Citations:abject

English citations of abject

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment.