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Meanings of ignoble passion in English

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Usage of ignoble passion in English
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Or was it the outcome of that other affair, sheer ignoble passion?
The Emancipated
2
Her beauty came compellingly between him and certain immediate temptations of ignoble passion.
The sleeper awakes
3
For ignoble passion her sole remedy was to crush passion altogether.
Robert Browning
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Was it, then, impossible for me to conquer this ignoble passion?
Castle Nowhere
5
We "see red" when we are dominated by ignoble passion.
Architecture and Democracy
6
It is an ignoble passion, my son!
The Price of Things
7
The duke was too noble and generous himself to feel any such ignoble passion as jealousy-hewas far too confiding.
Wife in Name Only
8
Long ago I ceased to think of her, only as one may remember a brief surrender to an ignoble passion.
Medoline Selwyn's Work
9
One was a noble and the other a very human but ignoble passion; but Fernando was only a common mortal with mortal weaknesses.
Sustained honor: The Age of Liberty Established
10
I do not say it would be noble to marry me; but it would be a noble thing to conquer an ignoble passion.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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That contemptible review, and now her father's ignoble passion-suchthings were enough to make all literature appear a morbid excrescence upon human life.
New Grub Street
12
To the writer's mind there is but one method, and that one by an appeal to man's most ignoble passion-thelust of gold.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
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So do we make the most ignoble passions of our children our allies in the unholy task of divesting them of their childhood.
Confessions and Criticisms
14
He knows no law but his own will, and that is moved, not by conscience or reason, but by ignoble passions and sensual desires.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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'I listen to you,' replied Petronilla, 'because I am curious to learn into what extravagances your ignoble passion drives you.
Veranilda
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