abash

• He has found that the power of insolence, and falsehood, and of vulgar, brutal wit, has its bounds; that there are those whom they cannot abash or cow; that the might in moral encounters is with the right I part with my opponent without malice, though without regret. —  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
• There was in her nothing to abash, and by her gracious aspect, her extreme affability, she knew how to put those with whom she talked at their ease, while wholly preserving her own rank. —  The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
• For Fred was a cheery spirit difficult to abash, and by the coming of spring knew all of the best-looking girl students in the place--knew them well enough, it appeared, to speak of them not merely by their first names but by abbreviations of these. —  Ramsey Milholland
• From this moment I abjure pessimism and cynicism in all their forms, put from my mind all considerations of the complexities of human life, unravel all by a triumphant optimism which no statistics can abash or criticism dishearten. —  Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance
• That could abash the little bird —  RevGalBlogPals

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