Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, andabased me to the level of a hearth-brush.

His moral force wasabased into more than childish weakness.

If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the mostabased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just spirit of equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!

Some intrepid larches waved green pennons in the very midst of the turbulent water, here and there a veteran lay with his many-summered headabased in the rocky course of the stream, and here was a young foolhardy beech that had climbed within a dozen yards of the rampart.

For the rest of the term he tormented Philip cruelly, and, though Philip tried to keep out of his way, the school was so small that it was impossible; he tried being friendly and jolly with him; heabased himself, so far as to buy him a knife; but though Singer took the knife he was not placated.

How inscrutable are the ways of providence -- for what great and mysterious purpose has it pleased heaven to abase the man once so elevated, and raise up him who was soabased?"

They all wanted to say something expressive of repentance, but no one knew how to begin, and it was evident, from the prim expression of Rose's face, that she intended to stand upon her dignity till they had properlyabased themselves.

He looked at her pensively for some time as though he had been concentrating the melancholy thoughts evoked by the sight of thatabased woman.

Of the manner and extent to which he took our trumps into custody, and came out with mean little cards at the ends of hands, before which the glory of our Kings and Queens was utterlyabased, I say nothing; nor, of the feeling that I had, respecting his looking upon us personally in the light of three very obvious and poor riddles that he had found out long ago.

Their foes were triumphant, their friends captive andabased, their home desolate, the benighted wilderness around them, and a rigorous destiny, in the shape of the Puritan leader, their only guide.

"Which means that you are vexed at not having found me moreabased and humiliated than I am?" I retorted with a smile.