Sample Sentences forignoble (auto-selected)
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But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume.† (source)
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It would be an ignoble way for a soldier to depart this world, he thought, even a soldier of the secret variety.† (source)
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An equally gratifying (if ignoble) memory was Pippa's slight, shocked pause when I'd broken the news to her on the phone.† (source)
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"It was base," he said indignantly, "it was ignoble."† (source)
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There were then remaining perhaps half a dozen London houses which could be called "historic"; Marchmain House in St. James's was one of them, and the ball given for Julia, in spite of the ignoble costume of the time, was by all accounts a splendid spectacle.† (source)
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I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.† (source)
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Besides, in drawing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.† (source)
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If only once I could cease imagining the various motions, and instead of conjurings and dummy musings that leave one subtly affected, take hold of some moment and fully acquit myself to it, whether decently or ignobly.† (source)
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What a shocking, selfish idea it was—she was aware of its infinite ignobility even as the thought crossed her mind—but she could not help it, it was what she felt.† (source)
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Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.† (source)
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Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.† (source)
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That would be a disastrous and ignoble thing to do.† (source)
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It was Augustus Carmichael shuffling past, precisely now, at the very moment when it was painful to be reminded of the inadequacy of human relationships, that the most perfect was flawed, and could not bear the examination which, loving her husband, with her instinct for truth, she turned upon it; when it was painful to feel herself convicted of unworthiness, and impeded in her proper function by these lies, these exaggerations,—it was at this moment when she was fretted thus ignobly in the wake of her exaltation, that Mr. Carmichael shuffled past, in his yellow slippers, and some demon in her made it necessary for her to call out, as he passed, "Going indoors Mr. Carmichael?"† (source)
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Was this what they called an ignoble concern with the physical world?† (source)
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She had no wish to fall into that grotesqueness—in which she had seen women (and it was a warning) serenely, yet ignobly, flounder.† (source)
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And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble.† (source)
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