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I wanted to go home, I craved a cigarette, but I could have neither, and the indignity of my sordid life made me wish for the ultimate release
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Oh, the pitiful bleating of that she-goat! “The indignity !” “The betrayal !” But it was all to no avail
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Georges face had turned white but there was an air of indignity and disbelief in equal amounts he appealed to us saying
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or indignity was intended for him
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She experienced a surge of indignity that he did not find her interesting enough to peep at in the bath but forced herself back to more important issues
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Once I got over the indignity of going ass over tea-kettle, we got the man a drink and made introductions
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I decided to leave rather than face the indignity of public exile
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indignity of paying a fee to visit the sick
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He couldn’t believe the evidence they said they’d found and the worst part of it all was that Suzy would have had the indignity of being searched and questioned over the contents of their find
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He felt his own head grabbed at the same time, and each man suffered simul�taneously the indignity of having a soggy thumb stuck in his ear
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Snorted Paul Connor with mock indignity
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that last indignity of having to face him
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Ruth was spared this indignity at last
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When Peter and his associates saw their Master being subjected to this indignity, they were no longer able to restrain themselves
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In the meantime Jesus was left in the audience chamber in the custody of the temple guards, who, with the servants of the high priest, amused themselves by heaping every sort of indignity upon the Son of Man
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He sensed the anger and indignity suffered by the big man, and when the canyon track broadened, he urged his horse forward
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The blanketed animal could not see nor would have comprehended the final indignity as two yellow cur hounds crept from under Charlie‘s pickup and retrieved the two sand covered organs to retire behind the barn and savor the colt‘s misfortune
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He had all but forgotten his brief indignity in front of the bridge crew
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The last straw, the final indignity
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Grant Tripp’s interview was objectionable as was Scully’s, yet each man eventually recognised the logic of answering questions on site rather than suffer the indignity of a late night jaunt down town
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The point in question was the indignity of the accused, allegedly, having stored the body of Sir Alex Clegg in the meat cold room with the intention of substituting it in the casket with the two frozen pork carcases acquired for that very purpose; and then the cremation to follow
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Add to that the indignity of being sucked off by an octogenarian shirt lifter, Mark added, and you have the kind of scenario that could really damage a man’s reputation
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CBS and NBC were reduced to the indignity of showing our
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and it was an indignity to have to drive us
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Thane had told him of the Warlock’s plans, stressing the indignity to the resurrected
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At least I will not suffer the indignity of dying at the hands of
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immediately to her feet, fuming at the indignity of it all
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Before the Klingon could move, much less recover from the surprise and indignity of it all, Tam's foot pinned the comedian’s neck to the ground, effectively cutting off the Klingon’s air supply
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" He pushed him back harder, but this time his twin wasn't willing to accept the indignity, grabbed his brother’s arms, and pulled him to the ground
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To be summoned like that was an indignity he could have done without
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“We have at least saved you the indignity of carrying out this briefing in your own office, and having you driven away from there in a police car,” Clayton pointed out
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He paused as if he was unable to digest the indignity of it all
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” is the pledge of promise every clan-minded patriot is taught to egocentrically justify indulgently satisfying their children's demands, to avoid the shock and indignity of being called unloving by the hostage taking threats of their “I'll Youtube you” children
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Since a believer does not taint his or her faith with wrong deeds, he or she is safe from humiliation, indignity, and loss; but if they incline to this lower life, God will cure them
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indignity to the Pharisees and Saducees, and serves as the
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In the midst of that indignity, Riordan’s statement had caught him off guard, and Aiden didn’t know how to answer at first
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The last mass murdering leader who knew he was going to be killed; committed suicide rather than subject himself to the indignity of being defeated and toppled from his height of power
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and voices raised and occasionally a female voice shrieked in indignity
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"After having long been in danger of my life at the hands of the village, I have been seized, with great violence and indignity, and brought a long journey on foot to Paris
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For I would have thee know, Sancho, that wounds caused by any instruments which happen by chance to be in hand inflict no indignity, and this is laid down in the law of the duel in express words: if, for instance, the cobbler strikes another with the last which he has in his hand, though it be in fact a piece of wood, it cannot be said for that reason that he whom he struck with it has been cudgelled
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I say this lest thou shouldst imagine that because we have been drubbed in this affray we have therefore suffered any indignity; for the arms those men carried, with which they pounded us, were nothing more than their stakes, and not one of them, so far as I remember, carried rapier, sword, or dagger
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"They gave me no time to see that much," answered Sancho, "for hardly had I laid hand on my tizona when they signed the cross on my shoulders with their sticks in such style that they took the sight out of my eyes and the strength out of my feet, stretching me where I now lie, and where thinking of whether all those stake-strokes were an indignity or not gives me no uneasiness, which the pain of the blows does, for they will remain as deeply impressed on my memory as on my shoulders
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The sullen soldiers shouldered their empty tubes and fell into their places, like men whose blood had been heated by the past contest, and who only desired the opportunity to revenge an indignity which was still wounding to their pride, concealed as it was under the observances of military etiquette
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The bridge was cleared by his advance men, and no one was permitted to cross for an hour before his arrival, lest he should suffer the indignity of being made to wait alongside the common people
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He was grateful that Lady Philippa could not see the indignity of his parents ’ situation
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other than normal armpit hair, and she was unwilling to commit the indignity of peering
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Not only had we “stolen” a mission they considered theirs, they had to suffer the indignity of helping us offload and get ready for action
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Not only had we “stolen” a mission they considered theirs, they had to suffer the indignity of helping us offload and get ready for action
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You turned in from the street, as if entering a secluded orchard, where you came upon the foot of a disjointed staircase, guarded by a moss-stained effigy of some saintly bishop, mitred and staffed, and bearing the indignity of a broken nose meekly, with his fine stone hands crossed on his breast
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We also required money to replace the Mississippi amplifiers that we’d burned out crisscrossing the map, so we would suffer the indignity playing this high-paying date in a marquee full of what I imagined to be future cabinet ministers
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It was worth every indignity of that night to witness his playing from that proximity
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He recounts the fates of failed acts or “turns,” faced with the indignity of being “paid off”—that is, sent on their way without completing their engagement rather than left at the mercy of a disapproving or hostile crowd
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In fact, everything important about their domestic arrangements had been decided on, like the cohabitation itself, without the indignity of talking about it
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“Can you tell them I’ll meet them out front?” At least this way he might avoid the indignity of being manacled in his own building, paraded before the neighbors
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That’s how Runner had always been—crazy, then not, and expecting you to pretend whatever indignity he’d just inflicted on you never happened
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“My sincere apologies for the indignity of bringing you up in the… back elevator,” the president said
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‘I am still a prefectural governor, and I submitted without a murmur to the indignity of allowing the civil service to saddle me with a deputy—’
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And that other side of life, of which she had never before thought and which had formerly seemed to her so far away and improbable, was now nearer and more akin and more comprehensible than this side of life, where everything was either emptiness and desolation or suffering and indignity
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And my lie, and my fraud and my indignity, and my cowardice and my treason and my crime, I should have drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at midday, and my 'good morning' would have lied, and my 'good night' would have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? in order to be happy
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The rest of Marilyn Monroe’s experience at Payne Whitney was more of the same—a story characterized by one indignity after another, all heaped upon a woman used to being treated with much more reverence
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It was not easy to move inside the house because of the crowd, but Florentino Ariza managed to make his way to the master bedroom, peered on tiptoe over the groups of people blocking the door, and saw Juvenal Urbino in the conjugal bed as he had wanted to see him since he h ad first heard of him--wallowing in the indignity of death
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The lioness was now back in the path where she could see the author of the indignity which had been placed upon her
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There are men from whom warm words are small indignity
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Even had there been no miracles, had there been nothing marvelous to justify his hopes, why this indignity, why this humiliation, why this premature decay, “in excess of nature,” as the spiteful monks said? Why this “sign from heaven,” which they so triumphantly acclaimed in company with Father Ferapont, and why did they believe they had gained the right to acclaim it? Where is the finger of Providence? Why did Providence hide its face “at the most critical moment” (so Alyosha thought it), as though voluntarily submitting to the blind, dumb, pitiless laws of nature?
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Secondly, these people were subjected to all sorts of unnecessary indignity in these different Places—chains, shaved heads, shameful clothing—that is, they were deprived of the chief motives that induce the weak to live good lives, the regard for public opinion, the sense of shame and the consciousness of human dignity
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Gavryl turned very white on hearing that he was to be treated with such indignity, and turning his back on the assembly left the room without uttering a word
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, and in the drama of that name Shakespeare might have balanced the indignity forced upon King John, but now he is silent
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But I ask, whether the line of conduct recommended by that gentleman be such a one as would be proper to secure and take care of the independence of the people? Is it to secure the independence of the people, to suffer a foreign nation to impose upon them any terms which it thinks proper? Is it for the honor or happiness of this nation that we should again pass under the yoke of Great Britain? Is it for the honor of the nation to remove the embargo, without taking any other measure, and to bear with every indignity? No, sir; and yet the gentleman tells you, "take off the embargo, I want no substitute
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It is a great indignity to be beaten by the broom of a sweeper, and Piroo, maddened with rage, flew at the throat of his rival
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Sir, should we refuse an inquiry into this case, when we know that the fine of James Thompson Callender, for one of the most atrocious libels ever written in the United States, was remitted? When we know that it was remitted by the President of the United States, after the money had been received by the proper receiving officer of the United States, when it had passed out of the hands of James Thompson Callender into the hands of the officer of Government, and was, to all intents and purposes, in the Treasury of the United States, because there is no such thing as a treasury in which money is actually deposited—for a libel, too, in which the great Father of his Country was treated with a shameless indignity, which could not but have gone to the heart of every man? When the President of the United States was in that libel called a hoary-headed incendiary, should that fine be returned, and shall a gentleman in this House be fined and imprisoned for that which was not even improper? Shall we not restore to him that which others have been suffered to retain, and for which we have not brought to question him who restored it after it was in possession of the receiving officer of the United States—in fact, after it was in the Treasury? Let us not be guilty of this inconsistency
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Burr might have been innocent, the British Government had asked his release, would not the people of America have spurned the request as an indignity to the nation? And may we not suppose that these proud Spaniards, as they are called, may have feelings of a like nature? I believe, sir, that the course proposed would only add rigor to their sufferings, weight to their chains
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And what, sir, was the conduct of the opposition in the British House of Commons, when their King and country were insulted by a foreign Minister? Did they hold back, did they attempt to paralyze the proceedings of their Government in resenting this conduct and retrieving its wounded honor and dignity? No, sir, they were Englishmen, and felt the indignity to themselves! They were patriots, and could not see their Government and nation insulted with indifference! They stepped forward, sir, and were the first to move the resolution and address
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The insult offered to the honor of the nation in the affair of the Chesapeake, so far from being redressed, was heightened by a proclamation from the King of Great Britain, authorizing publicly, in the face of the world, the boarding of our merchant ships, and taking therefrom whomsoever their officers should call a British subject; to palliate this outrage on our independence, it was recommended to the boarding officer to execute this indignity with politeness
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In this state of our foreign relations Congress met, the members brought with them the feelings of the people, who were all alive to the late indignity offered their Government, all expected that measures of energy would be pursued
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" And again, this sentence: "Whilst we view with great satisfaction, the wisdom, dignity, and moderation, which have marked the measures of the Supreme Executive of our country in its attempt to remove, by candid explanations, the complaints and jealousies of France, we feel the full force of that indignity which has been offered our country in the rejection of its Minister
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For the accredited Minister of a great and powerful Sovereign, whose character he in this country represents, whose confidence he shares; of a Sovereign who is not bound, and perhaps will not be disposed to uphold him, in misconduct; but who is bound, by the highest moral obligations, and by the most impressive political considerations, to vindicate his wrongs, whether they affect his person or reputation, and to take care that whatever treatment he shall receive shall not exceed the measure of justice, and above all, that it does not amount to national indignity
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, she seems to have been constantly and carefully feeling our pulse, to ascertain what potions we would bear; and if we go on submitting to one indignity after another, it will not be long before we shall see British subjects, not only taking our property in our harbors, but trampling on our persons in the streets of our cities
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Our situation was not unlike that of a young man just entering into life, and who, if he tamely submitted to one cool, deliberate, intentional indignity, might safely calculate to be kicked and cuffed for the whole of the remainder of his life; or, if he should afterwards undertake to retrieve his character, must do it at ten times the expense which it would have cost him at first to support it
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Erskine's authority was denied by the British Government, it is well known that in fact, on the point of this indignity, the fate of that arrangement turned
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The most amicable relations existed, it was true, between Russia and the United States; but would the gentleman have us on that account to submit to every species of indignity from the ally of that power? He beheld with as much detestation and abhorrence the conduct of the French Emperor as any man could possibly do
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This resolution had an eye to our relations with France, from whom we had then received every injury and indignity she could inflict, and with whom we were in a state of partial hostility; but it explicitly declares, that we ought to engage in offensive war, for no object whatever