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shamefaced
1. ' Stephen said slightly shamefaced, 'Not terribly chatty this morning
2. Berndt has the grace to look shamefaced as I turn to him in feigned astonishment, but retorts in kind to his friend, protesting that it wasn’t his fault if Joris had made that assumption; it was just that he hadn’t corrected him
3. ‘What is it, Ben?’ he looks shamefaced then admits that he’s upset Katie and that she’s crying
4. Bert however seemed to realise that he had overstepped the mark and he looked a bit shamefaced and kept his head down for a bit after
5. Do you know of any other family in the Glen, or out of it, of whom all these things can be said? Away with shamefaced excuses and apologies
6. 25 A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she who is shamefaced will fear the Lord
7. And so, a little shamefaced, I’d go along to the youth groups that were arranged by
8. We looked shamefaced at each other and then there was a loud sigh
9. “I agree, and I apologise,” said a shamefaced Will Bartlett
10. Shamefaced, I returned to the sofa
11. And Priscilla, shamefaced, told him as well as she could remember
12. It was Simla’s turn to look shamefaced
13. Behind him Razumihin strode in gawky and awkward, shamefaced and red as a peony, with an utterly crestfallen and ferocious expression
14. Then she stopped again with a shamefaced feeling that her voice would quiver and break again
15. But I understood: there was a quiver of something different in her voice, not abrupt, harsh and unyielding as before, but something soft and shamefaced, so shamefaced that I suddenly felt ashamed and guilty
16. In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time, who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place
17. They seemed to realize that they were there only on sufferance, and their demeanour was shamefaced and humble
18. ' He was so conscious of this that it gave him a shamefaced manner, which, coupled as it was with his shabby clothing, did not create a very favourable impression upon those he addressed, who usually treated him with about as much courtesy as they would have extended to any other sort of beggar
19. She bestowed fat pears neatly, head by tail, and among them ripe shamefaced
20. They all looked shamefaced
21. Even some who had flogged themselves yesterday said nothing today, looking a bit shamefaced about it all
22. Finally, with a shamefaced apology for his weakness, he rose once more
23. husband’s shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated awkward efforts to approach the subject, and how at last, having thought of the one means of helping Dolly without wounding her pride, he had suggested to Kitty—what had not occurred to her before—that she should give up her share of the property
24. Everyone will know about his drinking; he'll disappear for two or three days every month or so, and they'll all nod and smile and say in their various accents, "Old Sebastian's on the spree again," and then he'll come back dishevelled and shamefaced and be more devout for a day or two in the chapel
25. Scarlett looking shamefaced into the dark eyes calm following confession could never be hers
26. The hairs tied in the knot hurt Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile
27. The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference
28. But as soon as Pierre turned toward him he wrapped his dressing gown around him with a shamefaced and angry look and hurried away
29. Pierre in shamefaced and happy what to say next to introduce a fresh subject
30. The men were quiet now, and most of them looked shamefaced
31. Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh
32. ‘But why are you so shamefaced about it? Romeo!
33. "How this grand lady was deeply in love with his honour all her life long and for twenty years, but never dared to speak, and was shamefaced before him because she was a very stout lady
34. He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes
35. Pierre in shamefaced and happy confusion glanced occasionally at her, and tried to think what to say next to introduce a fresh subject
36. Their love seldom finds expression in words, but if it does so, it expresses itself neither with assurance nor beauty, but rather in a shamefaced, awkward manner, since people of this kind invariably have misgivings that they are loving unworthily
37. “Is this the way you attend to your ‘life work,’ young woman?” he asked, with mock severity, and she seemed a little shamefaced; but when the waiter brought the luncheon, he found all three of them on the floor, and Elizabeth not at all pleased with the fickle Carlotta’s preference for the house which Tom had built with the blocks