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It had taken some urging to get the woman to do this, but the persistent thought that Handy had turned angry and intended to humil - iate her did the job.

Here There Are Monsters 2010

It was such a blatantly deliberate act, that it was all Antonia could do to remain standing there, with her stinging eyes lowered, hiding the deep gouge of humil - iation that was tearing into the very fabric her pride was made of.

The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

KING: And do you give: that's an awful lot of credit to a person, to be able to do that in the face of what has become public humil -- your dad has been ...

CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2001 2001

He looked forward to paying back a thousand old humil-iations in blood.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

KING: And do you give: that's an awful lot of credit to a person, to be able to do that in the face of what has become public humil -- your dad has been ...

CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2001 2001

It had taken some urging to get the woman to do this, but the persistent thought that Handy had turned angry and intended to humil - iate her did the job.

Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

_+D+iscite a me {;} q {uia} mitis sum ⁊ humil {is} cord {e}. _ lerneð of me for þ̵ ich am milde ⁊ admod on herte. ⁊ þo tweien sander bodes ferden ⁊ cudden in þe bureh. þ̵ þe helende was þider ward.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

With a singular refinement of hospitable humil - ity Mr. Beeson spoke as if a sojourn in his warm cabin on such a night, as compared with walking four - teen miles up to the throat in snow with a cutting crust, would be an intolerable hardship.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

The most charitable supposition is, that he really mistook a mere selfish and painful sense of natural inferiority for true humil - ity.

Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812

"A whole lifetime of humil -- No, I can not!" she exclaimed, springing to her feet with the agility of a deer; and, wresting herself from Risler's grasp, through that open door which had tempted her from the beginning of this horrible scene, luring her out into the darkness of the night to the liberty obtainable by flight, she rushed from the house, braving the falling snow and the wind that stung her bare shoulders.

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