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When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.
They were born to debate and disputation, abashed by no authority established over them, brash and as spirited as cats.
She strode off in the direction of the scream and, abashed but still reluctantly, I chased after her.
My eyes met hers briefly, and I looked away, abashed at being caught gazing.
The young lady looked abashed and stepped back consciously into the shadows.
The punky couple gave me a disdainful look, and I could only slink out abashed.
Alright, so most teenagers wouldn't admit to having such a geeky passion, but I wasn't abashed in the least.
But she grinned and looked abashed, and muttered something about her grandchildren.
They all filed in and sat down in the chairs, looking slightly abashed that they had been caught.
Katherine was slightly abashed at his forwardness and lingered outside of the house, not really wanting to go in.
I was too abashed, too embarrassed that I had actually asked something like that!
Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
He didn't seem the least abashed that water was running down his chin and onto his clothes and that the people who were passing by were giving him weird looks.
Moreover, they do not seem seriously abashed by the outcome of the war in Iraq.
She smiled at him and later looked away, abashed, at his unwavering stare.
Instead, he fled the country until, abashed by a public outcry and newspaper appeals to find him, he contacted his family and his father fetched him home.
Clearing his throat, the man sent her a truly abashed expression.
I did not know what to say, for I was abashed by the thought.
Others are less abashed about hiding what they see as flaws.
I felt relieved for the character, and slightly abashed for rushing to diagnose her with a mental illness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity.
Mrs. Gammit felt abashed at her ignorance, but gratified, at the same time, by the reproach of metropolitanism.
The ruler of Tripoli was abashed by this display of American energy and valor.
Then he regarded his abashed but excited hearers with a steady and prolonged stare.
For a moment it almost seemed as if her aunt were abashed at the passion of her protest.
He encountered the abashed and awestricken Kipps with the praises of his system and himself.
All dark thoughts, all basilar instincts shrank back abashed before that white light.
I think they were abashed at that, for they tried to laugh it off, and go on with their carouse.
They will be quite abashed with her conveniences, sir, and unable to enjoy them.
He stared about him sheepishly, bewildered and abashed, and unspeakably aggrieved.
As at the drawing of a curtain, Archie was aware of some illogicality in his position, and stood abashed.
I stole away abashed at my own intrusiveness, and feeling that I was rightfully punished by the misery that overwhelmed me.
Loveland tried to crush the man with a look, but he was not to be so easily abashed.
Isabella measured him with her eyes in undissembled scorn, and Charles was abashed and hung his head.
Camilla looked hastily away, and her whole set, abashed by so unseasoned an inquiry, cast down their eyes.
She was utterly abashed and humiliated, and in her own sight she was viler than the vilest.
His enemies were for the time discomfited, and even the hardy Wilton was abashed.
If abashed at heart, at least the world should be uninformed of that abashment.
It humbled and abashed the man, and made him still more irresolute and uncertain.
And the poor lady is abashed at the transparence of her evasion.
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