Do we say shame or ashamed

shame 5571 occurrences

Campbell says it's a shame of me, and so it is one, I suppose; but how beautiful you have made the garden look!" "Lucia is very fond of gardening," said Elsley, who was very fond of it also, and had great taste therein; but he was afraid to confess any such tastes before a man who, he thought, would not understand him.

It was written in an age when the morals of our class (more shame to us) were on the same level with the morals of her class now.

Willis seemed either doubtful of the success of his deputation, or not over desirous thereof; for, after trying to put John Beer forward as spokesman, he began: "I'm sorry to trouble you, sir, but these young men will have it soand no shame to themon a matter which I think will come to nothing.

For Baalzebub is a sunny fiend; and loves not storm and tempest, thunder, and lashing rains; but the broad bright sun, and broad blue sky, under which he can take his pastime merrily, and laugh at all the shame and agony below; and, as he did at his great banquet in New Orleans once, madden all hearts the more by the contrast between the pure heaven above and the foul hell below.

"You are a creature without shame!"

Presently she asked, "What has induced you to put me to shame?"

In order to save himself from exposure and shame, Debendra Babu got Abdullah to administer powerful drugs to the woman.

" "Damn shame," Charlie said.

I did hang my head in shame, not because she had convinced me that I had done wrong, but because I was hurt by the first sharp word she had ever given me.

The shame and embarrassment which the whole situation gave me caused me to stop at the gate.

It is hard to deal with the oddities of humor, however carefully, without casual slips that may offend or shame the reverential or the sensitive.

MARGARET I in his presence needs must blush for shame.

"For shame!" You are forsooth entitled to exclaim; We to chaste ears it seems must not pronounce What, nathless, the chaste heart cannot renounce.

still young art thou, Art not discreet enough, I trow, Thou dost thy matters ill; Let this in confidence be said: Since thou the path of shame dost tread, Tread it with right good will!

Could I but reach thy wither'd frame, Thou wretched beldame, void of shame!

What deed of shame Lurks in thy sinful heart? Is thy prayer utter'd for thy mother's soul, Who into long, long torment slept through thee?

sin and shame Remain not hidden!

No trinket, but hath wrought some woman's shame, No weapon but hath cut some sacred tie, Or from behind hath stabb'd an enemy.

He may exalt in crime and shame, Who on accomplices depends; Guilty!

That Shame and Beauty ne'er together, hand in hand, Their onward way pursue, earth's verdant path along.

Deep-rooted in these twain dwelleth an ancient grudge, So that, where'er they happen on their way to meet, Upon her hated rival turneth each her back; Then onward speeds her course with greater vehemence, Shame filled with sorrow, Beauty insolent of mood, Till her at length embraces Orcus' hollow night, Unless old age erewhile her haughtiness hath tamed.

Lend thine ear; To thine experience I must tell, With thrust on thrust, what wounds my heart; To bear it is impossible Nor can I, without shame, impart:

The prophet Obadiah brings the following charge against treacherous Edom, which is precisely applicable to this guilty nation:"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall come over thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Let him know, as he must one day with shame and terror own, that whoever holds slaves is himself responsible for the relation, into which, whether reluctantly or willingly, he thus enters.

They are felt in the uneasiness and conscious degradation of the slave, and in the shame and remorse which the master betrays in his reluctant and desperate efforts to defend himself.

ashamed 3886 occurrences

She was astonished and almost ashamed at it, and nevertheless she returned for Vespers on purpose to see the Curé.

He was ashamed of his fears and leant his head out to catch the beneficent shower.

I am truly ashamed, she murmured, yes, truly ashamed to disturb you at such an hour.

I am truly ashamed, she murmured, yes, truly ashamed to disturb you at such an hour.

I am ashamed of it, and angry with myself, but I must-confess it.

Like all persons ashamed of having been caught, he put himself in a passion.

Ashamed of himself, he recalled with a blush the hand he had kissed in a moment of frenzy, which must have let Suzanne suspect what was the plague which consumed his heart, and he would have sacrificed ten years of his life to become again what he was in the eyes of this young girl, hardly a month ago; only a stranger.

I hardly know if I ought to tell you that, I am quite ashamed of it.

Ah! sir, if you knew how ashamed I was.

what a disgraceful figure they cut, and are ashamed of it.

In the evening we cried over "David Copperfield" till we were ashamed.

I am sometimes ashamed of the time I consume in writing invitations and other matters connected with party-givingquite as much as John takes to think of speeches, which affect the welfare of so many thousands.

At times I almost wish I could throw away all that is honest and pure and upright, as useless and inconvenient rubbish of which I am half ashamed.

I am ashamed and sick of such things, and should think my country no longer worth caring for, but for those brave men who have gone off to fight for her with a spirit worthy of themselves, and but for those lower classes in which Frederick tells me to put my faith....

I thought my days of caring for popular applause were over, but there was something so much higher than usual in the meaning of the cheers that greeted John whenever he showed himself, that I was not ashamed of being quite delighted.

You tell the truth, and keep a brave, kind heart, and never listen to or say anything you wouldn't have your mother or sister hear, and you'll never feel ashamed to come home, or we to see you.

I am sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment than led by devotion into solitude.

Besides, if she bought back the bag, she would always be ashamed to use it under the eyes of Kate.

The young lady conveying in dumb show how platonic has been her attachment, of which, nevertheless, she seems a little ashamed.

Then, seizing her in a bearlike embrace, the Irishwoman whispered: "It is downright ashamed of myself you've made me; and if I don't do better in future, then my name is not Juliana Kathleen M'Crawney, and never has been!" "Good-bye!

Should thy lies make men hold their peace, and when thou mockest shall no man make thee ashamed?" (Job xi. 2, 3.)

Does that fall foul of any arrangement of yours?" "Oh, nothing of any importance," I replied hastily, deeply ashamed of the momentary change of countenance that my friend had been so quick to observe.

She led Susy away gently, but firmly, into another part of the garden, where spying her grandfather, she took the unwilling and ashamed little girl for him to deal with, and ran hack to the crying children and ruined grotto.

I am ashamed to say it, but I have lived so long in lodgings that I see nothing of what is done in the kitchen.

" In another series of charges, whose exact date is not ascertained, but whose language and orthography indicate their antiquity, it is said: "Ye shall ordain the wisest to be Master of the work; and neither for love nor lineage, riches nor favor, set one over the work who hath but little knowledge, whereby the Master would be evil served, and ye ashamed.

Do we say   shame   or  ashamed