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  • Of crimes that blot the Age, the World with shame,

    Ildiko Csengei 2008

  • If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame,

    Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • I said, you know that's a shame, I said, it's a low down, ol 'dirty shame,

    Son House Lyrics 2009

  • Or cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shame,

    All I Ask Is The Chance.... Newmania 2007

  • But as I cannot at this time prevail upon myself personally to discover a secret which cannot well be unfolded without feelings of shame,

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Strange that men should sit in the stead of shame,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For, by proceeding in the same way as above, we can easily show that love is united to repentance, scorn, shame,

    The Ethics 2007

  • No shame on you who teach, to teach these easy matters; but for me to lack the knowledge of them, and most of all if highly useful to the learner, worse than shame,

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • O sir, said I, and I could have kissed him, but for shame,

    Pamela 2006

  • From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,

    The Life and Death of Richard the Second 2004

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