This other, this white man's penance might, would involve a greater mortification of the flesh.

The mortification to his father was extreme.

Afrásiyáb writhed with anger and mortification at this intelligence, and sending for Barzú, despatched his army to attack the enemy, and challenge Rustem to single combat.

When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.

Dear Miss H.,Mary has such an invincible reluctance to any epistolary exertion that I am sparing her a mortification by taking the pen from her.

Ash Wednesday, being now called upon for a song, with his eyes fast stuck in his head, and as well as the Canary he had swallowed would give him leave, struck up a Carol, which Christmas Day had taught him for the nonce; and was followed by the latter, who gave "Miserere" in fine style, hitting off the mumping notes and lengthened drawl of Old Mortification with infinite humour.

I remember my mortification on the occasion.

For the moment, however, all other emotions were swallowed up in intense mortification over the density he had displayed, and the ridiculous light in which he must have appeared to all the actors in the comedy.

Ancient Ireland, perhaps, more than any other country, understood the supremacy of spirit over matter, and strove to escape through mortifications from the prison of the flesh.

I am ashamed of myself, to have such a mean mortification about what is really of no importance.

The common symptoms of hysteria everybody is familiar with,the crying and laughing in inappropriate places, the fancied impossibility of breathing, and so forth,which make such trouble and mortification for the embarrassed companions of hysterical persons; and which, moreover, can be very easily suppressed by a little wholesome severity, accompanied by judicious threats or sudden use of cold water.

There is no shadow of disappointment or mortification near him.

An ascetic spirit is abroad; our amateur physiologists look rather to a mortification than an honest building-up of the flesh.

Cadurcis had found some opportunities of pouring forth his griefs and mortification into the ear of Venetia, and they had reached her mother; but Lady Annabel, though she sympathised with this interesting boy, invariably counselled duty.

He was taken with a fever a few days later and died before the cruise was over, as much perhaps of mortification as from the inroads of the disease.