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`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
Otherwise, she would be baited into a tantrum -- teased and provoked until she lost control of herself, and thus lost still another battle in the maddening struggle of Tom Lord Vs. Joyce Lakewood.
It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.
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And, therefore, being in disgrace, they would not be cremated and their ashes flung to the winds in public ceremony.
Even this authority would admit that it is better to pronounce the Kiddush over new wine than to desecrate the Name and to disgrace the Jewish people, and we well know the damage caused the Jewish people by the trafficking in sacramental wine.
That such things should be done once is a damning disgrace to the portion of our race which did them ; that the door should be left open to their ever so barely possible repetition would spread that shame over the world!
Had the action failed, he would have been subject to court-martial for disobeying orders in the face of the enemy, with subsequent loss of command and disgrace.
Augustus seems to have had Tiberius adopt Germanicus as heir because of the latter's marriage to his granddaughter Agrippina ( the last of Augustus ' living grandchildren not in disgrace ) ensured that his own descendents ( through a female line ) would inherit one day-but not because of any secret blood relationship.
' Then Útgarda-Loki answered, looking about him on the benches, and spake: ' I see no such man here within, who would not hold it a disgrace to wrestle with thee ;' and yet he said: ' Let us see first ; let the old woman my nurse be called hither, Elli, and let Thor wrestle with her if he will.
Since Gumlog is " a shame and a disgrace ," it is not an acceptable word for proper society, so it is understandable why Gumlog would never show up in a chamber of commerce brochure.
The marquise had many enemies among the royal courtiers who felt it a disgrace that the king would thus compromise himself with a commoner.
My feeling that Bucknall and Erskine would have to go started with that failure ... the whole handling of that battle was a disgrace.
Because of the Japanese military's policy to never surrender, Japanese soldiers never received any training about how to act as POWs: upon returning to Japanese ranks, many would face disgrace, punishment, and starvation.
Hazlitt was unaware that the sale had been salted with many lots inserted by Phillips the auctioneer, that had never passed Beckford's muster: " I would not disgrace my house by Chinese furniture ," he remarked later in life.
He now stood in favour with the King and Cardinal Wolsey, though he would not suffer disgrace at the fall of the latter.
1968's For the Sake of the Song features " harpsichords, flutes, martial drum beats, and a whole host of backup singers that would make the most overproduced Southern Gospel album hang its head in disgrace.
He replied that Gage's troops would " disgrace even barbarians ," and he accused Gage of " a most unprovoked attack upon the lives and the property of his Majesty's subjects.
Once an officer had been promoted to post-captain, his further promotion was strictly by seniority ; if he could avoid death or disgrace, he would eventually become an admiral ( even if only a yellow admiral ).
Lurie is working on Lord Byron at the time of his disgrace, and " the irony is that he comes to grief from an escapade that Byron would have thought distinctly timid.
It can also be understood that British Social-Democrats — be it said to their credit — would not tolerate this disgrace and shame and heatedly opposed it.
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