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exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
- I have studied how best to mortify in them the worldly sentiment of pride; and, only the other day, I had a pleasing proof of my success.Chapter 4 (58% in)
- "I was knocked down," was the blunt explanation, jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride; "but that did not make me ill," I added; while Mr. Lloyd helped himself to a pinch of snuff.Chapter 3 (59% in)
- "Madam," he pursued, "I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven; these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of — " Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three...Chapter 7 (60% in)
- The unhealthy nature of the site; the quantity and quality of the children's food; the brackish, fetid water used in its preparation; the pupils' wretched clothing and accommodations — all these things were discovered, and the discovery produced a result mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst, but beneficial to the institution.Chapter 10 (4% in)
- A sneer, however, whether covert or open, had now no longer that power over me it once possessed: as I sat between my cousins, I was surprised to find how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the semi-sarcastic attentions of the other — Eliza did not mortify, nor Georgiana ruffle me.Chapter 21 (42% in)
- I knew by her stony eye — opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears — that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.Chapter 21 (52% in)
- This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.Chapter 35 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "mortified" in Jane Eyre.
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