"Well, of all the extraordinary" began a voice, ruminatingly, and broke short off, as if abashed at its own infraction of the silence.

"Excellency," he stammered in Russian, "the castle is surroundedthey will kill usthey will burn us out" He stopped abashed before Paul's pointing finger and stony face.

" Now, although Little John had been somewhat abashed in the Queen's bower, he felt himself the sturdy fellow he was when the soles of his feet pressed green grass again; so he said boldly, "Now, blessings on thy sweet face, say I. An there lived a man that would not do his best for theeI will say nought, only I would like to have the cracking of his knave's pate!

It was justly expected that the illiterate presumption which had so long deterred poetical genius from approaching the stage, would have shrunk abashed from before him; but he either felt not the importance of the duty he had been called to perform, or, what is more probable, yielding to the allurements of the moment, forgot that duty, in the amusement which he derived from the talents and peculiarities of the players.

Since our Persons are not of our own Making, when they are such as appear Defective or Uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable Fortitude to dare to be Ugly; at least to keep our selves from being abashed with a Consciousness of Imperfections which we cannot help, and in which there is no Guilt.

" Dante stood as silent and abashed as a sorry child.

He was, indeed, so abashed by this outbreak that he merely stole a glance at her face and then studied the fire again.

I went in softly, and stood behind mother's chair, slightly abashed for a moment in the presence of the partysome eight or ten ladies, dressed in black levantine, or cinnamon-colored silks, who were seated in rocking-chairs, all the rocking-chairs in the house having been carried to the parlor for the occasion.

The man was the taller, as Mr. Lincoln had thought; and he went away evidently more abashed at the idea that he dared be taller than the President of the United States than that he had dared to venture into his presence.

He was slow of comprehending them: and they slunk as it were abashed out of his society.

"Scramble" felt greatly abashed over this unexpected kind treatment, and never again had the heart to pilfer peaches from old Doctor Schroeder.

In the depth of my unknowledge I felt I could not claim to be even a tyro, and was duly abashed beneath the penetrating eye.

" "Daggers and dirks!" exclaimed Katherine, more abashed than ever.

He stands not upon what he borrowed of his ancestors, but thinks he must work out his own honour: and if he cannot reach the virtue of them that gave him outward glory by inheritance, he is more abashed of his impotency than transported with a great name.

The botanist bride was not in the least abashed during the ceremony.