No sooner, however, has the knot been securely tied than Guiliom, appearing in his sooty rags and with smutched face, publicly demands and humiliates his haughty bride.

For the rest it is only necessary to look at the expense accounts of the Reparations Commissions to be convinced that this sad spectacle of greed and luxury humiliates the victors more than the conquered.

The collapse of Russian imperialism has made you safe if now you can get peace, and you can get a peace now that will neither destroy you nor humiliate you nor open up the prospect of fresh wars.

Then, of a sudden, with a poetic justice that is delicious, Italy turns around and humiliates the nation that was to take its place The whole comic situation resembles nothing more nearly than a supposedly defunct spouse rising from his death-bed to thrash the expectant second husband of his wife.

"I am ashamed, my boy, that you should have been a witness to my defeat: it humiliates, mortifies me!" "Don't let that worry you, father," said Stafford, scarcely knowing what he said, for the tumult in his brain, the dread at his heart.

This is why, having no hatred, she has no fear; this is why she is fraternal and maternal; this is why it is impossible to lessen her, impossible to humiliate her, impossible to irritate her; this is why, after so many ordeals, after so many catastrophes, after so many disasters, after so many calamities, after so many falls, incorruptible and invulnerable she holds out her hand to all the peoples from above.

("I must walk with care" ... end of speech), a strange discovery about himself which amazes and humiliates him.

Marie Antoinette took counsel with Mercy, and, by his advice, pointed out to her husband that to abandon the plan after it had been announced, in submission to an opposition which the princesses had no right to make, would be to humiliate her in the eyes of the whole court.

Of course Jefferson declined to appear before Marshall, through his Secretary of State, and finally, in February, 1803, Marshall gave judgment, in what was, without any doubt, the most anomalous opinion he ever delivered, in that it violated all judicial conventions, for, apparently, no object, save to humiliate a political opponent.

A woman estimable in all respects is too subduing, humiliates you too much, for you to love her long.

Women ingenious at raising obstacles, have attached a certain shame to any avowal of their passion, and whatever idea you men may have formed of our way of thinking, such an avowal always humiliates us, for however small may be our experience, we comprehend all the consequences.

If the accident which humiliates her had not happened, how she would have made the poor Chevalier suffer!

I do not know by what fatality, everything a beautiful woman tells one who is no longer beautiful, assumes in the mouth, an impression of a commiseration which breaks down the most carefully devised management, and humiliates her whom it is thought to console.

In Halliwell's "Nares" two instances of the transitive use of stoop ("to lower, humiliate") are given, and both are from Chapman.

It may be considered certain that he did all that he could to humiliate the equites; but the settlement of Italy was probably not due to him.

Pain humiliates men and audacity puffs them up.

she cried, as if the rule had been invented to humiliate her.

I tell you of this institution so minutely, to prove to you how wrong it is to provide charitable homes for the poor as we provide them,homes in which the charity always humiliates and degrades the individual.

What is the matter?' Even to recall my share in this interview with Mary Ispenlove humiliates me.

"Just," he said,"and it is that which humiliates.

Their humiliation humiliates me, even be they Prussians of the most offensive variety.

The poverty that simply humiliates and pinches can't be joked aboutit's far too serious for that!

I should consider it rather tragical, when a sovereign first humiliates us and then suddenly heaps amiabilities upon us.

It only humiliates me.

She has, as she has just said, a thought on her brain, she begs, she humiliates herself; our debts grow daily and up till now I have not done a single thing to help her.