For I would have thee know, Sancho, that wounds caused by any instruments which happen by chance to be in hand inflict no
indignity, and this is laid down in the law of the duel in express words: if, for instance, the cobbler strikes another with the last which he has in his hand, though it be in fact a piece of wood, it cannot be said for that reason that he whom he struck with it has been cudgelled.
And so fell George's last hope;--nothing before him but a life of toil and drudgery, rendered more bitter by every little smarting vexation and
indignity which tyrannical ingenuity could devise.
As I lounged upon the green bank, I lazily watched these parodies of humanity as they were tossed hither and thither with humourous
indignity by the breeze, remarking to myself on the quaint shamelessness with which we thus expose to the public view garments which at other times we are at such bashful pains to conceal.
Any
indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils.
Of late Bukawai had come to believe that they returned not so much from habit as from a fiendish patience which would submit to every
indignity and pain rather than forego the final vengeance, and Bukawai needed but little imagination to picture what that vengeance would be.
it was dreadful; but it was not only the pain, though that was terrible and lasted a long time; it was not only the
indignity of having my best ornament taken from me, though that was bad; but it was this, how could I ever brush the flies off my sides and my hind legs any more?
There is no
indignity so abhorrent to their feelings!"
He hated school, which he looked upon as an
indignity to be endured till he was old enough to go out into the world.
The lioness was now back in the path where she could see the author of the
indignity which had been placed upon her.
And that other side of life, of which she had never before thought and which had formerly seemed to her so far away and improbable, was now nearer and more akin and more comprehensible than this side of life, where everything was either emptiness and desolation or suffering and
indignity.
"Find some spot where I shall escape the
indignity of being patronized and bossed by the superior sex."
When the first torrent of tenderness was over, and when, in the calm and long interval between the fits, reason began to open the eyes of the lady, and she saw this alteration of behaviour in the captain, who at length answered all her arguments only with pish and pshaw, she was far from enduring the
indignity with a tame submission.