Significats de intense mortification en anglès

To his intense mortification, he had completely lost hold of the English tongue!

She read it in the first place with intense mortification, and then with indignation.

I had to take a running shot, and the ball fell short, to my intense mortification.

Katherine's face flamed scarlet, to her intense mortification.

This was an advice to which the earl listened with complaisance, and carried out with despatch, to her intense mortification.

Then, to the intense mortification of Justina, John changed the subject, as if it had been one of no moment to him.

The vain young prince suffered not only from the physical pain, but the intense mortification of knowing that his beauty was destroyed for ever.

It is a curious fact that diffidence often betrays us into discourtesies which our hearts abhor, and which cause us intense mortification and embarrassment.

But to the intense mortification of these valiant men, not a single living being was to be found as food for bullet or tomahawk.

The defeat caused intense mortification to the whites; but in reality the expedition was of great service to Kentucky, though the Kentuckians never knew it.

One characteristic of the Irish ascetics appears very clear through all the exaggeration and all the biographical absurdity; it is their spirit of intense mortification.

Intense mortification gave him a strange, malicious expression.

"I think he is quite as severely punished in suffering from extreme terror and intense mortification and public ridicule," said Cap.

"That is all very well," said Hilary, swallowing her intense mortification as well as she could; "but what about this case?"