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1. ’ I said, mortified that I could have overlooked Sam

2. I was mortified in the change that had come over her but I played along

3. “I know all that but I’m mortified that he would plan and rape Rosie because of me I just cant grasp such evil

4. I was mortified as I trotted along and the cheeks of my arse were flapping from the farting I was doing because I was shitting myself

5. ” I was mortified and so fucking angry that I could hardly talk but I said

6. He told the Military Policemen to take me out but I wasn’t really listening anymore as the shoved me towards the door in my wheelchair I noticed the Lieutenants face and it was both distraught and mortified

7. Had I been a Jew, (referring to Barry Stanton) I should have felt ―naked, mortified and outraged‖ over the insensitive comments made by an individual lacking cultural refinement

8. Needless to say, I was mortified

9. Pretty soon, someone notified me that the village was very hurt and mortified that I had been informed of the homage that Fuentesnuevas was planning for me, since they wanted it to be all a surprise

10. Ron and Louise were mortified, of course

11. He shrank into himself, hurt and mortified, when he read Rosemary's letter next day in his dusty study

12. It mortified me to know that the fox monster may have been here the whole time

13. I was predominantly mortified at having noticed his ripples and naturally slender bare body when I should have been chiefly concerned with his mutilated body

14. Gretchen would have been mortified, had she known, but they carefully kept their secret from her

15. He looked mortified

16. I was completely mortified and ashamed, but came clean to him about it

17. He became so mortified that he stared at his feet and blushed crimson

18. Mark had to fight not to laugh as he noticed that the two adults with her were thunderstruck at their child’s audacity, and absolutely mortified with embarrassment

19. “And still so unknowing of human ways! You’ve probably mortified the poor boy!”

20. her and she was mortified at the thought of the feel of

21. Most of all, I was mortified about

22. I sat there, confused and mortified while my friends stood around me, unable to get the

23. I was mortified: even

24. understand it; the battle was over, so why did he look so mortified? He crushed through his

25. I was mortified

26. ‘Stop looking so bloody mortified! I was a sailor for twenty years

27. Ellen was mortified when Maeve told Matthew that it was at her suggestion that she went to the dance that night when they first met

28. couldn’t see how mortified I was at her appearance

29. She was mortified then, just as she was mortified now

30. Bilo’s tea sprayed out of her mouth, she was mortified, her fair complexion turned bright red, she wanted to cry

31. Rani turned round and faced the mortified guests who were regretting their attendance at this wedding

32. Plus which, he was mortified and embarrassed in front of his friends

33. She was mortified

34. that my dad was dating one of her closest friends — I was mortified

35. mortified and humiliated to have anyone think my father was a child

36. !” I yelled as I collapsed on the bed, mortified

37. He had been particularly mortified when his intelligence officer had told him that the top American air ace in the Philippines was a woman

38. The mortified actress walked back to her previous place, avoiding the eyes of the other guests

39. We were mortified

40. mortified and horrified to their very cores

41. I, on the other hand, have never been so mortified in all my life (or subsequent death)

42. Shouting for help was a possibility, but he would be mortified if it

43. down the dairy aisle in Tescos wearing nothing but a mortified smile,

44. be mortified if she knew that her life might come to an end here in a barrel,

45. I could tell he was angry, mortified and determined to get justice; not just for Ruth but everyone who had been hurt in the storm

46. members, has not been mortified

47. The cripple was mortified when he saw the Cerberus agent

48. W-werd sprang from the house, his pale n-wird wig bouncing towards pigs then figs as he spr-werded after the cig-smoking Z-wurd, who was chasing the faux wounded F-wurd, who was charging forward towards the still mortified P-word, who was stumbling backwards towards the garden, still tr-werding his gun

49. She rounded the table and knelt beside Tadeo, holding his hand and looking mortified

50. She looked mortified and ashamed and horrified all at once but I couldn’t have cared less

1. The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors

2. “Maybe, I saw the way you and your friends all idolized him, and it mortifies me that these new kids still look up to him even after his death

3. and that mortifies me

4. I ought to have read more, for I find I don't know anything, and it mortifies me

1. 13 And you shall mortify it as your creature and quicken it as your work

2. mortify the deeds of the body

3. sensationalist media would ride the wave of public emotion and sentiment for all it’s worth; unwittingly plotting to darken and mortify the public conscience for many years to come by beating on the same tired drum over and over and over; always keeping tragedy front and center in the public conscious instead of joy and opportunity

4. Consider what Paul says: "Mortify your members which are upon the earth" (Col

5. They too had obstacles to contend with, lusts to mortify, trials to endure, hard places to fill, like any of yourselves

6. Some men mortify their senses through penances for

7. Mortify in us all envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness; pluck up these roots of bitterness out of our minds, and give us grace to love one another with a pure heart fervently, as becomes the followers of the Lord Jesus, who has given us this as his new commandment

8. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

9. 6:7, he advanced against it at once to mortify its simple lesson, bending it to agree with his selections of its figurative and misconstrued use

10. ’ 'If you live after the flesh, you shall soon and certainly die (me>llete ajpoqnh>skein); but if you, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, YE SHALL LIVE’ (Rom

11. She could not but smile to see the graciousness of both mother and daughter towards the very person-- for Lucy was particularly distinguished--whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify; while she herself, who had comparatively no power to wound them, sat pointedly slighted by both

12. This delay on the Colonel's side, however, did not seem to offend or mortify his fair companion in the least, for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards, and moving different ways, Mrs

13. anything that you can think of that is likely to mortify her

14. Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible

15. to take her place, but the mother, having once overheard Levin’s lesson, and noticing that it was not given exactly as the teacher in Moscow had given it, said resolutely, though with much embarrassment and anxiety not to mortify Levin, that they must keep strictly to the book as the teacher had done, and that she had better undertake it again herself

16. But how could she dare to awaken him, and let him know what he had been doing, when it would mortify him to discover his folly in respect of her? Tess, however, stepping out of her stone confine, shook him slightly, but was unable to arouse him without being violent

17. between my cousins, I was surprised to find how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the semisarcastic attentions of the other—Eliza did not mortify, nor Georgiana ruffle me

18. Our natural character is vicious; let us stifle natural desires and mortify the flesh

1. that was truly terrifying, mortifying, humiliating

2. Such sacrifices, though they might frequently be agreeable to the interest, are always mortifying to the pride of every nation; and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, they are always contrary to the private interest of the governing part of it, who would thereby be deprived of the disposal of many places of trust and profit, of many opportunities of acquiring wealth and distinction, which the possession of the most turbulent, and, to the great body of the people, the most unprofitable province, seldom fails to afford

3. And when, in order to raise those taxes, all or the greater part of merchants and manufacturers, that is, all or the greater part of the employers of great capitals, come to be continually exposed to the mortifying and vexatious visits of the tax-gatherers, this disposition to remove will soon be changed into an actual removing

4. hould you find yourself in the mortifying position of being carted off to Training Classes, never fear

5. " It continued, "nothing more mortifying to the pride of our sea power has ever happened in home waters”

6. Her next was mortifying

7. It was mortifying to think that an assistant suffragan had struck up a personal relationship with a duke

8. The thought of being stripped naked by lustful peasant girls was mortifying

9. The experience was mortifying

10. And what had Dwight got out of it? She hardly could face it, it was so extremely mortifying, but she couldn't help thinking that what Dwight had got out of it, being a youth perhaps developed in business instincts beyond his years but in harmony with his American parentage, was her social usefulness

11. Once more he was annoyed; and strange and mortifying was it to Miles, who so much hoped he had conquered his baser sides and could now no longer, by God's grace, be shaken out of his serenity, how frequently he had allowed himself to be annoyed during the last quarter of an hour

12. It was mortifying but it was just

13. With his gentle support, Joseph managed to survive this mortifying escapade; though he feared the residue might interfere with his future job prospects

14. "Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing," thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide

15. That her sister's affections were calm, she dared not deny, though she blushed to acknowledge it; and of the strength of her own, she gave a very striking proof, by still loving and respecting that sister, in spite of this mortifying conviction

16. I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I started up from my knees, and screamed out,

17. Jane felt her face flush as she remembered the mortifying incident in the sandpit, where Harper had accused her of assault

18. Still, in spite of this, Albert displayed his most dazzling and effective costumes each time he visited the theatres; but, alas, his elegant toilet was wholly thrown away, and one of the most worthy representatives of Parisian fashion had to carry with him the mortifying reflection that he had nearly overrun Italy without meeting with a single adventure

19. Besides being possessed by my sister's idea that a mortifying and penitential character ought to be imparted to my diet,—besides giving me as much crumb as possible in combination with as little butter, and putting such a quantity of warm water into my milk that it would have been more candid to have left the milk out altogether,—his conversation consisted of nothing but arithmetic

20. Then she reminds me that my entire livelihood is based on my mortifying myself so if I suddenly got sane I’d become unemployed

21. It was mortifying but Brooke smiled widely and said it was perfect because she thought she’d captured my essence

22. We had got well out on the country road when a somewhat mortifying incident occurred

23. There was something mortifying in the way he had said ‘Come, that’s good,’ as one says to a child when it leaves off being naughty, and still more mortifying was the contrast between her penitent and his self-confident tone; and for one instant she felt the lust of strife rising up in her

24. ” How mortifying is this?

25. Charlie wasn’t deft enough to avoid bringing a whole mortifying mound of soda bottles and newspapers and Styrofoam takeout containers crashing down around his Hush Puppies, but Sam just laughed again, and it wasn’t the kind of laughter that subtracted anything; it was a warm breeze lifting him up

26. It was mortifying

27. And to her the consciousness of having exceeded in words was peculiarly mortifying

28. The unhealthy nature of the site; the quantity and quality of the children’s food; the brackish, fetid water used in its preparation; the pupils’ wretched clothing and accommodations—all these things were discovered, and the discovery produced a result mortifying to Mr

29. This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough

30. To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the “how she should be dressed” was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in? And yet not to wear it! William had wanted to buy her a gold chain too, but the purchase had been beyond his means, and therefore not to wear the cross might be mortifying him

31. We had better put an end to this most mortifying conference

32. There had, in fact, been so much of message, of allusion, of recollection, so much of Mansfield in every letter, that Fanny could not but suppose it meant for him to hear; and to find herself forced into a purpose of that kind, compelled into a correspondence which was bringing her the addresses of the man she did not love, and obliging her to administer to the adverse passion of the man she did, was cruelly mortifying

33. I dined twice in Wimpole Street, and might have been there oftener, but it is mortifying to be with Rushworth as a brother

34. That her sister’s affections WERE calm, she dared not deny, though she blushed to acknowledge it; and of the strength of her own, she gave a very striking proof, by still loving and respecting that sister, in spite of this mortifying conviction

35. To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the "how she should be dressed" was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in? And yet not to wear it! William had wanted to buy her a gold chain too, but the purchase had been beyond his means, and therefore not to wear the cross might be mortifying him

36. Everybody at all addicted to letter-writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own

37. We had got well out on the country road, when a somewhat mortifying incident occurred

38. Don't be uneasy : I will explain the facts, but what I have just said is absolutely true; my whole life has been lost in mazes and perplexity, and suddenly they are all solved on such a day, at five o'clock this afternoon ! It's quite mortifying, isn't it ? A little while ago I should really have felt mortified

39. But he was too genuinely delighted, and that was mortifying

40. He had often tried to imagine such an event, but had found the picture too mortifying and exasperating, and had quietly dropped it

41. (It is so mortifying to rich and luxurious people to understand their position

42. And this is the more distressing and mortifying that even honest people of a genuinely noble way of thinking and, what is even more important, of straightforward and open dispositions, abandon the interests of honourable men and with all the qualities of their hearts attach themselves to the pernicious corruption, which in our difficult and immoral age has unhappily increased and multiplied so greatly and so disloyally

43. From this period, the United States have incurred the heaviest losses, and most mortifying humiliations

44. mortifying to see the conduct of the enemy vindicated and palliated, 696;

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