27 collocations for abject
They delivered the Hebrew nation when it had sunk to abject submission under the kings of Syria, and when its glory and strength alike had departed.
He represents the civilization of Mexico struggling against the unreined savagery of a population which has known no law but abject fear, and having lost that fear and the restraint which it imposed upon it, threatens to deliver Mexico to such a reign of anarchy, rapine, and terror as would be without a parallel in modern history.
" The prosperity of the poor peasant was soon on the wane, and before long he was reduced to abject poverty.
You had no idea, sir, that a living man could be made so abject a slave of Satan," he said, with a ghastly groan and a shudder.
It was however abundantly certain, that she pursued intrigues with other men; and what is still more surprising, not without the knowledge of her husband, who had either too abject a spirit to resent it; or was bribed by some lucrative advantage, to which, he had a mind mean enough to stoop.
But to little purpose, sir, did our minister implore the compassion of the Spaniards, and represent the benefits by which we might claim it; for his compliance was by the subtle Spaniards attributed, not to kindness, but to fear; and it was therefore determined to reduce him to absolute slavery, by the same practices which had already sunk him to so abject a state.
Its great owl's eyes were instinct with nothing but abject terror of everybody and everything; and it was a miracle that ere the voyage was over it did not die of mere fright.
Soudain du plus profond des nuits, sur la nuée, Une bête difforme, affreuse, exténuée, Un être abject et sombre, un pourceau, s'éleva; Ouvrant un oeil sanglant qui cherchait Jéhovah; La nuée apporta le porc dans la lumière, A l'endroit même où luit l'unique sanctuaire, Le saint des saints, jamais décru, jamais accru; Et le porc murmura:Grâce!
And with a tearful last farewell, he turned away up the street, leaving Lancelot to gaze at his slow, painful steps, and abject, earth-fixed mien.
To consult the Preservation of Life, as the only End of it, To make our Health our Business, To engage in no Action that is not part of a Regimen, or course of Physick, are Purposes so abject, so mean, so unworthy human Nature, that a generous Soul would rather die than submit to them.
Driven by injustice to a solitary life, to abject penury, to despair, the solitary miser, gloating over his gold pieces,which he has saved by the hardest privation, and in which he trusts,finds himself robbed, without redress or sympathy; but in the end he is consoled for his loss in the love he bestows on a helpless orphan, who returns it with the most noble disinterestedness, and lives to be his solace and his pride.
While pretending to be the devoted friend and even abject servant of Captain Wentworth, he was seeking, in every way, and on every hand, secretly to undermine him.
We do not suffer so abject slavery to the definite article as the French, but neither do we manifest their spirit of rebellion by sometimes cutting off the oppressor's tail.
Soudain du plus profond des nuits, sur la nuée, Une bête difforme, affreuse, exténuée, Un être abject et sombre, un pourceau, s'éleva; Ouvrant un oeil sanglant qui cherchait Jéhovah; La nuée apporta le porc dans la lumière, A l'endroit même où luit l'unique sanctuaire, Le saint des saints, jamais décru, jamais accru; Et le porc murmura:Grâce!
Such a scene is the third act of The Gay Lord Quex, a prolonged and thrilling duel, in which Sophy Fullgarney passes by degrees from impertinent exultation to abject surrender and then springs up again to a mood of reckless defiance.
One, whom, instead of banishing a day, You should have plumed of all his borrowed honours, And let him see what abject things they are, Whom princes often love without desert.
And abject thrall, in flesh's frail attire, That he for him might pay sin's deadly hire, And him restore unto that happy state In which he stood before his hapless fate.
He accompanied William to England as his chaplain.] Crew, Bishop of Durham, was as abject a tool as possible.
Despite his subsequent surrender to Krishna, and abject worship of him, Indra is still incensed and bluntly refuses.
There might conceivedly be interests in the world worthy of so abject an absorption, so bleaching an obeisance of the individual; but Henry, with the dews of certain classics still upon him, remembered that anything really Olympian in its importance is always strong enough to smile.
That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection, and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex, and doomed for the most part to disease and abject wretchedness and an early death, appears in every eye as the perpetual symbol of the degradation and sinfulness of man.
Oh, you ass!you abject ass!
Low may he bow, not with loss, but with access of dignity, who bows with an elevated and ascending heart: there is nothing loftier, nothing less allied to abject behavior, than this grand lowliness.
First was the knowledge that he was lying flat on his back, on a couch, it seemed; then, that he was in the darkan utter, abject darkness.
Don't you understand that after he has been so kind, I hate the feeling that I have been so abject a failure?" Stella smiled a little bitterly.