Since Time abases and uplifts again All that is human, and the modest heart Is loved by Heaven, who hates the intemperate will.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
But there is now in Europe, in every intelligent mind, abroad as at home, a profound stupor, a feeling, as it were, of personal insult; for the European continent, whether it will or no, is responsible for France, and whatever abases France humiliates Europe.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
"Ah," he cried, "I have been blind indeed, and what you say abases me to earth.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton