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    1. Had the king of Portugal submitted to those ignominious terms which his brother-in-law the king of Spain proposed to him, Britain would have been freed from a much greater inconveniency than the loss of the Portugal trade, the burden of supporting a very weak ally, so unprovided of every thing for his own defence, that the whole power of England, had it been directed to that single purpose, could scarce, perhaps, have defended him for another campaign


    2. American relief efforts have resulted in the ignominious death of eighteen United States servicemen dispatched to oversee the distribution of food


    3. Assumptions by modern revisionists seeking to belie historical traditions, avidly supported by special interests with political axes to grind, however discredited such assumptions oftentimes are, may further promote muddled-headed thinking by ultimately winning the battle of ideas, however questionable their premises, by perpetuating falsehoods that, on the surface, oftentimes appear plausible to variable, ―discerning‖ young minds armed with partial knowledge, but sufficient enough to receive distorted impressions at their face value, rendering many vulnerable to questionable or unlikely propositions that bear little or no resemblance to the truth; advanced by (political and social) deconstructionists alienated from their (hated) customs, offering in exchange, contemporary standards predicated on historical fallacies, deception, inflicted reasoning and ignominious viewpoints


    4. They had seen it happen before, they all knew the dangers and the ignominious ways the Patriarch and the Castigator chose to dispose of their enemies


    5. Nothing short of the shackles on his feet prevented him from falling over the parapet of the tower to a well-deserved though ignominious death


    6. I expected him to be full of anger and recriminations over the ignominious debacle, but instead found him full of good cheer, urging on the men, and chatting pleasantly with me


    7. wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men


    8. That ignominious September 11 of 2001 will be remembered as one of the most infamous days in


    9. ignominious bestiality, of universal grief and mourning? I was in El Bierzo enjoying the deep-rooted


    10. One of the most ignominious moments of our marriage occurred immediately after Dixie had the upper half of her left lung removed at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek

    11. 25 As soon therefore as the contents of this letter become known to you in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you with wives and children to be sent to us vilified and abused in chains of iron to undergo a death cruel and ignominious suitable to men disaffected


    12. He sat back for a minute, his hand still on Lochert's mouth, and thought again of his son's ignominious death under the trees


    13. “Hello, yourself!” snapped the fish “The Wishfish? I’ve never met a more pompous, ignominious idiot! The Coralute? What does that wrinkled old windbag have to do with me? Nothing! Now don’t just stand there, give me a push!”


    14. 3 How cruel and unreasoning to compel innocent children to suffer for the sins of their progenitors, misdeeds of which they are wholly ignorant, and for which they could in no way be responsible! And to do such wicked deeds in the name of one who taught his disciples to love even their enemies! It has become necessary, in this recital of the life of Jesus, to portray the manner in which certain of his fellow Jews rejected him and conspired to bring about his ignominious death; but we would warn all who read this narrative that the presentation of such a historical recital in no way justifies the unjust hatred, nor condones the unfair attitude of mind, which so many professed Christians have maintained toward individual Jews for many centuries


    15. Accordingly, Jesus elected to lay down his life in the flesh in the manner which was in keeping with the outworking of natural events, and he steadfastly refused to extricate himself from the cruel clutches of a wicked conspiracy of inhuman events which swept on with horrible certainty toward his unbelievable humiliation and ignominious death


    16. He went willingly to his ignominious death, after he had provided for the safety of his chosen apostles


    17. And this superb faith was undaunted even by the cruel and crushing threat of an ignominious death


    18. However, in the final analysis, the ignominious American defeat at Pearl Harbour was the ultimate price to pay for being unprepared!


    19. Three days later on February 15th, the British army surrendered at Singapore in one of the most ignominious fiascos of modern military history


    20. Adolf Hitler therefore set in motion preparations for a battle that was to assume epic proportions; the greatest German attack in the west since the campaign in 1940 when he had brought down his enemies in ignominious defeat

    21. He deserved better than the ignominious dismissal he received


    22. Only by seizing her by the arm did he prevent their both falling over in an unspeakably ignominious confusion; and as he had never seen her demented before or anything approaching it, he at once put it down to Fanny--how or why he was unable to imagine, but Fanny was somehow at the bottom of this disgraceful frenzy


    23. Their ignominious stupidity makes me want to shout to the mountains in agony and


    24. He felt ignominious and sore


    25. Three minutes' delay will render it involuntary and ignominious


    26. But, no; on reflection, the procureur was not a merciless man; and it was not the magistrate, slave to his duties, but the friend, the loyal friend, who roughly but firmly cut into the very core of the corruption; it was not the executioner, but the surgeon, who wished to withdraw the honor of Danglars from ignominious association with the disgraced young man they had presented to the world as their son-in-law


    27. how, in the crowd that witnessed Hester Prynne's ignominious


    28. And now, almost imperceptible as were the latter steps of his progress, he had come opposite the well-remembered and weather-darkened scaffold, where, long since, with all that dreary lapse of time between, Hester Prynne had encountered the world's ignominious stare


    29. Dimmesdale, on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, had begun a course of penance,—which he afterwards, in so many futile methods, followed out,—by inflicting a hideous torture on himself


    30. Holden was found dead in his bedroom in 1994; he slashed his own throat and tossed the knife out the window before dying, thus ending the ignominious reign of the Dahlquist clan

    31. To-day, for example, I should have come to very ignominious grief without it


    32. ignominious death at the hands of a mob


    33. The expectation of ignominious and public death is perhaps less horrible to a condemned criminal than the anticipation of what was coming after breakfast to Madame Grandet and Eugenie


    34. In the last three decades the prestige of security analysis in Wall Street has experienced both a brilliant rise and an ignominious fall—a history related but by no means parallel to the course of stock prices


    35. The ignominious collapse of this venture was accepted at the time as marking the end of “high finance” in the railroad field


    36. As usually happens in such cases, a fair-haired boy, or “young genius,” was chiefly responsible for both the creation of the great empire and its ignominious downfall; but there is plenty of blame to be accorded others as well


    37. But to achieve this aim it is necessary that you should add your efforts and should, if possible, forget the misfortunes you have suffered, should entertain the hope of a less cruel fate, should be certain that inevitable and ignominious death awaits those who make any attempt on your persons or on what remains of your property, and finally that you should not doubt that these will be safeguarded, since such is the will of the greatest and most just of monarchs


    38. Three minutes’ delay will render it involuntary and ignominious


    39. ” His fall from grace was as ignominious as his rise had been spectacular, with his censure by the U


    40. The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl—she looked thirteen or upwards

    41. Last of all was the confusing General Section, its name alone suggesting the vagueness of its functions, where problems that had not been solved elsewhere in the company went to die an ignominious death


    42. Occasionally, it is of service, to-day, for example, I should have come to very ignominious grief without it


    43. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes


    44. Before entering upon my Petersburg romance with all my ignominious adventures in it, I find this preface is necessary


    45. Alas, it >wa5 all done in the nam?, of love, magnanimity, honour, and afurwards it turned out hideous, shameless and ignominious


    46. what a stupid and ignominious position I was in, though without suspecting it I


    47. Being one of the stewards, that is, one of the twelve "young men with a rosette," I saw with my own eyes how this day of ignominious memory began


    48. Of course, in case of success, it would be a profitable undertaking enough; but in the event of non-success, what an ignominious position for the authors of such a failure


    49. It excludes from our waters, ports, and harbors, all their vessels, public and private; it excludes from our country all their products and manufactures; and forbids our citizens to debase and degrade their country by a commercial intercourse which would stain and pollute them with the payment of an ignominious tribute to a foreign nation


    50. It is true, sir, that I was unjustly condemned to pay a fine of one thousand dollars and to suffer an ignominious imprisonment of four months in a loathsome dungeon—the common receptacle of felons, runaway negroes, or the vilest malefactors—and this when I was the Representative of the people of Vermont in this House of Congress









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    black disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful dishonourable scandalous outrageous sordid disreputable infamous