mortifications

He wryly referred to Trist as “a flank battery planted against me,” and added: “Considering the many cruel disappointments and mortifications I have been made to feel … or the total want of support and sympathy, on the part of the War Department, which I have so long experienced, I beg to be recalled from this army.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

He wryly referred to Trist as “a flank battery planted against me,” and added: “Considering the many cruel disappointments and mortifications I have been made to feel … or the total want of support and sympathy, on the part of the War Department, which I have so long experienced, I beg to be recalled from this army.”

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

The prayers the women say, their conversations with Christ, their bodily mortifications, and their visions (the last two often done in secret but eventually revealed to the community) fill the pages of the Sister-Books.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

At St. Cuthbert ' s in Edinburgh, on deciding to erect a board of names, the Kirk Session expressed the hope that the said mortifications, being conspicuously inscribed in gold characters may be a motive to others to follow the example of the mortifiers.

Present and Correct Lennox Morrison 2010

What began as another misconceived newspaper prank rapidly grew into a life-threatening feud and one of the most mortifying events in a life that was not without its share of public and private mortifications—most of them self-inflicted.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

At the same time, it also contains the greatest number of examples of extreme religious discipline in the form of hairshirts, flagellation, and other types of bodily mortifications.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

What began as another misconceived newspaper prank rapidly grew into a life-threatening feud and one of the most mortifying events in a life that was not without its share of public and private mortifications—most of them self-inflicted.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

These midrashim, which present the request for forgiveness by David, who undertakes tribulations and mortifications, and is punished in diverse ways, clearly delineate the approach that David did, in fact, sin, but was eventually absolved.

Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Of all the inconveniences and mortifications heaped upon us since the untaming of the shrews, I would argue that nothing so besets a man as the monthly indignities of PMT.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Penthouse column. 2009

I could only speak for myself so I mentioned mortifications whenever possible.

Archive 2009-06-21 Esther 2009