176 collocations for disgrace

It is the least return she can make for having disgraced the family, to be of some use in it now.

As a prisoner to the basest of mankind, as victim to the most ferocious monsters that have ever disgraced humanity, she has ever commanded, and she will never cease to command, the sympathy and admiration of every generous mind.

How is the representation from this quarter on the present question?" Mr. Imlay, in his early history of Kentucky, p. 185, says: "We have disgraced the fair face of humanity, and trampled upon the sacred privileges of man, at the very moment that we were exclaiming against the tyranny of your (the English) ministry.

You'd think no fools disgraced the former reign, Did not some grave examples yet remain, Who scorn a lad should teach his father skill, And, having once been wrong, will be so still.

The ambition of excelling in conversation, and that pride of victory, which, at times, disgraced a man of Johnson's genius, were, perhaps, native blemishes.

The Lupercalia would not have missed its proper reverence, but you disgraced the whole city at once,not to speak a word yet about your remarks on that occasion.

Such a bunch of imbecility never disgraced a country.

Until better arguments can be produced than sophisms which disgrace the cause, this desire itself must remain the strongest and the only presumption that eternity is the inheritance of every thinking being.'

"Fingal," Macpherson himself accommodatingly pointed out, "exercised every manly virtue in Caledonia while Heliogabalus disgraced human nature in Rome."

Nor was slavery at Colosse, it seems, supported by such barbarous usages, such horrid laws as disgrace the South.

I'm not going to turn my back before the enemyI would disgrace my button if I did.'

He had also incurred the displeasure of the Bristol electors by his manly defence of the rights of the Irish Catholics, who since the conquest of William III. had been subjected to the most unjust and annoying treatment that ever disgraced a Protestant government.

Yet I will strive to make my hand less aukward look; I would not willingly disgrace thee, my neat book!

The Charlotte Observer has the following editorial concerning some white troops that passed through Charlotte, N.C.: "Mustered-out West Virginia and New York volunteer soldiers who passed through this city Saturday night, behaved on the train and here like barbarians, disgracing their uniforms, their States and themselves.

It must not however, be forgotten, that these were the times also, when an infinity of superstitious of every description disgraced the Roman world; although it would have appeared a necessary consequence, that their prevalency should have been checked by the increasing determination of learning and science.

To considerations such as these, it is reasonable to impute that anxiety of the Spaniards, from which the importance of this island is inferred by Junius, one of the few writers of his despicable faction, whose name does not disgrace the page of an opponent.

We could never have such a movement as disgraced France in December.

Instructors had been provided to initiate him in all the arts and pursuits cultivated by the warriors of those days, and even in his twelfth year accounts were forwarded to Pírán of several wonderful feats which he had performed. Then smiled the good old man, and joyful said: "'Tis ever thusthe youth of royal blood Will not disgrace his lineage, but betray By his superior mien and gallant deeds From whence he sprung.

I could paint a fresco that would less disgrace the room.

] There is yet another class of testimony quite as pertinent as the foregoing, which may at any time be gleaned from the newspapers of the slave statesthe advertisements of masters for their runaway slaves, and casual paragraphs coldly relating cruelties, which would disgrace a land of Heathenism.

But it must also be confessed that it became the source of much dissension and party feeling, and led to that display of bigotry and intolerance that eventually disgraced the Christian profession of the men of Massachusetts.

What I'm afraid of is myself, of my nerve cracking, of my doing something that will disgrace the Regiment.

They have betrayed the Constitution and disgraced their position.

The man was plainly cornered and seemed to be divided between a desire to let Gifford go on and place himself in a dangerous situation, and the more expedient course of raising a scandal which would touch him as well as disgrace his dead brother.

He knew that the same doom had been threatened towards his saintly master, for opposing and exposing the scandalous vices which disgraced the high places of the Church; so that, on the whole, when he heard that this young man was excommunicated, so far from being impressed with horror towards him, he conceived the idea that he might be a particularly honest fellow and good Christian.

176 collocations for  disgrace