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But a small party which crossed first at this bridge was stripped, beaten, and exposed to every kind of indignity.
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But I have long been pained to see us women insulted by this Euripides, this son of the green-stuff woman, who loads us with every kind of indignity.
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But I have long been pained to see us women insulted by this Euripides, this son of the green-stuff woman, [579] who loads us with every kind of indignity.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Their mission failing, they loaded him with every kind of indignity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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They observed some indications of African blood in him, and that, in their estimation, was sufficient to justify any and every kind of indignity.
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Never before had she been subjected to this kind of indignity.
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Never before had she been subjected to this kind of indignity.
The Pit Frank Norris 1886
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Page 38 was, the Federals regarded in the light of a heinous crime, and that, in all probability, I should be subjected to every kind of indignity.
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No one under the age of sixty should be subjected to that kind of indignity.
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What is more; in the most naturally brutal and morally uneducated part of the lower classes, the legal slavery of the woman, and something in the merely physical subjection to their will as an instrument, causes them to feel a sort of disrespect and contempt towards their own wife which they do not feel towards any other woman, or any other human being, with whom they come in contact; and which makes her seem to them an appropriate subject for any kind of indignity.
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill 1839
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