How To Use Mortified In A Sentence
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Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
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Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Mrs. Tarbell, deeply mortified, resumed her occupation, and completed the _precipe_ by writing the words, "Tarbell, pro plff.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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I am mortified at having to wait in line but TD is a lagger.
Get Laid or Die Trying
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If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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I would be mortified cancelling someone who had flown 600 miles to see me, but important men don't sport the blush of shame.
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I was mortified and apologised profusely to Button's adviser.
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Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Mortified, yet recognisant of the possible truth in the Baronesss words, Maria decides she must leave immediately.
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Happily I got a chance to work out the new, bigger disher (don't ask me what size I got, I already forget I am mortified to admit) on those Double Chocolate Chip Cookies I posted about this past Tuesday.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Poor Kate was so chop-fallen, she looked like a convicted criminal, who would gladly have hid herself, to conceal her mortified pride and deep chagrin.
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Supremes in the name of love stop more hurt than anything more or less an amoretto more mortifiedby loneliness than by mortgage benefits
Mores
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I felt mortified by my own klutziness, embarrassed by how uncoordinated I was and how many years older I was than the young things who could run for hours on the treadmills—and talk on their cell phones at the same time.
CSS: Shaping the New You
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On the fame day, or the day following, fuch parts of the fauces as at firft feemed to be of a deeper colour than the reft, turned white, afii-coloured, or black: this was not occafioned by any cruft or matter fuper - induced upon the parts, but proceeded from a gangrenous colliquation of them, the fub* ftance itfelf being mortified.
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
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As a teenager, making any mistake socially would have mortified me.
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Yea, and whereas to the carrying on of that course of obedience, it is necessary that the contrary principle unto it, which we mentioned before, be daily subdued, brought under, crucified, and mortified; there are no doctrines whatsoever that are of such and so direct and eminent a serviceableness to that end and purpose as those which inwrap such discoveries of God and his goodwill in
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The mother embodies the proper bourgeoise, mortified that she wet her skirt with fear, protective of her family, opposed to entering a stranger's property, but no one listens to her.
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I was mortified to find that I didn't remember how to bait a hook.
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Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity.
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But where the minds of men, through their native darkness, are disenabled to discern the glory of spiritual things, and, through their carnal, unmortified affection, do cleave unto, and have the highest esteem of, worldly grandeur, it is no wonder if they suppose the beauty and glory of the church to consist in them.
The Sermons of John Owen
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When they told us we couldn't vote I was absolutely mortified.
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Asceticism and self-flagellation mortified the flesh.
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But from the darkness of the minds of men and their unmortified affections (as the best know but in part, nor are they perfectly sanctified) it is that they are apt to take offence one at another, and thereon to judge and censure each other temerariously; and, which is worst of all, every one to make his own understanding and persuasion thereon the rule of truth and worship unto others.
A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
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mortified" - as emotional memorial services to the dead were held in Whitehaven and
News round-up
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And while Google said it was "mortified" by its discovery, apologized again, and announced some measures to beef up privacy awareness within its ranks, the admission could expose the company to greater global scrutiny, fines and potential lawsuits, experts said.
Google 'mortified' that Street View cars scarfed up e-mail, passwords; privacy criticism intensifies
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Grandma once told me I mortified my mother by saying, ‘I always love coming to Grandma's because it's so clean.’
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He felt mortified for his mistake.
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If she knew I'd heard her crying she might well have been mortified.
RESCUING ROSE
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Nora was mortified to discover that her daughter had been out drinking.
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If I reduced somebody to tears I'd be mortified.
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With these men, to compose is to hesitate; and to revise is to be mortified by fresh doubts and unsupplied omissions.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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Kelly looked mortified at Roxie's suggestion.
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I dangled, like bad laundry, mortified with the lack of movement.
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The anger and drunkenness that had clouded his face cleared and he looked at me mortified.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen
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But she is much mortified by her vulgar grandmother Mme Duval, her ill-bred relatives, and the pursuit of her bold and persistent lover Sir Clement Willoughby.
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_Mea culpa, mea culpa_; and _can_ you forgive a very much mortified old lady who is really and truly fond of you?
The Younger Set
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Down on the beach, accessible behind the 10th green, and especially in the small, wooded ravine in front of the 15th tee, there were stray balls foozled by hapless amateurs, who were presumably too mortified to halt play and look for them.
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I remember seeing a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two stages in a chaise with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels; which when I saw him had ceased rather suddenly, and without a passage through him; his pulse was then weak, though not very quick; but as nothing which he swallowed would continue in his stomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was mortified; he died on the next day.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Now that I am bereft of it, my fond, my mortified recollection goes back to scenes, which, could I return to them again, would afford me the most exquisite delight -- the antepast of heaven.
The African preacher : an authentic narrative,
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Films are routinely dubbed to keep the easily mortified unmortified.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forgetting the introductory remarks really mortified me.
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Google "mortified" it collected e-mail, URLS, passwords from Wi-Fi networks
Group gives Obama administration poor grades on Internet privacy
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I hope their parents were mortified when told their children were involved in this type of thing.
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Everyone laughed at me and I was duly mortified.
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Hatred of the Count, mortified self - love, and the resolution to vanquish what he termed the whim of a peevish beauty, would inevitably have precipitated her into difficulties most disastrous, if happily the inconstancy of his nature had not in the end relieved her from his persecution.
Rosamund, Countess of Clarenstein ...
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I was totally mortified, wondering what people thought was happening in there!
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I'm always mortified when something like that happens.
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Adam and Eve were mortified by what their nakedness represented.
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On the contrary Mr. Coddington was a keen, direct person who came straight to a point in a few terse sentences; predominant in his character was an unflinching sense of justice which was, however, fortunately tempered with enough kindness to make a misdoer mortified but never afraid in his presence.
The Story of Leather
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`Oh Alfred," said Norma, who was crying, `I'm mortified.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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She later retracted her statement and said she was mortified to have used the term "directive".
Magistrates were told to send rioters to crown court, emails show
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The mortified bonnet of Mrs Miff is sharply turned towards them, for she espies in this early visit indications of a runaway match.
Dombey and Son
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He slouches to his feet and leans against a wall to be photographed, all limbs and mortified smile.
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I laughed it off but, deep down, I was absolutely mortified.
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Nor need he mortify sin; Christ has mortified sin for him.
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He saw himself as a dashing romantic figure and was mortified to find himself seen as a slapstick comedian.
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It is the wisdom of those who desire to have their sin mortified to make a good use of reproaches that come from ill will, and to turn them into reproofs.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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I whispered, mortified and afraid, but also faintly confused.
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Zack wailed, mortified, his face turning red and giving him the appearance of an overripe tomato.
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Keenly mortified by the dullness of his senses and instincts, he knew he was no companion for Swinburne.
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Mum is standing over me assembling a costume and I am mortified because not only is my costume home made, it is made out of a brown paper rubbish bag.
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But Mr. Jerningham would have been much more surprised and puzzled if he had waited one minute longer, and seen this Mr. Perkins, who had so gallantly escaladed the hackney-coach, step out of it with the most mortified, miserable, chap-fallen countenance possible.
The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
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Needless to say he is mortified.
The Sun
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The word mortified sounded like you'd gone to granite, like you couldn't move to save your soul.
Nineteen Minutes
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I was somewhat mortified to be told that I was too old to join.
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Kate, mortified, nearly in tears with fright, turns and rushes back into the house.
SEA MUSIC
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The wound mortified and caused his death on 14 November 1804.
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I'm a clergywoman who would be mortified if a mere bra strap went astray when I was in public.
Carol Howard Merritt: You Were Good, Amy Winehouse
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They have also the sweet smell of the rose and the jessamine, which is a little flower, but the sweetest of all others; and there is not any flower to be found that is rare and exquisite in that country which is not in that wilderness, to delight the senses of those mortified hermits.
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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I was even more mortified to see the so-called mummified collection - it was really more of a couple of pieces plus essays and diagrams on the technology behind MRI'ing a mummy.
Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA
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It may be some one of our original stock of sins not yet mortified; or some new sin into which we have recently fallen; or some relaxation of our spiritual life, out of which has arisen, perhaps, one dangerous temptation, such as lukewarmness, selfishness, or vainglory.
Sermons. Volume Third.
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Alan was well enough pleased to see his finery so fully remembered and set down; only when he came to the word tarnish, he looked upon his lace like one a little mortified.
Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
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‘I was mortified that on my second case I had done exactly what I had set out to avoid at all costs,’ he said.
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It took ages for Mum to worm it out of me between fits of mortified giggles.
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She was mortified by a cruel paparazzi photograph earlier this year showing her looking a bit lumpy.
The Sun
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Google "mortified" Street View cars collected email, URLs, passwords; new regulatory scrutiny around globe
Video: Google CEO on Street View
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In place of moral vertigo what we get, especially in West's fine performance, is a mortified awareness of the wages of sin.
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Even our closest allies in the US and UK were shocked and mortified, raising the ghost of the White Australia policy.
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I seem to recall reading that Ravel did something similar on purpose, omitting the composers 'names from a concert program and then sitting in mortified amusement as the pro-Ravel claque unwittingly booed his own piece.
Reading Session
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Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.
A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks: Book summary
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I have a real regard for him, and was beyond expression mortified to find it, as I thought, so ill bestowed We were both warm, and of course both to blame.
Lady Susan
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I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle and seringahood.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Had this happened fifteen minutes earlier, Kate would have been mortified if her father had even thought about shaking his tushie in public, but somehow suddenly everything was OK.
Parents Behaving Badly
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If I told her that she'd upset him she'd be mortified.
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felt mortified by the comparison with her sister
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‘Oh, I'm so terribly sorry’, he adds, thoroughly mortified, reaching for a napkin and upsetting the table again.
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This most extraordinary pile was situated in a deep valley, closely surrounded by hills, as though the very light of the sun had been an indulgence too great for the mortified beings who once inhabited there to enjoy, while the croaking of rooks, the dashing of a waterfall, and the gloom of overhanging woods, seemed well calculated to sooth that melancholy, which, in the idea of monkish superstition constituted that divine principle whose real existence dissipates every mental gloom, and diffuses serenity and joy through all the powers of the soul.
Ashton Priory
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29 But they disdained the language and the sciences of the Greeks; and the vain sophist, or grave philosopher, who had enjoyed the flattering applause of the schools, was mortified to find that his robust servant was a captive of more value and importance than himself.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Teacher Jane Norton said: ‘The poor girl who was looking after him was mortified.’
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But this was enough to wear off the shyness on her side, and any symptoms of mortified pride and vanity on his.
North and South
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I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch.
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I was somewhat mortified to be told that I was too old to join.
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She quickly pulled the covers to her neck, feeling mortified to be caught wearing a hospital gown.
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I am mortified that any discussions about my private life should come out in this way.
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He was more mortified at that, than the feeling of the pain and he did not moan no matter how hard they basted him.
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If I break a glass at someone else's house, I'm mortified beyond belief.
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A recent confession that made me howl is in the anthology Mortified, where one of the contributors, Jillian Griffiths, describes her teen sexual fantasies about the members of Duran Duran — John puts on the Rio album and climbs on top of her like a baby tiger.
She’s Just Not That Into You
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I'm mortified to think someone has to get injured or worse for anything to be done.
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They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads.
Underworld
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I felt mortified at some neighbours feeling obliged to cough up dosh.
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He received a cut of the thumb, was afterwards made an out-patient of the infirmary, but the wound mortified, produced lock-jaw, and death ensued.
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In fact after reading what the minister did on Wednesday, the President must have felt awfully mortified because he knows belligerence is not for leaders.
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He gives the first a wrong date: he assures the world that there is no question about Scaliger's quadrature being wrong, in the eyes of geometers at least: and he states that Clavius mortified him {112} extremely by showing that it made the circle less than its inscribed dodecagon, which is, of course, equivalent to asserting that a straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
