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The fifth Abasement was cleaning feet with a tongue and the seventh was performed with a whip.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The fifth Abasement was cleaning feet with a tongue and the seventh was performed with a whip.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The fifth Abasement was cleaning feet with a tongue and the seventh was performed with a whip.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Abasement would have been a joy to her just then, was almost a necessity, and yet there was pride in her, the decent pride of a pure-natured woman who has never let herself be soiled.
The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Abasement, shame, defeat, fear, inaction, loneliness, yearning -- all these she had drunk in her cup of suffering, but in the dregs there remained one more drop of gall -- jealousy.
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S: Abasement is made to cleave to them wherever they are found, except under a covenant with Allah and a covenant with men, and they have become deserving of wrath from Allah, and humiliation is made to cleave to them; this is because they disbelieved in the communications of
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Abasement hath reached its lowest depth: Where are the emblems of Thy glory, O Glory of the worlds?
Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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Abasement, repentance, remorse, all combined as they were within him, fall far short of what he felt; he was degraded in his own eyes, deprived of self-respect, and stripped of every claim to the confidence of his brother, as he was to the well-known character for integrity which had been until then inseparable from the name.
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Abasement, and misery, and poverty, and sin, may, and all do, contribute to lower the tone of our moral existence; but the principle that has been planted by nature, can be eradicated by nature only.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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'Abasement and humiliation were brought down upon them, and they became deserving of Allah's wrath.'
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