The voice which whispered that Arthur Cumberland was not over-gifted with sensitiveness and would not feel the shame of his position like another, did not carry with it an indisputable message, and could not impose on my conscience for more than a passing moment.

"You have brought shame to the king and the tribe by the silly foolish things you did.

The kick sent the Dwarf clean across the platform, and the people, not understanding the situation, began to cry 'Shame.'

Swaying to and fro, with her eyes covered as if to hide her shame, she tried to tell herself that Stafford's was only a transient fancy for this girl, that it was mere flirtation, a vulgar liaison that she would teach him to forget.

With thy good sword maintain thy country's cause; In every action venerate its laws: The lie suborn'd if falsely urg'd to swear, Though torture wait thee, torture firmly bear; To forfeit honour, think the highest shame, And life too dearly bought by loss of fame; Nor to preserve it, with thy virtue give That for which only man should wish to live.'

What grief thou therewithal hast thrown on us, What shame upon our house, what dire distress Our soul endures, cannot be uttered.

Well, 'tis a shame, indeed, there should be any such privilege for proud beggars as Cambridge and Oxford are.

She never could bear such shame and such disappointment in him.

But after that she surrendered herself frankly to the mood of the poem and forgot to suffer shame, speaking in a loud, clear, dramatic voice which she accompanied by glances and even by gestures.

Now hereupon Beltane knew sudden shame and swift remorse, and bowed his head also, and would have prayedyet could not; wherefore his black mood deepened and his anger grew more bitter.

Here the delusion under which he laboured gradually wore away; he acknowledged that his mind had been in darkness, the consequence and punishment of spiritual pride; and declared that, inasmuch as he had given advantage to the evil spirit, he took shame to himself.

Women, it seems, have lost their native shame, As no man better may complain than I; Though not of any whom I made my wife, But of my daughter, who procured my fall.

Rebilus pursued them with two legions in order to avoid the shame of seeing the province suffering any injury from such a contemptible rabble.

But she had recognised the voice, and with her own true delicacy would spare the speaker the shame of discovery and the dread of exposure.

I will forget the shames you have put upon me.

"Who, for the joy which was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Others report, that as King Phlegyas, her father was carrying her with him into Peloponnesus, her pains surprised her on the confines of Epidauria where, to conceal her shame, she exposed the infant on a mountain.

Drowned in the heaving tide with her life, is her burden of woe, The dreary weight of sin, the woeful, troublesome years, The cold pure touch of the water has washed the shame from her brow Leaving a calm immortal, that looks like the chrism of peace.

One of Mrs. Haywood's favorite quotations, used by her later as a motto for the third volume of "The Female Spectator," stands with naïve appropriateness on the title-page: "There is a Lust in Man, no Awe can tame, Of loudly publishing his Neighbor's Shame.

Can there be a more heavy punishment, a more bitter pain, than to be punished in and by his children; to see his own evil example working out their shame and ruin?

"To what lengths will he not go to cover up his daughter's shame, if it threatens to become public that she is a thief?

Yet have I told my shame, and love is dead, methinks, since I am known for false friend and traitor vilea thing for scorn henceforth, that no honourable love may cleave to.

'But Miss Honoria,she is not afraid to tell her father the truth?' 'Suppose, sir, when Adam and Eve were in the garden, that all the devils had come up and played their fiends' tricks before them,do you think they'd have seen any shame in it?'

Only a shamefaced conscience holds me true, so that, though I have often done temerarious deeds, it has always been because I feared shame more than the risk, and my knees have ever been knocking together and my lips dry with fright.

They understand the work of Reform too well to be driven back by the furious waves of opposition, which are only foaming out their own shame.