Word: shame
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spoke to the Animal, and said, "Come with me, and I will buy me a new Coat and we will be happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder, but alas! not a wiser child...
Felt they no whit of the shame which made much-enduring Ulysses...
Pain, hate, shame, wrong, and all life's darkest things...
...game should have been thrown back on to the seventh inning or forfeited to us, as our men were willing and anxious to go on. The umpire, however, not seeming to understand all the features of the case, gave the game to the Lowells, who departed glorying in their shame...
...than bygone times, although it may outrun them in a thousand other absurdities. To whatever quality it may be due, whether to common-sense, or lack of deference, or indolence, we no longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced...