Which preposition to use with ashamed
I must borrow that saying of the eloquent Messala Corvinus, I am ashamed of my authority.
I could only follow suit, though I was black ashamed at the whole business.
Oh no; no movie for me with you snorin' through the picture till I'm ashamed for the whole place.
He stood naked and not ashamed before the Radiance.
"I'd be ashamed to.
6, v. 3, "Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;" also Psalm 37, v. 19, "They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine, they shall be satisfied;" and Jeremiah, chap.
Rustem felt ashamed on being thus detected, and rose up frowning in scorn.
Now, Bushy Tail would not have come if he had not had something to say, for he felt a little ashamed about the pies.
Shoes and sunbonnetsI'm ashamed of you now, Johnnie, in earnest.
They feared that if their treasures remained unaugmented they would be consumed and worn away by age, and were ashamed after receiving so rich a heritage to make no further additions: thus they performed greater and more numerous exploits.
He had to flee from his father's house; never to see his mother again; to wander over the deserts to kinsmen who cheated him as he had cheated others; to serve Laban for twenty-one years; to crouch miserably in fear and trembling, as a petitioner for his life before Esau whom he had wronged, and to be made more ashamed than ever, by finding that generous Esau had forgiven and forgotten all.
But now it stood out in that stark little room with an air as incongruous and ashamed as that of a pink tarleton danseuse who finds herself in a monk's cell.
The little boy trembled and looked ashamed under his noble glance of sorrow and scorn.
There was also a leading article, in which it was made perfectly clear that England would stand ashamed among the nations, if she did not inter her greatest painter in Westminster Abbey.
Mr. Rothay Reynolds, in his interesting and sympathetic book My Russian Year, writes in much the same strain: "In Russia God and His Mother, saints and angels, seem near; men rejoice or stand ashamed beneath their gaze.
Why had he avoided her, and been so odd and ashamed from the first morning on?
The Towers stood solemnly upon a Sussex hill amid park-like modern grounds, but the house cannot better be describedit would be so wearisome for one thingthan by saying that it was a cross between an overgrown, pretentious Norwood villa and one of those saturnine Institutes for cripples the train passes as it slinks ashamed through South London into Surrey.
" I still turned to go away, feeling afraid of him and ashamed before him.