in them.

163 adjectives to describe  shames