English vocabulary examples in context: abject
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 1.
Why then did a crowd of savages manifest such abject terror?
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 2.
He had been obliged to offer an abject apology to Mr. Alleyne for his impertinence but he knew what a hornet's nest the office would be for hi
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 3.
To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless wor
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 4.
Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 5.
You, you, you are the cause of my abject cowardice!
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 6.
that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime!
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 7.
At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in his soul.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 8.
The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 9.
Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the shadows.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 10.
I thought it disgusting, and even suspected that there was something base in my expression, and so every day when I turned up at the office I tried to behave as independently as possible, and to assume a lofty expression, so that I might not be suspected of being abject.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 11.
My harassed face struck me as revolting in the extreme, pale, angry, abject, with dishevelled hair.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 12.
On the contrary, he thought he had scaled her side as noiseless as a mouse; and he was amazed to see the pirates cowering from him, with Hook in their midst as abject as if he had heard the crocodile.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 13.
I cannot lead her to the altar feeling myself an abject wretch.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 14.
What I am doing here and my handing her over to you, perhaps her bitterest foe, is to my mind something so abject that I shall never get over it.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 15.
But one or two generations of vice are essential now; monstrous, abject vice by which a man is transformed into a loathsome, cruel, egoistic reptile.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 16.
Marie was reduced to the most abject terror for life.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 17.
Briggs' weeping snuffle, and her manner of using the handkerchief, were so completely rendered that Miss Crawley became quite cheerful, to the admiration of the doctors when they visited her, who usually found this worthy woman of the world, when the least sickness attacked her, under the most abject depression and terror of death.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 18.
In those regions, that were almost slums, what a modest existence, abject, if you please, but delightful, nourished by tranquillity and happiness, he would have consented to lead indefinitely.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 19.
But to suppose that she went to bad houses, that she abandoned herself to orgies with other women, that she led the crapulous existence of the most abject, the most contemptible of mortals--would be an insane wandering of the mind, for the realisation of which, thank heaven, the chrysanthemums that he could imagine, the daily cups of tea, the virtuous indignation left neither time nor place.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 20.
I wish all the world could know how abject I am become.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 21.
They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 22.
But the ring of the horses' hoofs roused the stupid population, and they all came trooping out--old men and old women, boys and girls, the blind, the crazy, and the crippled, all in ragged, soiled and scanty raiment, and all abject beggars by nature, instinct and education.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 23.
The doctor, therefore, left it on the 17th of March, 1854, and fled to the frontier, where he remained for thirty-three days in the most abject destitution.
Vocabulary in context: abject -- Example 24.
This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
