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In the mean time, Octavia who had been all this while waiting in distress and anxiety at Rome, hearing continually the most gloomy accounts of her husband's affairs, and the most humiliating tidings in respect to his infatuated devotion to Cleopatra resolved to make one more effort to save him.
"If we weigh all the unpleasantness of wedded life in too delicate a balance, my friend, I fear there would be little, indeed, that would escape condemnation as humiliating." Laodice raised her scarlet face to look in wonder at the Greek. The cold smiling lips dismayed her for a moment. "And thou seest no shame in this?" she faltered. "Thou sayest he is thy husband; why resent it?"
To come to an end of this humiliating page, rejecting all offers of company, I was accommodated with a wretched cupboard below the stairs, which smelt vilely of sour wine and mildewed cheese, and ruefully prepared to spend what sort of night I could, with my thoughts for bedfellows.
But the State, in the form and aspect of two companies of national bourgeois guards, entered by a door which they had forgotten to guard, swept the hall, and caused Bakounin to hasten back along the road to Geneva." Such indeed was the humiliating and vexatious ending of Bakounin's dream of an immediate social revolution. His sole reward was to be jostled, pinched, and robbed.
How could they, knowing the true God, exchange a worship so rational and elevated for the worship of stocks and stones? The explanation is a simple but a humiliating one. The worship of these foreign deities was accompanied with sensual excesses, which appealed to the strongest elementary passions of human nature.
The English strained every nerve to create a fleet that should put an end to this humiliating and disastrous situation. The preparations were carried out with such speed that on July 22 , Monk and Rupert anchored off the end of the Gunfleet shoal with a fleet of about 80 ships of the line and frigates.
Not that I want your money, but the thing's humiliating." "Do you think it isn't humiliating to me?" "Perhaps it is," said Charnock, with a half-ashamed look. "I admit I have been something of an ass, but you are mean, in a sense. What are you going to do with your money, if you don't intend to spend it?" "Use if for making more; anyhow, until I get enough." "When will you have enough?"
She had finally departed with smiles on her lips and rage in her heart. This actress, whom she had thought to awe with the majesty of her position in Herculaneum, was not awed at all. It was disconcerting; it was humiliating. She had condescended to tolerate and was tolerated in turn. Katherine adored Patty, and Patty had told her that she hated Mrs. Franklyn-Haldene.
One constantly hears what humiliating things men will do for money, whereas the truth is that they do them for the want of it. It is not the temptation which induces them, but the pinch.
Germany has always loved us. The Germans are a loving, unenvious people. They have been a little mislead but nice people do not insist upon that fact. But beware of beating Germany, beware of humiliating Germany; then indeed trouble will come. Germany will begin to dislike us. She will plan a revenge. Turning aside from her erstwhile innocent career, she may even think of hate.
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