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Nothing surprises or abashes him, he bows profoundly to Sir Harry and Lady Parkes when he encounters them, but is obviously “quite at home” in a Legation, and only allowed one of the orderlies to show him how to put on a

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

It weighs on him, it is a burden, a pressure, it sinks and abashes him.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

Eugene O'Neill of accident which keeps a homesick sailor tied to the sea in "The Long Voyage Home," and the mutual humiliation which abashes both victim and tormentors when, as conclusion to the panicky solemnities of "In the Zone," a parcel of Smitty's is found to be a bunch of old love-letters instead of the suspected bomb.

The Real Eugene O'Neil 1922

Wherefore Paul does both: here he abashes, saying,

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

For as he that only punishes a sin and does nothing to point out its most extreme lawlessness, produces no such great effect by his chastisement: so again, he who only abashes and fails to terrify by his mode of punishing, does not very keenly hit men of hardened minds.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

For having terrified him by what he had said before; first cutting him off and delivering him to Satan, and then reminding him of that day which is coming; he abashes him again by saying, "Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ?" thenceforth speaking as to children of noble birth.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

It is the new element, the higher something which abashes the unabashed, and makes John, who caused Henry's nose to bleed, tremble when little

The Uncalled A Novel Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

He does not seem aware that the fascinations of woman refine and chasten society; that virtuous attachment has in it an element of respect which abashes and purifies, and which shields the soul

Has Christianity Benefited Woman? 1885

Around them at the different tables there were groups of faces and figures fascinating in their strangeness, with that distinction which abashes our American level in the presence of European inequality.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

He was never of the fine world of literature, the world that sniffs and sneers, and abashes the simpler-hearted reader.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878