146 Verbs to Use for the Word disgraces

I'se got ter do everything perfect 'cause ob dat. Couldn't bring no disgrace on my Lord.

I felt the disgrace of my conduct, and most bitterly the disgrace of the penalty.

The best gondolier in Venice has been beaten by an old fisherman, and nothing but blood could wipe out the disgrace!"

" "No, he would not let me share his disgrace.

It was customary among the Roman Emperors at this period to avoid the disgrace and danger of public executions by sending a messenger to a man's house, and ordering him to put himself to death by whatever means he preferred.

She began to compare her conduct with the conduct of others of her own age; and at length, fixing her comparison upon her brother George, as the companion of whom, from her infancy, she had been habitually the most emulous, she recollected that an almost similar circumstance had once happened to him, and that he had not only escaped disgrace, but had acquired glory by an intrepid confession of his fault.

Yet I would have more faith in being spared disgrace if at the mercy of Sanchez, than his lieutenant.

"Miss Lane," he said, "had I known that Lieutenant Matson was your personal friend, I would have suffered disgrace rather than encountered him.

I have no wish to survive this day's disgrace.

"People in olden times were loth to speak out, fearing the disgrace of not being themselves as good as their words.

If he is, show yourself suddenly, strike him on the head, and cause him to stop, so that Ghabra may outstrip him, and we may not incur the disgrace of defeat.

He deemed it a disgrace, now that other points had been subdued, that this one alone, occupying a central position, should continue to resist.

It meant disgrace and shame.

Some thought she had eloped; but the prevailing opinion was, that she had been tempted into a fatal error, and then, in the frenzy of remorse and shame, had destroyed herself, in order to hide her disgrace from the world.

He, six times consul, fit for peace or war, Sits drooping here, content to brook disgrace, Who glad to fight through follies of his foes Sighs for your shame, whilst you abide secure.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

The latter was, at this period, detested by all other aspirants to royal favour; his rapid success at Court had made him insolent; and he advanced such preposterous claims, and arrogated to himself such an indefeasible right to the gratitude and indulgence of the Regent, that the Princes of the Blood took the alarm, and the Prince de Condé and the Comte de Soissons resolved to effect his disgrace.

They determined therefore to prevent that disgrace by the sword.

I'll have that cold-blooded young villain shot in a hollow square, and I'll have it done in this very district, that the whole county may know the disgrace of the high and mighty Spragues.

Not long after, Papirius Cursor obliterates this disgrace, by vanquishing the Samnites, sending them under the yoke, and recovering the hostages.

And when the fire began to spread wider by the violence of the wind, the soldiers of the veteran legions, who had been left to guard the fleet, being considered as invalids, could not endure the disgrace, but of themselves went on board the ships and weighed anchor, and having attacked Cassius's fleet, captured two five-banked galleys, in one of which was Cassius himself; but he made his escape by taking to a boat.

He wondered if she saw disgrace in his face and was trying to avoid him.

Slaves would commonly be crucified or put out of the way by some method involving similar disgrace.

All noise she thinks a great disgrace, But tricks she does not lack.

They were introduced into the cabinet by an inglorious and guilty compromise of sir Robert Walpole; a compromise, that shunned the light; a compromise, that reflected indelible disgrace upon every individual concerned in it.

146 Verbs to Use for the Word  disgraces