My mother won't like to see me dishonoured, sir," he continued, with his voice failing; "and I know she will pay these accounts.

Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine!

[I have never thoroughly understood the painful anxiety of people to be shielded against the dishonouring suspicion of not rightly appreciating pictures, even when the very phrases they use betray their ignorance and insensibility.

No, child of fortune and inconstancy, Thou shalt not train me, or induce my love To loose desires or dishonoured thoughts.

Nay, so injudicious and impudent together will they sometimes be, that the Almighty Himself is often in danger of being dishonoured by these indiscreet and horrid Metaphor-mongers.

After which we avoided passing that way; for the place was not less dreadful to her than to me; she acknowledged it made her remember what we had heard of the great burying-pit in Aldgate, and the dishonoured corpses that were flung into it, heaps upon heaps.

"If that be so, then art thee bound to prove her innocent, that I may not say to all the world, thee mightest have put her honour to the test and dared notchoosing rather to cheat thyself and be cheated by her, than know thyself dishonoured.

And he leaves it to his two uncles to decide, if you even should be married, whether there be not room to believe, that his sister was first dishonoured; and if so, to judge of the title she will have to their favour, or to the forgiveness of any of her family.

No, all the gods require it, they are dishonoured in him.

Oh, how much franker it would have been to yield to force than to lend himself to its dishonouring compromises!

Carlo refused her both bed and board, and, in the spring of 1578, he forced her into the Franciscan convent of San Onofrio da Folignoa favourite place of sanctuary for dishonoured gentlewomen!

The market was flooded with the dishonoured paper of all these concerns, and mercantile confidence in the great publishing houses was almost at an end.

I say, I found this peasant in her closet Kissing, imbracing, and dishonouring her.

One night the Lady Anne fled in terror from the Towerfled from the dishonouring addresses of her sovereign, now grown gross in his cups, however brave in battle.

It is a dishonouring view of nature.

By way of preparation for war, Wang Mang sent a mission to the Hsiung-nu with dishonouring proposals, including changes in the name of the Hsiung-nu and in the title of the shan-yü.

Oh, my friends, believe me, if any sin of man can add a fresh thorn to Christ's crown, it is to see men, under pretence of honouring him, dishonouring his Father.

While Louis was, to use the words of Mézeray, thus "dishonouring his mother and his brother," and depriving them of the very means of subsistence, he was overwhelming the Cardinal de Richelieu alike with honours and with riches.

'I have come here, Charles, to ask what you mean by disgracing yourself and dishonouring my name.

Alma's father was not utterly dishonoured in his sight.

"It is you who are dishonouring our Lord," he said.

"England will be dishonoured otherwise!"

I have been too long dyingnot dead, and dishonouring God by 'a doubtful mind.'

We have both honoured and dishonoured our parents, who, in their turn, had done the same by theirs.

Oh, Monument of Shame to this our time, Dishonouring record to thy Mother Clime! Hail, Grave of Rousseau!