We, who have duties under Christ to all souls in our care, must neglect no means of showing them the light, though it involve mortifying our own private feelings.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
After hardships the most unheard of, disappointments the most mortifying, the proud and enterprising De Soto threw his troops into Mauville, a large town near the confluence of the Bigby and Alabama.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
He thought us wrong in taking Belgium from France-he said it was now considered as so intimately united that the loss was very mortifying.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond