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  • But it is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our own personal share of pain.†  (source)
  • Also I warn you once more that you had better avoid such hints and ignoble suppositions; otherwise you will assuredly have to reckon with me.†  (source)
  • Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look;†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • An ignoble end for a bodyguard of his calibre.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Unable to attract a national distributor, the Shooting Gallery had no choice but to relegate Marley's movie debut to that most ignoble of celluloid fates.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The Internet has proven particularly fruitful for situations in which a face-to-face encounter with an expert might actually exacerbate the problem of asymmetrical information—situations in which an expert uses his informational advantage to make us feel stupid or rushed or cheap or ignoble.†  (source)
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