Example Sentences

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O thou frail soul! how hast thou quenched the heavenly essence within thee! … why wilt thou be thus self-disgraced and all inglorious?

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

It is much to be doubted whether one man of honour, and not utterly self-disgraced, kept his place near James the First. 

From A Child's History of England by Townsend, F. H.