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Updated: June 19, 2025
This small element had for centuries now been swelled by captives taken in war, and by accessions through misery, poverty, and debt, which drove men to sell themselves and families and wear the collar of servitude. In addition to this, political and social changes had been long modifying the structure of society in a way tending to degrade the general condition.
In its turn, the tempering of the formal impulsion must not result from moral impotence, from a relaxation of thought and will, which would degrade humanity.
He respects me, wretched as I am; I read it in his eyes. You are looking for a way to degrade me in my own feelings, yet to deceive me. Can you be a gentleman?" She was serene as if she had said nothing, though she rose up, and stood at one side of the fireplace, opposite him; between them was a print of General Jackson riding over the British.
It is said that there must be some one authority in a household and that this should be the man; woman will neglect the home if she is left free to enter politics or a profession; politics will degrade her; when independent and self-asserting she will lose her influence over man; and most women do not want to vote or to enter politics.
In a spot whose beauty might well be expected to have only a softening influence, whose memories might at least be found exalting, a handful of disreputable men gathered together to degrade the place, and, as far as that was possible, themselves, with the beastly pleasures and beastly humors of the ingrained blackguard.
She had seen a man whom she had hitherto liked, and whom she had unconsciously respected for a certain dignity he seemed to have, degrade himself and for money's sake, as she rightly judged to the playing of a pitiful comedy.
"I have such confidence in you," said Lady Lansmere, "that if you once know the girl, your advice will be sure to have weight with her. You will show her how wicked it would be to let Harley break our hearts and degrade his station." "I have such confidence in you," said young Harley, "that if you once know my Nora, you will no longer side with my mother.
Even minor mineral fetal deficiencies degrade the bone structure: the fetus knows it needs nutritional reserves more than it needs to have a full-sized jaw bone or a wide pelvic girdle, and when deprived of maximum fetal nourishment, these non-vital bones become somewhat smaller. Permanently.
It is very degrading to find one's self looked down upon as a sort of animal without reason or feelings; and if you degrade a man, you deprive him of any incentive to make himself useful, except the brute one you may feel bound to apply yourself. True, they are lazy; but what inducement have they to work?
But her voice died in the rattle and bustle of the diligence outside, and she was left trembling from head to foot, under a conflict of emotions that seemed now to exalt, now to degrade her. Half an hour after Delafield's departure there appeared on the terrace of the hotel a tottering, emaciated form Aileen Moffatt, in a black dress and hat, clinging to her mother's arm.
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