How many unnecessary humiliations and unpleasant duties do I undertake just for the sake of identifying myself with JESUS and Mary, and sharing their spirit?
It was here that JESUS came to stay, when He humbled Himself even to the death of the Cross; and here it is that He would have each one of His children wait till the humiliations of the valley have taught them to conquer self-love.
The life led by the unhappy woman at Vannier's, where she was a prey to this trio of scoundrels, was a purgatory of humiliations and misery.
His view of life is still pessimistic, but back of man's earthly disappointments and humiliations and sufferings he glimpses a higher existence to which this one serves merely as a preparation.
I don't think any man ever suffered so many humiliations as I have.
It is easy, therefore, to imagine what humiliations and privations must have awaited the novice who had still to earn a name.
Each of his great humiliationsfollowed as the natural result of crimes or blunders.
In 1763 France had suffered by her struggle with England humiliations and territorial losses far heavier than those suffered by her last war with Germany.
Never; he has had enough of certain humiliations which he does not care to remember.
Dona Clorinda was doubtless treating him badly, and he, in turn, was getting revenge for these humiliations and vexations by showing himself harsh and ironical with his friends.
Above all, they pointed to thehumiliations black soldiers suffered in (p.
At times, Walter White charged, these humiliations and abuses by civilians were condoned by military police.
The NAACP hammered away at the segregation angle, informing its public that the old system, which had fathered inequalities andhumiliations in the Army and in civilian life, was now being followed by the Navy.
Not the least of these were the benumbing discrimination suffered by black servicemen during training, the humiliations involved in their assignments, and the ineptitude of many of their leaders, who were most often white.
Some of these humiliations might have been less demeaning had the black soldier been convinced that he was a full partner in the crusade against fascism.
The trials andhumiliations of a week of care are followed by a day of peace and security.
In a moment he forgot all the past humiliations the father had brought upon his family, and understood why his mother remained silent when he, in his blindness, had wanted to protest against her seeming indifference.
But a man does not prepare himself to face all that out of Quixotic motives alone, knowing himself to be innocent and because he desires that another should be spared those awful humiliations and the chance of a disgusting and shameful death.
Rome now experienced the further disgrace of seeing her emperor fall into his enemy's power, and suffer all the humiliations of slavery at the hands of the haughty victor.
As Mrs. Chichester and Alaric passed out they little dreamt that the same relentless fate was planning still further humiliations for the unfortunate family and through the new and unwelcome addition to it.
All her rebellious spirit would soften under the spell of her imagination; and again all her dauntless spirit would assert itself under the petty humiliations the Chichester family frequently inflicted upon her.
His success, if it were success, deprived him of freedom of action, tied him beyond redemption to the chariot of government, and took away his last means of escape from the humiliations his enemies might inflict.
And so it is no wonder the ill-fated Hindus prefer temporary humiliations and the physical and moral sufferings of the "purification," to the prospect of general contempt until death.
Mussulmans of the present day are badly off and have to put up with more humiliations than even the Hindus.
Messer Leonardo was witness only last night of the humiliations to which I am daily subjected.
To what torturing humiliations you subjected me in bequeathing me nobility with poverty!
Humiliations are not to be taken into consideration where ruin stares us in the face!
For she had been bred in that strong sense of personal dignity which is the modern substitute for the abasements and humiliations of faith.
But mark this well: out of Prussia's humiliations came her ultimate strength; the vanquished, as is often the story of human life, was strengthened more than the victors.
All the humiliations he had previously endured were as nothing compared to the slights heaped upon the Fat Charmer in search of a wife.
And in the search for a wife he endured the most poignant humiliations that have overtaken even him in a long life spent in eating dirt.
Defeats were quickly forgotten; and Jackson's victory at New Orleans atoned for the humiliations of years.
It compensated for a score of humiliations suffered by the country in the preceding years.
If he had given no sign of life during the empire, it was because he had not been compelled to submit to the humiliations and suffering which so many of the emigrants were obliged to endure in their exile.
Suddenly precipitated from the social eminence which he had attained, he found, in the valley of humiliations into which he was cast, only hatred, distrust, and scorn.
He had to endure a succession of mortifications and humiliations similar to those which, about the same time, began to embitter the life of his friend Rochester.
She had undergone all possible humiliations and disasters.
For what she sought above all else in this liaison was revenge for the sorrows and humiliations of her youth.
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