At his entreaties, the Caledonian was induced to advance to the front of the stage (never was there a more moving scene than that before it); silence was obtained, and he condescended to express his sorrow for the state in which some nights previously he had presented himself: adding, "that he never before felt so keenly the degradation of his situation."

Kings and subjects may both take a lesson of moderation from the melancholy fate of the House of Stuart; that Kings may not suffer degradation and exile, and subjects may not be harassed by the evils of a disputed succession.

She and you are both happy in having escaped the degradation, the deep misery of a loveless union.

" Rosa, without venturing to look up, said, in a faltering tone: "I cannot bear to bring degradation upon you, Gerald.

In spite of his prayers that he might be spared the degradation of being arrested while still clad in his pontifical habits, he was at once sent to the Bastile.

'Why, Sir, he must either mean the word Laplander in a very extensive sense, or may mean a voluntary degradation of himself.

As these regions have been known a few years only, the universality of this depravity disproves most emphatically the ridiculous notion that savages are naturally pure in their conduct and owe their degradation to intercourse with corrupt white men.

A handsome mulatto woman, about 18 or 20 years of age, whose independent spirit could not brook the degradation of slavery, was in the habit of running away: for this offence she had been repeatedly sent by her master and mistress to be whipped by the keeper of the Charleston work-house.

And in this case I might perhaps prevent moral degradation, growing out of misfortune and despair.

For parasitism and likewise slavery infallibly entail the degradation of certain structures and an overgrowth of others by the law of use and disuse.

If the national vanity only were wounded, perhaps I might smile, though I hope I should not triumph; but when I see so much misery accompany so profound a degradation, my heart does not accord with my language, if I seem to do either one or the other.

The vacancy of their expression proves the degradation of an art that had ceased to idealise anything beyond a faultless body.

Still less can we pretend to describe the unblushing and unutterable degradation of this period as it is revealed to us by the poets and the satirists.

How then could I imagine that the same Austria which thus spoke would accept the degradation of Russian interference?

"It is to be hoped she does not continue her relation with that base man if she knows of his marriage," said Mrs. Percival; "for that would involve a moral degradation painful for you to think of in Flora's sister.

But that which desolates families, and which causes a physical degradation of the human race exposed to the attacks of malaria, is the chronic poisoning, which undermines the springs of life and produces a slow but progressive anæmia.

A very low wooden stool upon which accused persons were formerly seated during their trial; an arrangement deemed so great a degradation by persons of condition that many attainted nobles indignantly appealed against it.

The meeting was called to discuss the degradation of women under the Contagious Diseases Act.

His purpose is to effect a thorough degradation of Personality.

Carolinia was an aristocracy, the instincts of which dreads the moral power of proprietary cultivators of the soil, so enacted their perpetual degradation.

And she hated himhated him with all the blazing scorn of a young proud soul whose fine body had endured degradation on his account.

No doubt Epictetus is here describing conduct which he had often seen, and of which he had himself experienced the degradation.

Sell is the more dignified word socially, but may express greater moral degradation.

One half of the room was full of swinefat, blowse-necked Jewish men, lawyers, cadets, owners of housesall the low breeds who fatten off the degradation of women.

This was the legal position of all slaves; but it naturally often happened that those who were men of knowledge or skill, as secretaries, for example, librarians, doctors, or even as body-servants, were in intimate and happy relations with their owners, and in the household of a humane man no well-conducted slave need fear bodily degradation.