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He copied nature so faithfully as to reproduce his subjects in all their ignobleness.

From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Singleton, Esther

No unkindness, suspicion, or ignobleness of any sort, ever interrupted or mixed in the affection of these high friends.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

And of the ignoble intellect that does not seriously try, and has even reached the "ignobleness" of seriously trying the reverse, and of lying with its very tongue, what are we to expect?

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

The figure of Joachim is singularly beautiful in its pensiveness and slow motion; and the ignobleness of the herdsmen's figures is curiously marked in opposition to the dignity of their master.

From Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel by Ruskin, John

Tintoret cannot stand the ignobleness; it is unendurably repulsive and discomfiting to him.

From The Two Paths by Ruskin, John