asham'd

The poem continues: "She it apply'd where I'm asham'd to tell,/ And acted what I could have done as well."

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You will see what I say to Mr L as to Nats affair — I want to know how you proceed with the Shoe trade, but I am asham'd to ask because I have no help for you just now — perhaps we may find out in time who sent the copy from Thetford I suspect Miss Pooly, or the Bidwells —

Letter 81 2009

I am rather asham'd, not of my progress in the Journal*, but of my promise, for I have not compleated my task.!

Letter 230 2009

How about "To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd"?

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Your Softness (said she) makes me almost asham'd to own you for my Son; rouze up your Resolution, and act as becomes your Sex and Quality, and not languish under the Effects of I know not what Fears and Fancies of a rigorous Beauty.

Exilius 2008

In this State, dear Cousin, are my Affairs at present, being under great Difficulties what to do; for I am asham'd to discover to my Uncle his being here in Disguise, and unwilling to let him remain so any longer, after such Treatment.

Exilius 2008

Turpius, and the sole lawful Heiress of all his great Riches: But the Irregularity of his Life makes me almost asham'd to own him for my

Exilius 2008

To reveal my Sex I was asham'd, nor indeed knew I to whom; for to this vertuous Maid it was in vain, she not being able to help me; to the High − Priest it was dangerous, fearing to be immur'd for having prophan'd that holy Place, by living so long there in Disguise; and to live there longer, was but to augment my

Exilius 2008

Again, one would have to be very literal-minded indeed not to hear the delicious irony that is Kate's undersong, centered on the great line "I am asham'd that women are so simple."

"[O]ddly tender" M-mv 2007

Again, one would have to be very literal-minded indeed not to hear the delicious irony that is Kate's undersong, centered on the great line "I am asham'd that women are so simple."

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