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Every human soul to which I had caused a troubled thought, was now grown unspeakably dear to me, and I humbled myself before it, agonising to cast from between us the clinging offence.
Dorriforth, the grave, the pious, the anchorite Dorriforth, by their force is animated to all the ardour of the most impassioned lover; while the proud priest, the austere guardian, is humbled, if I but frown, into the veriest slave of love." She then asked: "Why did I not keep him longer in suspense? He could not have loved me more, I believe, but my power over him might have been greater still.
She felt curiously a mother-obligation toward it. She blamed herself for her husband's infidelity. She humbled herself and bowed her neck to the shame. She left the Church and went to the law. And then she found that the law had its own cruelties, its own fetters and walls and loopholes and hypocrisies. She found that it is not even possible to be a martyr and retain all one's dignity.
The next daybreak was the happiest Israel had known in a hundred years. Egypt, overthrown and humbled, was behind them; God was with them, and Canaan was just ahead perhaps only beyond the horizon. Few but would have laughed at the glory of Babylonia, Assyria and the great powers. For had it not been promised that out of Israel nations should be made, and kings should come?
'Go thou on to speak thy mind like Cassandra, cousin Dorothy, and let us men despise it at our peril. I am humbled before thee, said lord Charles, with the generosity of his family. 'Truly, child, said lady Glamorgan, 'the mantle of my husband hath fallen upon thee! The next day sir Trevor Williams and his men sat down before the castle with a small battery, and the siege was fairly begun.
The pirate captain's face wore a haggard, careworn, humbled look, that was very different from its usual bold, lion-like expression. No one can tell what a storm had passed through the strong man's breast while he lay alone on the floor of his cabin. The deep, deep sorrow the remorse for sin the bitterness of soul when he reflected that his present misery was chargeable only to himself.
My own family pride is humbled to the dust." "Nonsense!" laughed Patty, "the Van Reypen stock can hold its own!" And then they quickly got ready and started for home. Farnsworth took the wheel, and invited Patty to sit beside him. This left Van Reypen and Alice together in the tonneau, and neither objected to the arrangement.
Bower was nearing them rapidly. A constrained silence fell between them. To end it, Helen cried: "Well, are you feeling duly humbled, Mr. Bower?" He did not seem to understand her meaning. Apparently, he might have forgotten that Stampa still lived. Then he roused his wits with an effort. "Not humbled, but elated," he said. "Have I not led you to feats of derring-do?
Caesar and Ariovistus Negotiations Thus the threatening invasion of the Germans on the upper Rhine was obviated, and, at the same time, the party hostile to the Romans among the Celts was humbled.
He came as the "first-born Son" of God and the Elder Brother of man, to teach by example the self-sacrifice by which the great family of man is to be raised to equality of advantages as children of God. For this end, he "humbled himself" from the highest to the lowest place.
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