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  • All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • Then he also tumbled his long legs into the tonneau, having that sense of degradedly diving into heaven which so many have known in so many human houses when they consented to stop to tea or were allowed to stop to supper.

    The Ball and the Cross 1905

  • His afflicted historian is compelled to fling his net among prosaic similitudes for an illustration of one thus degradedly in its grip.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • His afflicted historian is compelled to fling his net among prosaic similitudes for an illustration of one thus degradedly in its grip.

    Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • His afflicted historian is compelled to fling his net among prosaic similitudes for an illustration of one thus degradedly in its grip.

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

  • All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Well third quarter Engine / Mobile sales were slower than our historical growth averages, it was an improvement over the prior two quarters of the year and we are degradedly optimistic this trend will continue.

    China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008

  • A vast mass of mankind are degradedly thrown into the background of the human picture, to bring forward with greater glare the puppet show of State and aristocracy. "

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

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