Sentence examples similar to root of mortification from inspiring English sources

Fortunately, she died of mortification not long afterwards.

The bones vanished into store in a cloud of mortification.

At the time, this moment of mortification received scant attention; the outbreak of war was imminent.

Angela's season-long "Pilgrim's Progress" of mortification had left no scars.

Cults of mortification and philosophies of human wretchedness began to emerge.

These included fasting, wearing sackcloth, lying in ashes and other forms of mortification, almsgiving, and the threat of temporary excommunication.

I've seen some people who were fierce in the face of mortification and death.

Greenwood tends to wince when he walks into a room, as if in anticipation of mortification to come.

Boys give him a knowing thumbs up, but Mr. Cuomo's daughters shoot him a look of mortification.

From that time on, I got hooked on two aids many people use to survive with a minimum of mortification.

My feelings of mortification and shame — as an American — could not be deeper.