Sentence Examples

1. I reflected what a mortification it must prove to me to appear as inconsiderable in this nation as one single Lilliputian would be among us.
2. By conversing with the Houyhnhnms and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gestures, which is now grown into a habit and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, that I trot like a horse, which, however, I take for a great compliment neither shall I disown, that in speaking I am apt to fall into the voice and manner of the Houyhnhnms, and hear myself ridiculed on that account without the least mortification.
3. My mortification was complete when I heard his low chuckle.
4. Weston said no more and Emma could imagine with what surprize and mortification she must be returning to her seat.
5. The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look then turning to the horse, I heard the word yahoo often repeated betwixt them the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it were the first I had learned to pronounce but I was soon better informed, to my everlasting mortification for the horse beckoning to me with his head, and repeating the hhuun, hhuun, as he did upon the road, which I understood was to attend him, led me out into a kind of court, where was another building at some distance from the house.
6. Sancho glanced at him and saw him with his head bent down upon his breast in manifest mortification and Don Quixote glanced at Sancho and saw him with his cheeks puffed out and his mouth full of laughter, and evidently ready to explode with it, and in spite of his vexation he could not help laughing at the sight of him and when Sancho saw his master begin he let go so heartily that he had to hold his sides with both hands to keep himself from bursting with laughter.
7. Suckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn.
8. They were combined only of anger against herself, mortification, and deep concern.
9. With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.
10. I assured his honor that law was a science in which I was little conversant, having only such knowledge of it as I had obtained by employing advocates, in vain, upon some injustices that had been done me, and by conversing with others who by the same method had first lost their substance and then left their country under the mortification of such disappointments.