self-abandoned

I entered the house of Goya the painter self-abandoned, deaf to light

Son of Goya Bill Yarrow 2011

No man is so self-abandoned to despair and degradation, that at some casual moment thoughts of amendment — some gleams of hope, however faint and transient, from the distant future — will not visit him.

The Evil Guest 2003

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Intimate Journals 1949

Then, as if he conceived himself to be unobserved behind this shelter, he let himself go; and I became the witness of an agony, a passion, a self-abandoned nakedness, to the utter shedding of all reticences and decencies, with nothing but those thin hands and that hair between me and it.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

So stripped of stability was the pillar, that he was now a mere feather of humanity, self-abandoned to the clasp of the storm of the modern Babylon.

Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

It is the question that concerns this world before all others, that occupies alike the patient workfolk who have yet their home unbroken, the strugglers foredoomed to loss of such scant needments as the summer gifted them withal, the hopeless and the self-abandoned and the lurking creatures of prey.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880

How I wished that he was self-abandoned and even weak, so that he should have need of me, of my caress, of my tears!

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Guy de Maupassant 1871

Webster conceives him as a self-abandoned atheist, who, maddened by poverty and tainted by vicious living, takes a fury to his heart, and, because the goodness of the world has been for ever lost to him, recklessly seeks the bad.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Webster conceives him as a self-abandoned atheist, who, maddened by poverty and tainted by vicious living, takes a fury to his heart, and, because the goodness of the world has been for ever lost to him, recklessly seeks the bad.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Can you see one of your own kind, with heart and head and hands like your own, so self-abandoned, so low, so hopeless, and feel no pity for him?

Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864