When Servia, urged by the Allies to yield as much as possible in order to prevent war, acceded to eight out of ten of Austria's humiliating demands and agreed to arbitrate the two involving her national sovereignty, the world saw that the Allied countries did not want war, and were willing to suffer great humiliation for the sake of preventing it.

He felt a wondering humiliation at his own narrow grief.

" With that, he threw a frightened glance at me, which caused me to turn away and spare him the humiliation of knowing that he was observed.

"You have been very cruel to a woman who has done nothing to deserve such humiliation.

But Smirre couldn't endure the humiliation of his failure to get the better of such a little tot, so he lay down under the tree, that he might keep a close watch on him.

And when she dies by her own hand, it is not in madness, but to escape humiliation.

But Noaks had never forgotten the double humiliation he had suffered at Chatfordfirst in being sent off the football field, and again in the disastrous ending to the attempted raid on the Birchites' fireworks; nor had he forgiven the Triple Alliance for the part which they had played, especially on the latter occasion, in bringing shame and confusion on the heads of the Philistines.

To complete his humiliation, and to prove his obedience by suffering, she next directed him in this beggarly attire to go and present himself to his old herdsman Eumæus, who had the care of his swine and his cattle, and had been a faithful steward to him all the time of his absence.

You are saving my nieces the humiliation of suspending the paper they established and have labored on so lovingly.

" "No deed done for the right, my Gwendolaine, Can bring humiliation to a soul.

The position of the German Embassy in Paris was very difficult, and unfortunately their first ambassador after the war, Count Arnim, didn't understand (perhaps didn't care to) how difficult it was for a high-spirited nation, which until then had always ranked as a great military power, to accept her humiliation and be just to the victorious adversary.

Had she undergone this humiliation as the fish on the line of the mischievous play of one who had stopped over a train in order to do murder?

But if he lets himself be drawn into efforts demanding a kind of strength quite different from that in which he is pre-eminent, he will experience humiliation; and this is perhaps the most painful feeling with which a man can be afflicted.

They would willingly have hidden themselves, had that been possible, but to be known and to be dragged out by those hard-faced Marines would have added humiliation to terror.

The men who had moved up into the soaking wood saw they had run a risk as great to them as the fabled danger of the riverthe risk of the josher's irony, the dire humiliation of the laugh.

"It is meet that I should bear the humiliation of acknowledging my folly.

For a quarter of a mile the squire made heroic efforts to recover his vanished prestige, but effort was useless, and finally concluding that he was practically left standing, he veered off from the main road down a farm lane to find some spot in which to hide the humiliation of his defeat.

He even rejoiced in the prospect of deliverance from his wretched condition, although he well knew the humiliation he must pass through to attain it.

The Belgians whom I wished to see were those behind the line of guards on the Belgo-Dutch frontier; those who had remained at home under the Germans to face humiliation and hunger.

Through ten fitful years it loyally waved those colors; then followed its brief humiliation by the Bear Flag episode, and early redemption by order of Commodore Sloat, who sent thither an American flag-bearer to invest it with the Stars and Stripes.

He must have foreseen his establishment of power in Medina, and possibly he had visions of its extension to neighbouring tribes, but he could not have foreseen the humiliation of his native city at his feet, glad at last to receive the faith of one whom she now regarded as the sovereign potentate of Arabian territory.

Oh is an interjection, governing the objective case humiliations.

"Oh, sire," he cried, "spare us this griefspare us this humiliation!

With the insolence of power and the bitter anger of outraged confidence, Henry heaped humiliations on his enemy.

Not thus slyly could the Olema inflict humiliation on unbelievers.