If there is, as we admit, a public sentiment among you, men of honor, justice and humanity, is there not also another kind of public sentiment among the ruffian, the brutal and
debased? And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the
debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest?
He had gone away rejected and mortifieddisappointed in a very sanguine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement; and not only losing the right lady, but finding himself
debased to the level of a very wrong one.
The man a
debased specimen of one of the most primitive races of the earth, and of an ugliness which was simply devilish; the woman of high degree, beautiful, accomplished.
Yes, that's the d'Urberville nose and chin--a little
debased. Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire.
But now he had become so
debased that he could not even attempt to disguise from himself his yearning to know the secret thoughts of his servants.
Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them
debased and profaned in his mouth!
I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which
debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken.
Let us not insult the free and gallant citizens of America with the suspicion, that they would be less able to defend the rights of which they would be in actual possession, than the
debased subjects of arbitrary power would be to rescue theirs from the hands of their oppressors.
He had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and
debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years.
From all this it resulted that the false and selfish called her wise, the vulgar and
debased termed her charitable, the insolent and unjust dubbed her amiable, the conscientious and benevolent generally at first accepted as valid her claim to be considered one of themselves; but ere long the plating of pretension wore off, the real material appeared below, and they laid her aside as a deception.
With him came his horde of renegade Arabs, outlawed marauders, these, and equally degraded blacks, garnered from the more
debased and ignorant tribes of savage cannibals through whose countries the raider passed to and fro with perfect impunity.
"Whatever be thy object: whether revenge or the natural bent of a cruel and degraded mind, I know not; but if any be curst because of the Outlaw of Torn it will be thou--I had almost said, unnatural father; but I do not believe a single drop of thy
debased blood flows in the veins of him thou callest son."