What a pretty heritage to hand down to posterity such a disgrace will be!

"Disgrace, and perhaps ruin, was the certain consequence of attempting the latter.

A State institution ought to be considered the pride, not the shame of the State; and if we falsify such institutions, the disgrace is ours, not theirs.

The disgrace is breakfast enough for me.

That he felt so keenly the disgrace (?) of "having been reduced to appear as a player" was, no doubt, a sentiment intended for the exclusive ear of the great lexicographer, whose prejudice against the stage and its followers was strong to the point of absurdity.

He was a proud man, and this 'disgrace' of Jim's, as he said, was the finishing touch.