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  • Beyond the prelature's adherence to the arcane ritual of corporal mortification, their views on women were medieval at best.†   (source)
  • Maxon looked mortified.†   (source)
  • Tracks of unknown creatures in the mortified loess.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry, trying to grin as though the memory of their last meeting was funny as opposed to mortifying.†   (source)
  • To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches.†   (source)
  • Some of her fellow cheerleaders were amused, some were mortified.†   (source)
  • Yes, my friend, the possibilities for mortification were infinite.†   (source)
  • He's mortified.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth would be mortified by the thought of sharing a room with a man before she was married, Hilly would tell me I was stupid to even consider it.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away from my flesh, separated by a millimeter of mortified space.†   (source)
  • I was too mortified to spend that weekend at my grandmother's— with Hester as Owen's date—and so I returned to Dan's dorm with the other boys who marched to the school's rules.†   (source)
  • I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him.†   (source)
  • Her dad's words stung in her ears: I am so mortified you're my daughter.†   (source)
  • Instantly she was horrified at herself, and in mortified confusion kept her eyes on the wooden trencher before her.†   (source)
  • He gets out of bed, convinced that it's his parents calling to wish him a happy birthday, mortified that it will wake Gerald and Lydia from sleep.†   (source)
  • Septa Mordane would be mortified, and Sansa would never speak to her again from the shame.†   (source)
  • "Mortifying," he says.†   (source)
  • Cinder glared at the doctor, half-mortified, but the start of a smile grew on Kai's face.†   (source)
  • Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification.†   (source)
  • But when he looked down at the book to read the English translation, he stumbled over the word herb, pronouncing the h. Uncle Sam snorted and Aaron stopped, mortified.†   (source)
  • I'd be mortified in front of a man like that.†   (source)
  • If I wasn't so stubborn, I might even admit that my judgmental behavior this week was completely mortifying and he had every right in the world to be angry with me for being so ignorant.†   (source)
  • Piper knew most kids would find a Q&A like this with their parents totally mortifying.†   (source)
  • Mortified, I began to stammer—swearing was seriously against the rules at the Barbours' house—but Mr. Barbour didn't seem greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • When I do, it's almost too mortifying to admit.†   (source)
  • I craved my father's answer, but to my utter mortification, Noah Hutchins had already heard too much.†   (source)
  • They'd have been mortified!†   (source)
  • If Ruth obeyed, she was mortified.†   (source)
  • Jacob stared down, his expression mortified.†   (source)
  • No more dealing with newsboys who did not know their place; no more walking in the yellow stew that bubbled between pavers; no more having to breathe the awful perfume of mortified horses left in the middle of the street.†   (source)
  • So what had so mortified her during Gus's presentation?†   (source)
  • Jim was mortified enough to complain about it at the supper table.†   (source)
  • -they were naked, they were light and free-it was all lightness, bright and fast and buoyant, light as light, a helium buzz in the brain, a giddy bubbling in the lungs as they were taken up over the clouds and the war, beyond duty, beyond gravity and mortification and global entanglements-Sin loi! they yelled.†   (source)
  • Hiro is mortified by this idea.†   (source)
  • My parents would have been mortified if I wore a bathing suit in public.†   (source)
  • Kuttappen mortified, the twins preoccupied with boat thoughts.†   (source)
  • So I stood there, mortified and embarrassed.†   (source)
  • She'd been mortified after their kiss, and had spent the next five minutes stammering an apology while he grinned.†   (source)
  • She realizes something, bites her lip and looks mortified I'd say something if I could, but there's no place to start.†   (source)
  • —and part was mortified.†   (source)
  • FOR A SECOND Nadia was seized by a wild fury but then as she looked at Saeed he appeared almost lethally mortified and a coil loosened in her and she smiled a little and she held him tight, to torture him and to test him, and she said, surprising herself, "It's okay.†   (source)
  • Usually it mortified him to be called her baby, but for some reason, just then, it made him feel sort of gooey and good.†   (source)
  • The nuns closed themselves up in their convent for their yearly mortification in honor of the crucifixion of their bridegroom and Lord, Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • The thought of her mortification kept me company for a long time, but the sounds of music and laughter and Cisco Kid screams broke into my pleasant revengeful reveries.†   (source)
  • If one of them had asked, of course, I would have been mortified.†   (source)
  • I was mortified picking it up because it fell between the seat and the window, and I was sure I'd look like an enormous cow bending over to get it.†   (source)
  • Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.†   (source)
  • He was mortified by thoughts of the men she had slept with before their marriage; he was convinced, moreover, that she remained promiscuous-that every time he went to sea, or even left her alone for the day, she betrayed him with a multitude of lovers, whose existence he unendingly demanded that she admit.†   (source)
  • Her client ducked her head, mortified.†   (source)
  • But as my mortification wore off (and I became more adept at walking with boots) I also got to know her, and she was to become my greatest friend at Clarkebury.†   (source)
  • I set my spoon down, mortified.†   (source)
  • That shot in his hip was as wasted as if she'd squirted it in a dead man-no heart to pump it, no vein to carry it up to his head, no brain up there for it to mortify with its poison.†   (source)
  • She disappeared, mortified but also faintly thrilled.†   (source)
  • For a second I didn't think anyone was going to say anything, and I wanted to die of new-kid mortification.†   (source)
  • Two weeks earlier, this would have mortified me: I could just see myself bursting into flames from the shame.†   (source)
  • Mandy stared at her plate in mortified silence.†   (source)
  • It dawned on her then that her dad had asked the police to bring her home, and there was an instant when she was frozen in mortification.†   (source)
  • If she had known that Aureliano Segundo was going to take things the way he did, with the fine pleasure of a grandfather, she would not have taken so many turns or got so mixed up, but would have freed herself from mortification the year before Amaranta Ursula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain.†   (source)
  • I was trying as hard as I could, and in the back of my mind was a growing sense of mortification.†   (source)
  • Deets didn't say a word or even look at Newt accusingly, but Newt was still mortified.†   (source)
  • They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads.†   (source)
  • Mortified that her capital was gone, Neth began to discuss with a few girlfriends the idea of seeking jobs in a city.†   (source)
  • A boarding school tradition in which the family of the schoolgirl is allowed a visit, resulting in the mortification of all and the enjoyment of none.†   (source)
  • He helped Christa find work at manual labor, taught her the routes of the Twin Cities' public buses, so she could move about freely, and, to their mother's mortification, discussed the particulars of birth control when he learned she was dating.†   (source)
  • He was mortified; he had gum stuck on his fingers and in his hair, and he could hear his classmates trying to suppress their laughter.†   (source)
  • And, after he pulled her from the water and bandaged the wound, carrying her to his sister's bed, averting his eyes as he dressed her in his sister's gown; Cassie would have been mortified when she realized he'd seen her unclothed.†   (source)
  • ] If he doesn't love me, I'm mortified for giving myself in the ways I just did.†   (source)
  • I am mortified by the attention.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf glared at Clevinger with tight lips, mortified by the poor impression Clevinger was making.†   (source)
  • He's frozen, mortified.†   (source)
  • Casey burst into a fit of laughter as I buried my face in my hands, completely mortified.†   (source)
  • She was mortified.†   (source)
  • I stare at him in silence, feeling mortification creep over me.†   (source)
  • The probationer was mortified at the sound of a baby that had come alive right behind her back, confounding her most basic clinical assumptions.†   (source)
  • I'm so mortified.†   (source)
  • Nothing visible anyway, but just under the surface Jake was mortified at the thought of reacquiring a senior partner who owned the building and was impossible to work with, or under.†   (source)
  • To have it declared publicly that his limp—his "halting" — would be a "blemish" on the company was, as he wrote, a "mortification" beyond any he had known.†   (source)
  • I know he drove a Nash Rambler with a naked lady hood ornament, that my aunt Gracie Juanita was so mortified that she painted a bathing suit over the chromed body.†   (source)
  • I was mortified!†   (source)
  • And surely the poor man looked mortified the next day, afraid that he had irrevocably offended me.†   (source)
  • It prevents mortification of the flesh.†   (source)
  • For a long time Frank was mortified to have to rely on his son for such private matters, but eventually the shared challenge of bathing, grooming, and toilet brought them closer, deepened their feelings for each other.†   (source)
  • I was mortified — not only because I was attacking my best friend, but because I'd sounded like a jealous idiot.†   (source)
  • He flung his arm over his face, mortified to be in such a state in front of anyone, much less a stranger.†   (source)
  • I think about bananas, oranges, and strawberries, mortified that he might actually sense what I am thinking.†   (source)
  • If we offend you now we have mortified the gods.†   (source)
  • But mostly she was too mortified to face the congregation.†   (source)
  • He was mortified to find himself the center of attention, when a hundred eyes turned on him asthe chandelier swung like a pendulum and tinkled prettily, with a sound like glass dominoes falling.†   (source)
  • I was mortified.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickey looked mortified and excused herself to go look for something in the storeroom, and Mr. Hickey politely held open the door for me, not saying anything more, and I resolved then not to disturb them again until they found it necessary to contact me directly, when I should be happy to contribute in any way.†   (source)
  • Though he was proud, at the same time, he was mortified.†   (source)
  • And the occasional mortification of having to appear in front of a guy I had a crush on in a bathing suit at the lake or whatever.†   (source)
  • "Great God," he moans, mortified by such a sad sight.†   (source)
  • It's mortifying, for both of us.†   (source)
  • I was ready to bolt, ready to run out of that room as soon as she broke my heart, so I wouldn't have to face the mortification.†   (source)
  • This was rather mortifying to George, who had paid a stiff price for Fey and her pedigree.†   (source)
  • And I watched while the crazy Polack took a gulp of whiskey straight from the bottle and with her other hand—the one which had wrought upon me such mixed mortification and pleasure—gently massaged into the skin of her face my hapless exudate.†   (source)
  • It was mortifying to let that kind of a husband see you had that kind of a brother.†   (source)
  • She was choking with mortification.†   (source)
  • Helpless and mortified, Chooka suddenly shrieked: "Get out of here, you goddam cop!†   (source)
  • And all the time she was filled with shame and mortification because he was seeing her cry.†   (source)
  • "Mollywobbles," whispered a mortified Mrs. Weasley into the crack at the edge of the door.†   (source)
  • Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied.†   (source)
  • I knew Mychal well enough not to actually die of mortification, but only just.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is a mortification of the flesh, like a hair shirt.†   (source)
  • — proud and very domineering, the sort of witch who would have been mortified to produce a Squib-†   (source)
  • Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally.†   (source)
  • She'd be mortified and ashamed of me and…I look down at the envelope.†   (source)
  • Celeste hung her head, absolutely mortified.†   (source)
  • Reynie went from being surprised to being mortified.†   (source)
  • And standing next to Mrs. McClure looking completely mortified was Jon Trulock.†   (source)
  • Mortified, she glanced at their intertwined fingers and the black smudges on the white silk gloves.†   (source)
  • Jim overheard me talking about Peter's fiancée, and it's simply too mortifying, I was saying …."†   (source)
  • I will do all in my power, my lord, but the wound has mortified.†   (source)
  • "Honestly," her father said, "I am so mortified you're my daughter right now.†   (source)
  • It used to mortify Ruth when she shouted for her up and down the block.†   (source)
  • There was a mystic joy in the idea, a saintly mortification.†   (source)
  • Even though I was so mortified I wanted to disappear, I wanted to hear too.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to seeing stiff, mortified contestants, the audience responded with uncertain titters.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, it's OK if you don't,' she said, looking mortified.†   (source)
  • The scientist in her was mortified by her own naïveté.†   (source)
  • If she had expected him to be mortified, to spit it out and break down and apologize, she was wrong.†   (source)
  • "But she looked mortified, and she was so apologetic," he countered.†   (source)
  • Ron stopped craning his neck to catch a glimpse of Neville's parents and looked mortified.†   (source)
  • If he knew the truth …. how mortified would he be if anyone found out?†   (source)
  • Juli always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.†   (source)
  • She caught her tongue, even now unwilling to share the mortifying secret about her stepdaughter.†   (source)
  • I smiled at Mallory, who was still standing there looking mortified.†   (source)
  • I want to look up, to read the expression on his face, but I'm too mortified.†   (source)
  • When I exit, hair dripping, out the double doors, I'm mortified to find the bus has already gone.†   (source)
  • Chaperone says no." Amir looked mortified.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," I said, feeling mortified that I'd indirectly insulted his memory.†   (source)
  • Howard was mortified over the disaster he had created.†   (source)
  • The other students giggled, but Julie looked mortified and merely stared at the ground.†   (source)
  • He admired the man's determination, but it was a mortifying spectacle.†   (source)
  • Max shook his head at the image's mortifying scale.†   (source)
  • Mortified, she dumped the feathers in their bag, secured it.†   (source)
  • The elves froze with mortified expressions while they waited for Saphira's reaction.†   (source)
  • "That," she said, "is a truly mortifying idea.†   (source)
  • I drew in a deep, shuddering breath, totally mortified that a stranger was seeing me like this.†   (source)
  • Godly glamour moms who invited your friends over for tea and guy talk—that was just mortifying.†   (source)
  • It baas loudly in what I believe to be utter mortification.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was having a good time, but I was mortified.†   (source)
  • You would be mortified, too, if you realized that you were handcuffed by your own nature.†   (source)
  • I knew it was coming, but I was mortified.†   (source)
  • Mortified, I crumpled at my father's feet and, in a tiny voice, begged his pardon.†   (source)
  • A beat of mortified silence as the smee swelled up with indignation.†   (source)
  • Omar looked mortified throughout and meticulously cleaned his glasses.†   (source)
  • Prusias apparently heard this, for he abruptly turned and addressed the mortified speaker.†   (source)
  • Nately shook his head, his cheeks darkening with shy and regretful mortification.†   (source)
  • It wasn't pretty—his father would have been mortified—but Steve thought it would do.†   (source)
  • Now my mortification grew still further.†   (source)
  • He could see from Grace's mortified face that it was time to leave.†   (source)
  • I smile a little queasily back at him, still feeling mortified.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions's becoming blush deepened to the tint of angry mortification.†   (source)
  • It seems a simple request, and yet, I'm far too mortified by it all to utter a sound.†   (source)
  • For a few moments I can't move for mortification.†   (source)
  • This is mortifying but at least she does it indoors, where no one can see her.†   (source)
  • His eyes make me forget that I am mortified, that I wanted to never speak again.†   (source)
  • The word mortified sounded like you'd gone to granite, like you couldn't move to save your soul.†   (source)
  • It flops hopelessly under her manipulations while I watch, mortified.†   (source)
  • He sat there glowing in the dark, red hot, mortified, frustrated, and ashamed.†   (source)
  • "The flesh mortifies and the wounds ooze pus," Pycelle told the council.†   (source)
  • And then it would mortify my pride if I should be thought to disgrace you.†   (source)
  • If they mortify my vanity, they give me comfort.†   (source)
  • I was too surprised and mortified by the rector's sudden appearance to make any civil reply to him.†   (source)
  • She realized, mortified, that she was crying.†   (source)
  • Jared saw me, saw my mortified expression, and stopped.†   (source)
  • The faun stepped hesitantly forward, gazing with a mortified expression at Grendel's wound.†   (source)
  • I colored then, in mortification and anger both.†   (source)
  • She was so socially above Peter Houghton that an email like this wasn't mortifying, but hilarious.†   (source)
  • When I did hear myself, heard the ragged, tearing gasps of agony, I was mortified.†   (source)
  • Jamie ducked under Jeb's hand, his face scarlet with mortification.†   (source)
  • He'd have to remind her, at breakfast; then she'd snap out of her trance and buy him some mortifying present — pyjamas for little kids with kangaroos or bears on them, a disk nobody under forty would ever listen to, underwear ornamented with whales — and tape it up in tissue paper and dump it on him at the dinner table, smiling her increasingly weird smile, as if someone had yelled Smile! and goosed her with a fork.†   (source)
  • Langdon stared, mortified.†   (source)
  • I sat there, completely mortified.†   (source)
  • The first morning he'd slept over he'd been mortified to face them, showering beforehand, putting on his wrinkled shirt and trousers from the day before, but they'd merely smiled, still in their bathrobes, and offered him warm sticky buns from their favorite neighborhood bakery and sections of the paper.†   (source)
  • Did you think you could tell me that you're mortified I'd expose my scars and then I'd fall into your arms and we'd make out?"†   (source)
  • I was mortified.†   (source)
  • When we finally got the table stopped and Marley reeled in, just feet from the poodle and her mortified owner, I turned back to check on the boys, and that's when I got my first good look at the faces of my fellow alfresco diners.†   (source)
  • But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.†   (source)
  • Like many members of Opus Dei, these businessmen were at the "supernumerary" stage and practiced no corporal mortification at all.†   (source)
  • The very idea of it mortified him.†   (source)
  • She regrets her mortifying lack of confidence, the extra ten pounds she carried on her frame during puberty.†   (source)
  • She still didn't understand why they'd had to downgrade just because her father had made the unusual and mortifying decision to sever his marriage contract and move out.†   (source)
  • Mom was mortified.†   (source)
  • His Holiness has become uneasy with your aggressive recruiting policies and your practices of corporal mortification.†   (source)
  • He stiffens, and I'm mortified.†   (source)
  • Every clan in the Mountains of the Moon feared the Burned Men, who mortified their flesh with fire to prove their courage and (the others said) roasted babies at their feasts.†   (source)
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