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It might do good, or at least it could do little harm, where aged and self-mortified men were the occupants of the office.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition—ascetic, self-mortified, and rapt in a strange exaltation, like a medieval monk.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

Such were then my thoughts, my proud thoughts, so far was I from being guilty of intentional meanness in forgiving, at Mr. B.'s interposition, the poor, low, creeping, abject self-mortified, and master-mortified, Mrs. Jewkes.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel