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The quadrangle of the cloister was the scene of Cranmer's degradation.
Such acquiescence proves nothing but the degradation of the injured party.
Taunts and blows, water to draw, burdens to carry, degradation unspeakable!
In her degradation she saw herself the object of his loathing.
True, he regrets his own manifold mistakes, selfishness, and sensuous degradation.
The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced.
The moral degradation of an enforced stay in these dens is immeasurable.
I mean the degradation of being recognized by such a miserable outcast.
How easy for a party accepting this degradation to repudiate pecuniary obligations!
The degradation of woman (and of man) seems to be inextricably involved.
The old ignominy, the old degradation, had been all but intolerable.
Beside this degradation of woman, fear of her ever and anon reappears naively.
The enemies of royalty appeared to court the ostentatious display of its degradation.
They are too apt to be construed as proofs of impurity and degradation.
A vertigo seized her, and, as it were, a delirious longing for degradation.
The degradation of the species man is observed in some of its varieties.
One is conscious first of dejection, then of some hideous and abysmal degradation.
Ruin, disgrace, dishonor, degradation, an abyss of infamy; that is the matter.
He exposes with ruthless frankness the ugly realities of her present degradation.
She could endure any degree of privation, but not degradation and infamy.
A veneer of grace and elegance concealed the precocious degradation of the four beauties.
The words "shame and degradation" were ringing in her ears all dinner-time.
She would not suffer any degradation, death would be a boon instead.
It was a dreadful degradation; but necessity was equally imperious and lawless.
The other is sent to confinement, monotony, and degradation for fourteen years.
They deplore their moral degradation with the utmost sincerity and honesty.
The entire crowd hoots at them; and he rejoices in their degradation immeasurably.
What if all these years he had been an outcast, living in degradation?
What squalor and degradation inhabit these dens the health officers know.
Beside the degradation of woman, the fear of woman is repeatedly naively expressed.
In an age of darkness and degradation, chivalry developed the character of woman.
To what stage of degradation would his utter disillusion finally bring him!
He understood her reticence, and the degradation which could not be excused.
Could he survive ten days of the horror and squalor and degradation?
At best, she secured, not opportunity, but flattery, the preface to degradation.
Waiving the degradation to us, which that implies, they propose an impossibility.
What was it that produced this barrenness, this intellectual degradation in Constantinople?
"Remember the life-long degradation entailed by such an undignified proceeding, Don Michael."
Polygyny, indeed, must necessarily rest upon the subjection and degradation of women.
They attempted impossibilities when their subjects were sunk in sloth and degradation.
Degradation of rank, an aristocratic prelude, began what the revolution was to complete.
There was something too portentous, too tragic in the degradation of this man.
I was tingling with suppressed rage and flushed with a feeling of degradation.
No wonder that a mind like that of Goldsmith's writhed under the degradation!
That is a brutality left to man alone, with its companion degradation, drunkenness.
Who then would strive to raise the world out of its beastly degradation?
That captivity was not free of bloodshed, ill-treatment and degradation of various kinds.
He brought a deplorable report of the degradation and helplessness of the colonists.
It has been the cloak of debauchery and the excuse for sex degradation.
Their faces bore that unfeeling stamp, which springs from depravity and degradation.
He ordered, covering his degradation as he might in this tyrannical exercise of authority.
The degradation of cringing to the betrayers of our country would be our grave
Degradation awaits at the first blunder which it is not humanly possible to avoid.
Why will they accept degradation and punishment and infamy as their portion?
Merit can force its way into their ranks, and inefficiency entails degradation.
The general process, which comprises degradation and deposition, may be called gradation.
Poetry cannot, under pain of death or degradation, assimilate itself to science or morals.
They considered themselves favored to live by sufferance; we reject it as a degradation.
In such obedience there can be no degradation even where the laws are inflexible.
It is needless to tell of the intellectual degradation of the mass of seamen.
I descended step by step to the lowest depths of wretchedness and degradation.
The absence of the regimental sword might cause degradation, ruin militarily and socially!
The papacy had fallen to him at the crisis of its deepest degradation.
The inspired man feels the degradation of his country as a personal infliction.
In my innocent degradation it was still necessary to nourish the inner man.
Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degradation of labor.
Among the natives to be ignorant and uneducated, is a shameful condition of degradation.
The disintegration of the empire was followed by a hideous degradation of the papacy.
With such feelings as these no faintest hint of humiliation or degradation could mingle.
There she lay before his eyes in a deplorable state of misery and degradation.
His belief in the degradation of the country was enough to aggravate his complaint.
Still my material comfort and my early degradation engendered in me a cowardly inertia.
To delight in human misery is the last degree of earthly degradation and perversity.
What the offenses were which were punishable by degradation it is impossible to specify.
The country and people that have witnessed our degradation should also witness our exaltation.
The degradation of Indian manners has kept pace with the depopulation of the tribes.
And to such a degree of meanness and degradation could a well-born man degenerate!
With certain exceptional instances of regeneration, the progeny of degenerates presents progressive degradation.
The same complaints of the paucity of land, hunger and degradation he heard everywhere.
The influence of political place in this country has long spawned a social degradation.
Her acquiescence to her moral and mental degradation springs from a want of understanding.
The partition of Poland revealed to the French the political degradation of their country.
In addition to all this degradation, the bride sees others adorned with her spoils.
To talk of the degradation of labor, whether coerced or free, is, therefore, preposterous.
There is a degradation deep down below the memory that has withered into superstition.
Degradation was continuous after the region became land, though uplift may not have been.
How sad to think that such beauty should lead to misery, wretchedness, and degradation!
Of course religion has now become something quite different; it has been consigned to deep degradation.
Even in its degradation it revolted from the savage amusements which fascinated the Romans.
Then came the Penal Code, and to economical destitution was added utter social degradation.
John began to stutter now in the impotence of degradation which was upon him.
He'd been in low straits before, but this was about the depth in degradation.
The housemaids and our friend behind us, cannot bear any reference to the degradation.
I sing only of bitter days, I foretell everlasting slavery, degradation, and no end.
Many of the inhabitants of that district submitted to this new act of degradation.
There is hardly a more pitiable degradation than this for a man of high gifts.
The pathetic side of this preposterous feathered and bugled degradation he would fail to see.
Even you might be appeased if you could look into mine and see its sense of degradation.
She, a respectable woman, submitted to that degradation as if she were a street walker.
Oh, why should I be doomed to the degradation of bearing such a foolish appellation!