Ashamed

Examples

• He must be ashamed and disgusted altogether. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am not ashamed to tell you the honest truth. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had never liked Sir Percival, but the manner in which he left Lady Glyde made me feel ashamed of having eaten his bread and lived in his service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These fine sunny days began to make me ashamed of my winter merino, so I have furbished up a lighter garment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Is any gentleman ashamed to undertake and execute the commission? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I am ashamed, she said, her face away from him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then he was ashamed and was quiet and I went to sleep but, man, he's a ruin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But will I not be so ugly there with this cropped head that thou wilt be ashamed of me? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was so quaintly cheerful that I could not long be otherwise, and was almost ashamed of having been otherwise at all. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am ashamed of you, Holmes, said Lestrade with dignity after a few minutes' silence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was most sorrowfully indignant; ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed to herher affection for Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
• One or two of them are so trivial, said Dr. Trevelyan, that really I am almost ashamed to mention them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He didn't seem at all ashamed of it, for when I explained and hurried on, he waved his hand, sock and all, saying in his loud, cheerful way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Some of the ladies started back, as if half-ashamed of their feminine interest in dress. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I am ashamed of you and of myself, but it shall never happen again. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I told Ma I was ashamed of myself, and I must be taught to dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If he does he ought to be ashamed of himself, said Fred Bentinck, and so I shall tell him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I am ashamed to look at you, Marian, she said, after what you submitted to downstairs, for my sake. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was ashamed to tell her that he wanted to fly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But I am very much, and without being at all ashamed of it. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When he is by himself he will not mind saying or doing many things which he would be ashamed of any one hearing or seeing him do? Plato. The Republic.
• A man ain't ashamed to say he wants to own a racing stable or a picture gallery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I never was so ashamed in my life to hear a man talk folly as I have been to hear you talk this day to the present company. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'm ashamed on you, Samivel. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It should be very beneficial to a man in your practice at the bar, to be ashamed of anything, returned Sydney; you ought to be much obliged to me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hangdog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am ashamed to trouble you, Mr. Farebrother, said Fred, whose fair open face was propitiating, but you are the only friend I can consult. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Lucinda