| 单词 | ignobly |
| 例句 | Earl Spencer is a descendant of Charles II, "but ignobly, through a series of mistresses". Cromwell coffin plate up for auction 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z But a running debate about whether the ends justify the means in police work never ignites, and the movie climaxes ignobly with a plot point involving a machine that injects drugs into coffee. ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z His journey to moguldom began ignobly, with Facemash.com, a meanspirited site that encouraged his fellow male students at Harvard College to rate women on campus by their looks. The Facebook Movie Told Us What We Needed to Know About Mark Zuckerberg 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Not only did that ignobly end the Pony Express, it also ended Russell’s career as an entrepreneur. Why the Short-Lived Pony Express Still Fascinates Us 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z The portrayal of a young Jewish soldier ignobly demanding religious loyalty from his Army superior — also Jewish — angered critics who worried about negative depictions of Jews. Philip Roth, seminal author of comical and simmering discontents, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The portrayal of a young Jewish soldier ignobly demanding religious loyalty from his Army superior – also Jewish – angered critics who worried about negative depictions of Jews. Philip Roth, seminal author of comical and simmering discontents, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z The alacrity with which Mrs Clinton trumpeted an ignobly small win in Kentucky on the same day was another indicator of that. Hillary’s heartbern 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The Cardinals’ 11-5 season last year, their best since moving to St. Louis, is largely forgotten, perhaps because they ignobly lost to a 7-8-1 Panthers team in the first round of the playoffs. For the N.F.L.’s Most Potent Team, Look Past the Unbeatens 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z I decided that I had not only wasted my life but had acted ignobly in taking money from Laurene. Louise Erdrich: “The Big Cat.” 2014-03-24T04:00:00Z Strangely, the Carnegies left a hole in the block between their house and the school that the Cooper-Hewitt uses most ignobly for a conglomeration of trucks and Dumpsters. Streetscapes: The Grandest Block in New York 2014-03-21T20:59:02Z The game concluded as ignobly as it began. Phillies 16, Mets 1: Reeling Mets Hit Bottom in 16-1 Loss to Phillies 2012-09-21T02:35:48Z One need not dwell on the character of the reigning house, which, brought ignobly to the throne, has been consistently ignoble from the first until the accession of her present Most Gracious Majesty. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The man on whom the storm had fallen bore it not ignobly. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But ever and anon, when respect and awe neared the oppressive, he rolled off his horse so ignobly and funnily that even the ambassador was fain to burst out laughing. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Or is it by the jealous powers concealed, That I must bend, and they ignobly yield? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Claes, Ulenspiegel, and the donkey, astonished, saw thus passing before them an immense variety of bellies, broad, long, high, pointed, proud, firm, or falling ignobly upon their natural props. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z The vocalization of our countrymen is really, and not conventionally, so ignobly awful that the process of hardening oneself thereto is very slow, and would in your case be impossible. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z I am so abjectly, so ignobly fond of not "travelling." The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Nevertheless, he ignobly denies the moral decency of his doctrine of Law when later on he coldly and dryly remarks: All that the state commands is just, all that it forbids is unjust. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z That not in vain Nor yet ignobly ye shall serve, I place My word here for an oath, mine oath for act To be hereafter. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z So we passed over La Panne, as the two leaders flew bravely along the coast soaring upwards like swallows, while we followed gamely but ignobly behind. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Shall he perish ignobly like a hunted beast? 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z As the donkeys wended their way up the steep roads, Mr. Holland was advised to get off and carry his carrier; but he knew the Cintra donkey of old, and sat ignobly still. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z With all his liberality of sentiment it had never entered the thoughts of the baronet that a man of his race could choose ignobly, or look beneath the rank in which he was born. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z He chafed the more as his imagination pictured his rival leading, or rather forcing Virginia to the altar, while he was thus ignobly detained. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z She interrupted, “You enter fresh from your worst infamy, last instance of a long outrage—throw off hate’s celestiality, show me a mere man’s hand ignobly clenched against the supreme calmness of the dead poet.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z This it is that made him, unreasonably sometimes, ignobly never, the champion of the poor, the helpless, the outcast. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Are they to be more ignobly treated now that the people have become patrons? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z I know my uncontrollable agitation has betrayed much, and there is little doubt but she will finish what I have so ignobly begun. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z I hate to say it, but they're making a tame cat of him—they're using him ignobly, I tell you—and that's the truth—if he had a friend with courage enough to tell him! The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Our disgust we cannot bridle When we see some public idol, Who is earning a colossal weekly salary, Having long ignobly pandered To the questionable standard Of intelligence that blooms in pit and gallery. Familiar Faces 2011-01-26T03:00:30.173Z She transformed into a quatuor the ignobly famous trio whom the caricaturist Gillray so frequently exposed to ridicule and shame in his cruel sketches. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z He and Doctor Hickey went in at the gate with the hounds; I hesitated ignobly in the mud. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Mrs. Pierson, tell me frankly, do you wish that the bullet which so ignobly tore my back had finished its work, so that the present summing up would have been avoided? Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z I was born to the position, but I served you proudly, not ignobly. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z It was a long year before I came back, unscathed as to my skin, but with its contents ignobly depreciated and reduced, on a visit to 7, Mulcaster Park. Witching Hill Here spoke, if somewhat ignobly, the character of the purchaser. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They were in imminent danger of perishing ignobly in the ditch, without even striking a blow in their own defence. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 A year later he died ignobly by the revolver of a Western rowdy, in the course of a drunken brawl. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 Velasquez ignobly and cruelly condemned the heroic patriot to be burned alive; but religiously the fanatic invader wished, though he burned the body, to save the soul. Hernando Cortez Makers of History I tried to acquire the accomplishment once, and ignobly failed. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) For America marches in the van of human progress, and if she falters, if she ignobly turns back, woe is to the world! Cudjo's Cave Suppose a volume is dirty, and ignobly so? By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Never had the supreme tribunal of justice abased itself more ignobly than when it listened so complaisantly to the king, and approved without qualification an organized massacre perpetrated unblushingly under its very eyes. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 She had no excuse to act ignobly, but had she any for being unmaidenly? Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 Blest Continent, while groaning nations round Bend to the servile yoke, ignobly bound, May ye be free—nor ever be opprest By murd'ring tyrants, but a land of rest! The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant My Friends; my Sons, ignobly, basely slain, Are more than murder'd, more than lost by Death. Ponteach The Savages of America This was the price, she told herself, of having been weaker than he; of having behaved more ignobly! Sunlight Patch As for the position of women in despotisms," we continued, "we should confess that it seemed to be as ignobly subordinate as that of women in republics. Imaginary Interviews To die a prince, or live a slave— Thy choice is most ignobly brave! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 I for one have always gloried in the name of Woman's Rights, and pitied those of my sex who ignobly declared they had all the rights they wanted. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II If I looked back at all to the land of dreams, the placid figure beneath the Tree of Enlightenment took on the aspect of a fool's idol, ignobly self-manacled, pitiful and irksome in remembrance. Apologia Diffidentis To die a prince—or live a slave— Thy choice is most ignobly brave.' Studies in Literature and History And as for Custer and his men, they fell while ignobly, and without right or authority, invading the peaceful home of Sitting Bull and his people. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 So your comic force would in equal glory have rivaled Even the Greeks themselves, though now you ignobly are vanquished. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Thus ignobly perished the greatest general of his age. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality And thus ignobly he who had slain men by thousands and conquered an empire came to his death. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Since, however, you are most ignobly virtuous, I have tried to turn the affair to the best advantage. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Ministers have their time in their own hands; they have no office hours; and, I suppose, a minister's life may be more ignobly idle than any other professional man's. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 So the fine promise of his youth dies ignobly, and is laid in the grave of Demas! Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet Apparently there was nothing for me to do but ignobly to take care of myself—but now, God be thanked! The Squirrel-Cage This same flag was within a few years ignobly hauled down during the signing of the Convention at Pretoria, and formally buried by a party of Englishmen and loyal natives. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 "Yes, his son, who stands here at my side, ignobly bound and menaced with a shameful death!" Monte-Cristo's Daughter And J. H. M. tells us, "The late Lord Ellenborough applied the line somewhat ignobly, when speaking of bristles, in a dispute between two brushmakers." Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. In Boston, the people received with dismay the news of the failure of an expedition which had ended so ignobly and involved them so heavily in debt. Canada It is thus that ideals die; not in the conventional pageantry of honoured death, but sorrily, ignobly, while one's head is turned. Personality in Literature By examination of its terms, it will be seen how far and how ignobly the Government went on the road to concession. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 On their part, we hope none of these places will forget that it is bound to the arts and to itself not to build ignobly in memory of its great. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 To die a Prince—or live a slave— Thy choice is most ignobly brave! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Reed laughed, despite the fact that the encounter with Mrs. Brenton's new theology had left him feeling most ignobly weak. The Brentons Extreme religionists may audaciously fancy that the judgment of God upon Franklin may be severe; but it would be gross disloyalty for his own kind to charge that his influence has been ignobly material. Benjamin Franklin Meaning that destiny had behaved ignobly to his father, after all. Clayhanger A mere man's hand ignobly clenched against Yon supreme calmness," she will interpose: "Such as you see me! Browning's Heroines Who could have imagined a situation in which whimsical Destiny had ironically stooped down from her high place to dabble ignobly in a murderer's ghastly plot? The Hand in the Dark I could see she thought I was lying ignobly. Man and Maid The victor must advance to triumph with blown trumpets and beaten drums; and in solitude there must follow the reaction of despair, the fear that one has disgraced oneself, seemed clumsy and dull, done ignobly. Joyous Gard Never was warrior so ignobly driven or dragged from a field of victory. Watch Yourself Go By Galileo was then kept in exile for the rest of his days, died, and150 was buried ignobly, apart from his family, without fitting ceremony, without monument or epitaph. The Necessity of Atheism That is ignobly passionate chiaroscuro, rejoicing in darkness rather than light. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Would you have him cling ignobly to life like that poor dandy whom he has sent to herd with savages? The Captain of the Kansas Hence she thus might act ignobly—in her exile, reft of friends, Soul-disturbed by her great sorrow—in the excess of her despair. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems This was the great ship that afterwards sank ignobly at its anchorage at Spithead, with "twice four hundred men," a tale which, for every English boy, is made famous in Cowper's immortal ballad. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes It knows that in an inexpressibly profound sense whosoever would ignobly save his life loses it, but whosoever would nobly lose his life saves it. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Why, after having so long infatuatedly clung to Guizot, did he at once ignobly relinquish him? Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle The attempt to intimidate had ignobly failed, and had recoiled upon the attempter. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Suffice it to say there is nothing that besots a man more completely and lowers him more ignobly to the level of the brute. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals Lord Edward Somerset, who commanded the Household Brigade, was unhorsed, and saved his life by scrambling dexterously, but ignobly, through a hedge. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes A few are ignobly successful; the many fail, and are miserable; and the subtle anarchy of selfishness finds its issue in madness and revolution. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc Don't imagine I'm ignobly lying down all the time, wrapped in a blanket. The Helpmate General Hull had ignobly surrendered his force to the enemy at the head of the Lake, General Winchester's army had been lost to the Government, and General Van Rensselaer had been defeated at Niagara. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 Well," thought I, as I looked at Kickums, ignobly cropping up a bit of grass, "I have done a very good thing, no doubt, and ought to be thankful to God for the chance. Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor The Agamemnon failed to weather the shoulder of the Middle Ground, and went ignobly ashore, and the scour of the tide kept her fast there, in spite of the most desperate exertions of her crew. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Each man would squat upon his clearing in the forest, ignobly independent, brutally content. The Quest of the Simple Life Broken thus in fortune and honour, Mr. Dombey yet falls not ignobly. Life of Charles Dickens But the great mass are both badly taught, and are also brought up on a lower plane than is right, brought up ignobly. Matthew Arnold Which of us has not nobly striven, and ignobly failed, to preserve our honest purpose without challenging the taste of our friends? Americans and Others Dear Mr. Ruskin, England has done terribly ill, ignobly ill, which is worse. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Thus ignobly fell the noblest of the ancient Germans, the man whose patriotism saved the realm of the Teutonic tribes from becoming a province of the empire of Rome. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German Never had a pompous expedition ended more ignobly: they had started out to attack a fierce black bear, and unexpectedly were overturned by a large-sized pig, which resented the interference with his slumber. Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 Under the conflict thus begun the long-tolerated barbarous institution itself was destined ignobly to perish. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Oh, rather let me lose, Than so ignobly trifle with his heart. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 The surroundings were ignobly ugly, as eggshells and scraps of newspaper trodden into waste ground are ugly. The Judge She certainly has a most divine power of flinging herself away, whether nobly or ignobly, which forms both her strength and her weakness. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis It remains to be seen if the present struggle must not ignobly fail in France, still mindful of its early vows, in spite of its Emperor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 The trouble with me," continued Malcourt, "is that I possess a streak of scientific curiosity that you lack; which is my eternal undoing and keeps me poor and ignobly busy. The Firing Line One night I found him crying silently ... but somehow not ignobly ... this made me shift about in my actions toward him, and see how miserable my conduct had been.... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The princes and nobles of the French court received from Paul large pensions, while, at the same time, he ignobly made them feel that he was their master and they were his slaves. The Empire of Russia From this, however, he could not be persuaded to abstain, and so made havoc of his genius, and terminated, prematurely and ignobly enough, his professional career. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Yet was he tempted, not ignobly, but by reason of his love for her. The Wings of the Morning I chose my word badly," said Rand, with the good-nature that always disarmed; "I shall not weep over my enemy, I only mean that I would not ignobly exult. Lewis Rand In his sleep he was ignobly conquered, and Del Bishop, who was with him much, studied his restlessness and gave a ready ear to his mumbled words. A Daughter of the Snows And meanwhile the old Rome that he found on his return in 29,— brick-built ignobly at best, and now decaying and half in ruins, —was giving place to a true imperial city. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 O thou most noble, here ignobly laid, Even enemies methinks must mourn thy fate! The Seven Plays in English Verse Sensible and patriotic Americans have not, of course, tamely and ignobly submitted to the obvious evils of their political and economic condition. The Promise of American Life But the young men and women, the children, were they too to grow up, and grow old like these—the same smiling, stunted, ignobly submissive creatures? Marcella Against the former, adult man, in whom reason is developed, may battle, though ignobly, and, for himself, ruinously; and against the latter oftentimes he must struggle, to escape ignominious shipwreck. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Most of the men concerned in it he either held for honest fanatics or despised as flatterers of the mob--ignobly pliant. The Testing of Diana Mallory You really mean, "I should like to tomahawk you, and scalp you afterwards!"—but this sentiment you ignobly retain in your own bosom. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Whose leadless weapon once ignobly blew Its smoke in six directions to assert Your lack of appetite for others' dirt? Black Beetles in Amber If you were to wander across the court, as I did to-day, and look into the Sales Shop, you would see the presentation sword of this last-generation Carnegie, ignobly slicing bacon for an Indian customer. The New North But not all are true; some, who have been especially favored, ignobly flee. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Now Mr. Prohack had directed the taxi to his daughter's dance studio, and perhaps it was the intention to do so that had made him steal ignobly out of the house. Mr. Prohack His love-letters are often ignobly inept, and nearly always spoilt by the crass provincialism of the refined and cultivated hermit. The Author's Craft The portraits flattered; but only a few guessed that they flattered ignobly; scarcely any even of the artists guessed that. The Pretty Lady It is really a far more civilised thing, and often stands for a higher degree of force and honour, to be able to bear contradiction not ignobly. Father Payne The Italians are the worn-out scum of ancient Rome, getting the better of us ignobly. A Tramp's Sketches Of those who venture in the contest some achieve success; others strive feebly and fail ignobly. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 What! going, Tommy?' he continued, as Mr. Thomasson, unable to bear his raillery or the girl's fiery scorn, turned and fled ignobly. The Castle Inn Your birth and fortunes were no small advantages to you.—You acted not ignobly by my passionate brother. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 "I will see whether I cannot put him in the wrong," he burst out, in the debased voice of an ignobly angry man. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage She felt at once enhanced and protected by the ignobly dressed crowd about her. The Bent Twig Landed, and all safe at last! our much-abused, lock-broken, unhinged portmanteau unpacked and laid ignobly to rest under the household eaves! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 For wine is a living thing, as the man said in Bordeaux, and it must be ignobly boiled and destroyed before turning into a distilled spirit. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Women understand that ancient weakness, of course; for it is one of their most important means of defense, but can be used ignobly. Alice Adams The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Certainly no man ever fell so ignobly, and by such ignoble instruments, as I did. De Profundis His opinions are ill-defended and easily abandoned: and, despairing of ever resolving by himself the hardest problems of the destiny of man, he ignobly submits to think no more about them. Democracy in America — Volume 2 I hate myself when I think of the depth to which I have stooped in permitting myself to think tenderly of one so ignobly born, but I love him! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Half of a fife-rail had been shot through the foresail, and the sky made a patch of glorious blue in the ignobly soiled canvas. Youth, a Narrative In accordance, therefore, with the wish of the Pope and the orders of the Inquisition, Galileo was buried ignobly, apart from his family, without fitting ceremony, without monument, without epitaph. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom They rise to Alpine heights of pure wisdom and power, leaving him to flounder ignobly in the mire of his own fatuity. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation How thin my legs were! and how miserably clad—in old prison trousers, greasy, stained, and frayed, and ignobly kneed—and what boots! Peter Ibbetson The maiden treats my suit with scorn, Rejects my humble gift, my lady; She says I am ignobly born, And cuts my hopes adrift, my lady. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Then, all ignobly scrambling to his feet And whinneying a whinney like a bleat, He would pursue himself around the lot And—do the whole thing over, like as not!… A Child-World I am very insignificant, and shall go out ignobly. The Trespasser So they inbreed ignobly for lack of outside favour, and are dying from the face of the land through dire diseases, just as their reputations have already died from men's respect. The Forest Not in their marble beauty do they thus ignobly impress us,—but calm, fair, strong, and immortal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 A throne which is filled most ignobly at present, and only filled at all through my birth and my family's influence. Three Weeks We grow nobly like what we adore through love and ignobly like what we contemplate through hate. Imaginations and Reveries Some people seem to think that God loves us so much, as they would say—so little, so ignobly, as I would say—as that He only desires us to be happy. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms It is always easier, as flesh judges, to live ignobly than to live as Jesus Christ would have us live. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes The "bed" was not made for those knightly fish to lie ignobly upon. My Tropic Isle The fracture somewhat relieved the machinery; we did better work after than before the accident, but we were ignobly towed into dock by the ship's boats. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 We do not regard the life which closed in the martyr's fire as ended ignobly. Imaginations and Reveries "I have the pleasure," said he, "to present a lady who accuseth the Earl of Bothwell of wedding and ignobly deserting her." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction It has remained ignobly idle in the inkstand, in the folio, or on the bench. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) Alas! the day That thou shouldst perish, so ignobly too, And in my kingdom; what a wretched fate! The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 But if Mahomet was superstitious—if he felt that fate had doomed him, and that resistance would be useless—he resolved not to fall ignobly. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) If there are ten millions of men, women, and children who live, and live not ignobly, by Judaism, can it be contended that Judaism is obsolete? Judaism So far as it was founded on pride, injustice, and selfishness, it ignobly disappeared. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Yet shalt thou barter soul and pride For things ignobly vain! Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems From all over the state there arose grumblings that the Sangamon contingent of the party had been so ignobly outwitted. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Go, for thee with what trust and belief There beat not ignobly a heart That has strength yet to strive with the grief To have worshipped the trifler thou art! The Poems of Schiller — First period But they still felt the shreds of Camille, which were ignobly squeezed between them, freezing their skins in parts, whilst in others they were burning hot. Theresa Raquin The last glimpse of a place you may have grown to like or love is, ignobly, interminable rows of the bedroom-windows in mean streets, a few hovels, some cinder-heaps, and a factory chimney. Letters from America If "Carpe diem" is Pater's motto, the hour is not to be plucked ignobly; if style is his watchword in art, style alone cannot make great Art, though it may make good Art. Without Prejudice Hear ye the words I speak, for they are true: And if my speech be wise, despise it not, As of one worthless, or ignobly born. The Iliad Ah! never may he see his native land, But feed the vultures on this hateful strand, Who seeks ignobly in his ships to stay, Nor dares to combat on this signal day! The Iliad Time must have soon laid my gray hair ignobly in the grave; and to enter it thus covered with honorable wounds, in glory, has long been my prayer. The Scottish Chiefs So that if a man love nobly he knows love through infinite pity, unspeakable trust, unending sympathy; and if ignobly through vehement jealousy, sudden hatred, and unappeasable desire; but unveiled love he never knows. Rosa Alchemica It began ignobly; it continues through all this pain and bewilderment, a pure, clean current, running to the deep, still sea of dreams.... The Hidden Children And not only has it failed in its management, but it has failed deplorably, ignobly, horribly. Revolution, and Other Essays Alike regretted in the dust he lies, Who yields ignobly, or who bravely dies. The Iliad Thaddeus stood it - I was going to say nobly, but I think it were better put ignobly - but he had a good excuse for so doing. Paste Jewels But selfish misery and selfish fear are no less ugly than selfish happiness; a person who suffers ignobly becomes only disgusted and disagreeable, and more selfish than ever. King Midas: a Romance Avoiding being trampled upon by a judicious use of the knife, I lost no time in escaping from a place so ignobly dangerous. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 I knew in some degree what his life had been; by force of passionate love I understood, or thought I understood him; and I feared most ignobly. The Emancipated The tenderness which dimmed his eyes would have changed to misery had he dreamed it possible that his own boy could palter so ignobly with the opportunities of life. The Whirlpool For a few days, they were coming and going continually; while, thus ignobly fast by the foot, we were fain to give passive audience. Omoo He did not suspect the designs and hopes of his former comrades; and he could not, he would not believe them capable of ignobly betraying him for gold. The Honor of the Name For a moment, I was really in doubt whether the skilled hand of the great surgeon would not be ignobly employed in boxing my ears. Poor Miss Finch Aruns, as he stole away, glad but frightened, was struck by a secret arrow, launched by one of the nymphs of Diana's train, and died ignobly and unknown. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Not lightly be thy citadel subdued; Not ignobly, not untimely, Take praise in solemn mood; Take love sublimely. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Neither had he the abstraction of a student, for his accounts were kept with an accuracy which struck us, who dealt at the store, as ignobly practical, and even malignant. Under the Redwoods Shame on her that she chooses so ignobly! A Face Illumined Never mind! on we go, faster and faster; Lizzy obliged to be most ignobly carried, having had the misfortune to lose a shoe in the mud, which we left the boy to look after. Our Village I have said that Gilroy's parting warning rankled in his breast, but not ignobly. Susy, a story of the Plains A woman must have recourse to clumsy contrivances of india-rubber and gutta-percha if her silken skirts shall not trail ignobly in the dust. Gala-days Johnson could easily see that those persons who looked on a dance or a laced waistcoat as sinful, deemed most ignobly of the attributes of God and of the ends of revelation. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Rebels, we know, broke in, less ignobly, and tore many of them limb from limb, as a protest against the governing classes. Yet Again The road, the haystack, the park bench, the kitchen door, the bitter round of eleemosynary beds-with-shower-bath-attachment, the petty pickings and ignobly garnered largesse of great cities—these formed the chapters of his history. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Filling a noble office ignobly; doing a celestial task in a quietly infernal manner? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 Already, remembering the promise which he had given to de Gery, for the household troop that wriggled ignobly at his heels, he made exhibition of certain disdainful coldnesses, a deliberate pose of authoritative contradiction. The Nabob Of course, if she was the genuine Maid, the career of La Pucelle de France ends most ignobly. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies Oh, rather let me lose, Than so ignobly trifle with his heart. All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy It was only that it would seem like a proper consummation of all the evil that he had suffered directly or indirectly through this Andre-Louis Moreau that he should perish ignobly by his hand. Scaramouche And where is he would falter, Or turn ignobly back, When Duty's voice cries 'Forward,' And Honor lights the track? Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems The ignobly decent, as poor Biffen calls it, is so very far from that sphere in which you are naturally at home.' New Grub Street Young, noble, elegant, rich by millions, endowed with vigorous health, this last descendant of a great family squandered most foolishly and ignobly both his youth and his patrimony. The Mystery of Orcival Come, sermon me no further; No villainous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. Timon of Athens By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done To pluck me by the beard. King Lear Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem But that 't is shown ignobly and in treason. King Henry VI, Part 2 What I really aim at is an absolute realism in the sphere of the ignobly decent. New Grub Street But ever and anon, when respect and awe neared the oppressive, he rolled off his horse so ignobly and funnily, that even the ambassador was fain' to burst out laughing. The Cloister and the Hearth He will help me to get away from this wretched little village, where I vegetate ignobly, and eat my heart out day by day. Captain Fracasse The unblushing Macdonald, without even endeavouring to exculpate himself from the crime he was charged with, meanly endeavoured to reproach Sophia with ignobly defrauding him of his money... Love and Freindship [sic] Next year, loth to quit ignobly the quest he had taken up so eagerly, he put on the dress of a foreigner and went back to dwell with the king. The Danish History, Books I-IX That is the stamp of the ignobly decent life. New Grub Street In the lowest stratum of social thraldom, nowhere was the noble soul doomed quite to choke, and die ignobly. Latter-Day Pamphlets Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his public-school French. The Research Magnificent Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason. King Henry VI, Part 2 |
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