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His pride, if we must call it so, undebased by the least tincture of mere vanity, was intertwined with a most exquisite charity, and was not inconsistent with true humility.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

Oh! thine be the gladness and mine be the guilt, Forgive me adored one—forsake if thou wilt, But the heart which I bear shall expire undebased, And man shall not break it—whatever thou mayest.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number by Various

Therefore, with unencumbered soul I go Before the footstool of my Maker, where I hope to stand as undebased as now!

From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by Aytoun, W. E. (William Edmondstoune)

It was preparing the nation for a future life of great purposes, by purifying it in the crucible of affliction, and preserving the people pure and undebased.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

For we are all undebased by slavery; and there is no land behind us, nor does even the sea afford a refuge, whilst the Roman fleet hovers around.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius