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Tag Name "Abashed" (6)

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
John Milton
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
Boris Pasternak
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Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension surely you must know it's her chair?
Leonore Fleischer
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One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
Alfred Doblin
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If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
Charles Spurgeon