mortification

• He was purple with mortification, and leered up at Johnnie murderously Ha! —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• They longed to sink through the ground in their mortification--they, the serious students of yesterday, to be caught to-day playing like silly children in the open street. —  Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties
• Mrs. Grandon's mortification is a little assuaged, and in her secret heart she is thankful Marcia has done no worse. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• Much to my mortification, as well as loss, we were obliged to abandon the settlement, through the whim and caprice of the Lieutenant-Governor: additional expense to government, and additional loss to individuals, were incurred by removing to Van Diemen's Land, which can never be made to answer_. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• For in the first and second verses he lays down an excellent ground of all kind of mortification, viz. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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