Example Sentences

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That is, abasing our eyes in reverence to so great a man, but without closing them.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

This is abasing our intelligence, and making it serve as a means to satisfy our wants, whilst it belongs to an order far superior to these very wants.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul