Use "degraded" in a sentence

1. what the dead creature had once been, so degraded

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2. If new mines were discovered, as much superior to those of Potosi, as they were superior to those of Europe, the value of silver might be so much degraded as to render even the mines of Potosi not worth the working

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3. A produce, of which the value is principally derived from its scarcity, is necessarily degraded by its abundance

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4. For this great coinage, the bank (inconsequence of the worn and degraded state into which the gold coin had fallen a few years ago) was frequently obliged to purchase gold bullion at the high price of four pounds an ounce, which it soon after issued in coin at £3:17:10 1/2 an ounce, losing in this manner between two and a half and three per cent

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5. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money

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6. But at Carlisle, bills were paid in gold and silver ; whereas at Dumfries they were paid in Scotch bank notes ; and the uncertainty of getting these bank notes exchanged for gold and silver coin, had thus degraded them four per cent

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7. sometimes depended upon the condition, that the holder of the note should bring the change of a guinea to the person who issued it; a condition which the holders of such notes might frequently find it very difficult to fulfil, and which must have degraded this currency below the value of gold and silver money

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8. with images of former ships, now degraded and

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9. Should this currency, therefore, be at any time worn, clipt, or otherwise degraded below its standard value, the state, by a reformation of its coin, can effectually re-establish its currency

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10. The money of such banks, being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state

11. But when the coin is degraded below its standard weight, the annual coinage must, besides this, fill up the large vacuities which exportation and the melting pot are continually making in the current coin

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12. toned and painted wood and brick and stone did all too well to draw eyes away from the unkempt and degraded forms of the lowliest dwellers

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13. They feel, or imagine, that if their assemblies, which they are fond of calling parliaments, and of considering as equal in authority to the parliament of Great Britain, should be so far degraded as to become the humble ministers and executive officers of that parliament, the greater part of their own importance would be at an end

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14. The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society

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15. degraded his memory and replaced it now with feelings of

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16. The public, the farmer, the landlord, all suffer more or less by this degraded cultivation

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17. Ranking with that warning he also said, apropos of war: „War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse

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18. The same argument (once) held for slaves who were Equally degraded as men and women

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19. Her handwriting had already degraded to the point only a few could read it

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20. Degraded science is one more loosening of the principles upon which America and the West are founded

21. The value of human life must be degraded

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22. That myths of stolen elections, the lives of opponents corrupted or degraded, and the alleged victimization of their own constituencies are instructive keys to the nature of liberalism and its infection of the Democratic Party

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23. of truth have multiplied and degraded in time

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24. 23:2-31 The Scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat therefore everything whatever they bid you observe that observe and do but do nothing like their works because they say and do not do it because they bind heavy burdens and too difficult to be carried and lay them on men’s shoulders but they themselves will not carry any of those things with one of their fingers but all their works they do to be seen by men; they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garment and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the Markets and love to be called: “Rabbi Rabbi” by men; but do not be called Rabbi because only one is your Master even Christ and you are all brothers anyway; and call no man on the Earth your father because only one is your Father who is in Heaven; neither be called masters because the one is your Master even the Christ but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant and whoever shall exalt himself shall be degraded; and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted; but disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you block the Kingdom of Heaven for men because you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are entering to enter inside; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you devour widows’ houses and make long prayers as a pretence therefore you shall receive the greater damnation; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you cross land and sea to make one proselyte and when he is made you make him twice more the child of Hell than you yourselves; disaster to you you blind guides who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor! You fools and blind ones because which is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? and you say: Whoever shall swear by the altar it is nothing but whoever swears by the gift that is upon it he is guilty; You fools and blind ones because; which is greater the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it and by all things on it and whoever shall swear by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it and he who shall swear by Heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you pay the tithes of mint and anise and cumin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith; this you ought to have done and not left the other undone; you blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you make the outside of the cup and of the plate clean but inside they are full of extortion and excess; blind Pharisee first clean that which is inside the cup and plate so that the outside of it may be clean also; Disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you are like whitened tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are full of dead men’s bones and all the uncleanness inside; even so you also appear to men righteous outwardly but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity; disaster to you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the grave sites of the righteous and you say: If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets; therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are all the children of those who killed the prophets; Fulfil the stature of your fathers you serpents you generation of vipers; how can you escape the damnation of Hell? So note that I send you prophets and wise men and Scribes; and some of them you shall kill and crucify and some of them you shall beat in your synagogues and persecute from city to city so that on you may come all the righteous bloodshed on the Earth from the blood of righteous Abel until the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom you all killed between the temple and the altar; Truly I say to you all these things shall come on this generation

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25. Jesus looked upon such a course of expected miracle working as a harking back to the olden days of ignorant magic and the degraded practices of the savage medicine men

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26. Legend made Thugra Khotan more than human; his worship yet lingered in a mongrel degraded cult, whose votaries stamped his likeness on coins to pay the way of their dead over the great river of darkness of which the Styx was but the material shadow

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27. The nameless horror had been taking even more awful shape, since she had recognized the coin in the Shemite's hand the night before—one of those secretly molded by the degraded Zugite cult, bearing the features of a man dead three thousand years

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28. With its absurd and degraded giants

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29. She was extremely pleased with this “acquisition” from “The Imperial House Diamond Boutique” – it helped to make up for some of the damages her family had suffered at the hands of Hu Lyang – yet she was not satisfied…it was still not enough! She thought of the rape and defilement of her grand-daughter Marianne by Hu Lyang and how degraded and violated she had felt – she was still receiving psychological counselling…

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30. 11 Pilate spoke more truly than he knew when, after Jesus had been scourged, he presented him before the multitude, exclaiming, "Behold the man!" Indeed, the fear-ridden Roman governor little dreamed that at just that moment the universe stood at attention, gazing upon this unique scene of its beloved Sovereign thus subjected in humiliation to the taunts and blows of his darkened and degraded mortal subjects

31. To the southwest dwell scattered clans of degraded, cave-dwelling savages, whose speech is of the most primitive form, yet who still retain the name of Picts, which has come to mean merely a term designating men—themselves, to distinguish them from the true beasts with which they contend for life and food

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32. When Baloh tried the shield degraded by 3 points more

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33. Then it degraded to 4 electrons

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34. She resented the white religious systems that condoned rape through silence and degraded women with blame

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35. A degraded battery pack will reduce performance and fuel economy, but not leave the car inoperable

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36. It however climbed slowly and its high altitude performances degraded quickly as it went up

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37. from the room into a storm of hysterical tears, degraded even in defiance, damned

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38. Severely handicapped by their degraded computers and their sick crews, the Morg cruisers fared badly against the massive missile salvo fired by the Human cruisers of Konovalov’s force

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39. The carving had been so degraded

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40. ” said George, “It’s very stylised and degraded but the letters

41. In the following years his eyesight degraded to the level of legal blindness

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42. paying attention to your sound becomes degraded by the lack of

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43. Poor degraded wretches

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44. The word “abased” in the above verse means to be degraded or humiliated – to be lowered or brought down

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45. The basic molecular structure of what remains is also degraded and nutritionally inferior

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46. And what is man now?� A fallen creature, a ruin, a being that shows the marks of corruption all over, his heart like Nebuchadnezzar, degraded and earthly, looking down and not up,�his affections like a household in disorder, calling no man master, all extravagance and confusion,�his understanding like a lamp flickering in the socket, impotent to guide him, not knowing good from evil,�his will like a rudderless ship, tossed to and fro by every desire, and constant only in choosing any way rather than God's

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47. He wrote editorials and appeared on debate shows, promoting his anti-Dark Age agenda, and degraded those who doubted him during his first term

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48. degraded and their soles have worn-out, leaving them unsafe for running

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49. that this Soul within us can also descend to an inferior, degraded level

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50. of the Ramayana, even the mind possessed of knowledge is degraded to

51. these wicked and degraded persons have a feeling of enmity to me

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52. he hurls such degraded persons down into hell

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53. lower to the most degraded state

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54. It has degraded too much

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55. abandon, the comparatively degraded occupation of iron-smelting

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56. He could not forget how he had been degraded in front of all the people in the middle of the street with no thought given to the fact that he was noble and well-connected, and how he had been beaten in the police-station, causing terrible injury and unbearable pain which needed a long period of treatment in the hospital

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57. He resisted them but they degraded, spit on, and tortured him, then they took him to be killed and crucified

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58. She cried, she who was once the pride of the nation has now been degraded into a harlot

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59. There was also a fair sprinkling of white men, equally degraded

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60. If you don't, you'll be laying up a wretched, perhaps a degraded future for yourself

61. Poor certainly, but not the most degraded or depraved

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62. All the inmates looked so pale, dehumanised and degraded

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63. to it is obviously degraded

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64. will fail of making a degraded child of sin a child of

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65. head on with Newtonian accepted principles and therefore it is degraded and denounced, just because it

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66. Furthermore… if the Russians had not fallen in love with their fucking Czar and their corrupt nobility; who taxed, killed, brutalized and degraded them for 1,000 fucking years; they would not have destroyed the land they live on

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67. You can complain about how the quality of life has been degraded

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68. You can point to how the quality of drinking water has been degraded

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69. You can point to how even the milk of human mothers has been degraded and poisoned by toxic residues and chemicals that came from how they were raised and what they ate and drank

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70. Simply because symbols can be generally used to mean roughly the same thing; human perception is degraded enough to think-perceive that all air is the same, all apples are the same, all leaves are the same

71. It was by this betrayal of their own humanity and freedom and self-respect that the lower classes of England degraded themselves into becoming running dogs for the English Royal Crown… and then later, as running dogs of western imperial capitalism

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72. That is how deeply chinese culture has degraded its own people

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73. Even in affluent countries today with an overabundance of food: the lack of variety in diet persists and is further degraded by the prevalence and preference of processed food over unprocessed food

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74. The Zionists found a backward people; even more degraded and ignorant, and poorer than they were; and invaded their land and set up their new instant cult-Nation, based upon a three thousand year-old claim that their ancestors had once lived there

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75. Degraded and treated like gladiatorial slaves, just like the slave auctions of Rome… like the Roman professional killers called gladiators; bought and sold for the games

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76. The Carolingian myths of Europe were kept alive by minstrels singing the praises of long-dead Kings who they lauded and praised and whitewashed: until the entire masses of the poor of Europe were slowly hoodwinked into believing, that the OLDE Kings and rulers of rulers were ‘noble’ and ‘good’ and ‘spiritual’… not like the living Kings were: who killed them and degraded them and starved and robbed them and hated them

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77. � Whatever doubts we may feel about such actions, the fabric of deception that we weave engulfs us until the meaning perspective that dominates our choices holds that the most expedient action, no matter how degrading or degraded, offers the only real value for our identity and ego driven lives

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78. � When that turns into competition, we often, if not always, lose our sense of personal achievement and turn to the more degraded desire to beat someone else

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79. The huge explosion of machines gave them the arrogance of using that artificial power: it also degraded humans into being used as machines and it brought about the opposite human reaction of labor unrest and strikes and justly so: in Russia alone there were 2

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80. He had a hard time ironing out the exact costs of degraded waterways in a way that made a compelling argument for investing in water quality protection

81. 'Look at this!' she shouted, sweeping her hand across the photographs of the degraded dog, the ravished young mother, and the chain-sawed school children, 'Has this sort of thing got to carry on – because you're a bit squeamish? How many more innocent victims have got to be debauched, tortured and murdered – because of you?'

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82. Her bodily systems look at your body as being part of a whole and they fix what’s found degraded in your body the same way it continually does in Raya’s

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83. Lecky, demand of us,—do you not know that the belief in evil spirits has been one of the commonest, one of the most vulgar and malignant, types of the superstition which has darkened earth and sky, and degraded human life in every climate where it takes possession of the soul? Do you not know that heathenism has always dwelt largely on this gloomy dogma; that it forms half the so-called religions of India, Japan, and China; and has lain at the root of all the worst corruptions of Christianity during the last eighteen centuries? Do you not know that it has been the custom of every ignorant age to attribute to malign spiritual agency, to evil genii, half the phenomena of nature, and half the events in Providence; and that the progress of science has been a hard fought battle with this old enemy of knowledge and truth, which has been dislodged from its position only after ages of inquiry, of observation, and careful study of nature and man? Do you not know that the unreformed tendency of humanity is always to believe in evil more than in good, even in a God who is no better than a devil, and to attribute to the Supreme Eternal Power thoughts and passions which are absolutely contrary to the laws of justice and truth?

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84. (5) In the days of Isaiah the prophet the practice of 'seeking to the dead,’ forbidden by the Mosaic law, was rife in the degraded state of the nation (Isaiah viii

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85. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me

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86. "He---he sort of degraded me

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87. If we cannot argue that all barbarism is a degraded civilization, neither can we set any limits to the depth of degradation to which the human race may sink through war, disease, or isolation

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88. We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected

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89. "I have been so far forbearing with you, sir," he said quietly; "not that I was ignorant of your miserable, degraded character, but I felt you were only partly responsible for that; and Catherine wishing to keep up your acquaintance, I acquiesced---foolishly

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90. Next, as to war; what are to be the relations of your soldiers to one another and to their enemies? I should be inclined to propose that the soldier who leaves his rank or throws away his arms, or is guilty of any other act of cowardice, should be degraded into the rank of a husbandman or artisan

91. Yes, he said, I see that there are--a few; but the people, speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded and enslaved

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92. This meant that the signal could be substantially degraded by angulation such as we encountered on the hill

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93. When Crass, Philpot, Easton and Bundy entered, the landlord, a well-fed, prosperous-looking individual in white shirt-sleeves, and a bright maroon fancy waistcoat with a massive gold watch-chain and a diamond ring, was conversing in an affable, friendly way with one of his regular customers, who was sitting on the end of the seat close to the counter, a shabbily dressed, bleary-eyed, degraded, beer-sodden, trembling wretch, who spent the greater part of every day, and all his money, in this bar

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94. As he walked through the crowded streets holding Frankie by the hand, Owen thought that to voluntarily continue to live such a life as this betokened a degraded mind

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95. Not merely had she degraded herself; she had degraded

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96. feeling utterly crushed and degraded, swallowed all that remained of his pride and went like a beaten dog to see the relieving officer, who took him before the Board, who did not think it a suitable case for out-relief, and after some preliminaries it was arranged that Linden and his wife were to go into the workhouse, and Mary was to be allowed three shillings a week to help her to support herself and the two children

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97. If he lived, it would be to grow up with his body deformed and dwarfed by unnatural labour and with his mind stultified, degraded and brutalized by ignorance and poverty

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98. They humiliated, degraded and pauperized those who received them, and the existence of the societies prevented the problem being grappled with in a sane and practical manner

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99. What a degraded

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100. The great numbers on their backs, as if they were street doors; their coarse mangy ungainly outer surface, as if they were lower animals; their ironed legs, apologetically garlanded with pocket-handkerchiefs; and the way in which all present looked at them and kept from them; made them (as Herbert had said) a most disagreeable and degraded spectacle