50 Verbs to Use for the Word

You want to send Jim and me back to be whipped and tortured, and ground down under the heels of them that you call masters; and your laws will bear you out in it,—more shame for you and them!

And he felt shame that the man-animals should be laughing at him.

They would shut him up if he persisted in his story.... Yet it was his duty to confess, to suffer public shame, and to make public atonement.

20:010:005 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

"This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die; is there not law for it?

'We don't send playthings,' cried Catherine, her pride overcoming her shame.

It has lately become a fashion to deny the existence of this early stage of human sex life, in order to spare us this "shame."

I’ll reveal my shame, that Imay not have to blame myself or you hereafter.”

He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame; but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.

And instead of having any shame or self-control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions.

Milady concealed her face in her hands, as if she could not endure the shame which this name recalled to her.

A lady of liberal views, who was traveling in the same train withus, seeing the governor and the officers in the first-class saloonand learning the object of the expedition, began, intentionallyraising her voice so that they should hear, to abuse the existingorder of things and to cry shame on men who would take part insuch proceedings.

“Confide my shame to you,” cried Milady, with the blush of modesty upon her countenance, “for often the crime of one becomes the shame of another--confide my shame to you, a man, and I a woman?

He said, “A woman cast her shame awayWhen she cast off her smock;” and farthermo’, “A fair woman, but* she be chaste also, *except Is like a gold ring in a sowe’s nose.

Wherefore let us (at least to avoid the shame, that becomes not a Christian to be found in) bear up with patience as well as we can.

Nay, let us strive to take him, and work his body shame, and strip the harness from his shoulders, and many a one of his comrades fighting for his sake let us subdue with the pitiless bronze."

Lying back in the hansom, with his hat pulled over his forehead, Dorian Gray watched with listless eyes the sordid shame of the great city, and now and then he repeated to himself the words that Lord Henry had said to him on the first day they had met, "To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul."

Urge not my shame.

Old Pew, as had lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament.

The lady told him the shame Agib had undergone at school, which so much affected the vizier that he joined his tears with theirs, and judging from this that the misfortune which had happened to his daughter was the common discourse of the town, he was mortified to the quick.

And Hester Prynne had returned, and taken up her long-forsaken shame!

Swallowing his shame, Mr. Button approached her.

She found it hard to summon her customary shame at having ignored her lessons.

(Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom, then twists round towards him, pulling her slip free of the poker.

We’ll drink the daisies of the field, in compliment to you; and the lilies of the valley that toil not, neither do they spin, in compliment to me—the more shame for me!’

And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually!

The big round drops course one another down The furrows of his cheeks.—Stop them, Ventidius, Or I shall blush to death, they set my shame, That caused them, full before me.

If he sensed my shame, he didn’t let on as he backed out of our naughty parking spot. “

From the traveller, whose sack of provisions is empty before the voyage is ended, whose garment is torn and dustladen, whose strength is exhausted, remove shame and poverty, and renew his life like a flower under the cover of thy kindly night.

From now on, it was regarded a shame to serve a foreigner as official, even if he was a ruler of China.

When was redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent?

Never had he completely recovered from the shame which his daughter had brought upon him.

28:010:006 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

So he loves her, if he’ll praise her tomy face, more shame to him!

It is impossible to picture to oneself the shame andmoral degradation to which the jealous man can descend without a qualmof conscience.

“If you have merited this shame, madame, if you have incurred this ignominy, you must submit to it as an offering to God.”

Such an interview, perhaps, would have been more terrible than even to meet him as she now did, with the hot mid-day sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people, drawn forth as to a festival, staring at the features that should have been seen only in the quiet gleam of the fireside, in the happy shadow of a home, or beneath a matronly veil at church.

"'Fore God, if any one, man or woman dares to hint shame of my child----" he burst out, and stopped abruptly.

Then I saw that they went on every man in his way without much conference one with another, save that these two men told Christian, that as to laws and ordinances, they doubted not but they should as conscientiously do them as he; therefore, said they, we see not wherein thou differest from us but by the coat that is on thy back, which was, as we trow, given thee by some of thy neighbours, to hide the shame of thy nakedness.

26:036:015 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.

And side by side with his determination grew shame for his former weakness.

I go on and I don’t know whether I’m going toshame or to light and joy.

The Adianos won’t tell Pa. They’ve got shame for Frances.

Many are astonished at His Miracles, few follow after the shame of His Cross.

65:001:012 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 65:001:013 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Who is contentNeeds fear no shame.

Afterward Bobby experienced no shame for these reflections.

he seized whom you wished*Ye fierce Mars appeasen of his ire,And as you list ye make heartes dign* <37> worthy Algates them that ye will set afire, at all events They dreade shame, and vices they resign Ye do him courteous to be, and benign; make, cause And high or low, after a wight intendeth, *according as The joyes that he hath your might him sendeth.

I am slipping backward and you draw my black shame out into the light of day.

And yet doth Juno me well more shame,For I dare not beknow* mine owen name, *acknowledge <30>But there as I was wont to hight Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.

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