Example Sentences

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Blanche hid her face on Ethel's arm, when they were in the carriage, and almost cried with indignant "shamefastness."

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

“Not so, an please your Grace,” said Dennet, who fortunately was not in the least shy, and was still too young for a maiden’s shamefastness.

From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.

Doubtless her soul was brimming over with shamelessness, since she swerved so far from shamefastness, as without a blush to seek solace for her wrong in her daughter's infamy.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

To his grandfather he owed his own gentle spirit, to his father shamefastness and courage; he learnt of his mother to be religious and bountiful and single-minded.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome