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She had heard Alexandra go on at length about Disgraces to Families: disgrace involved being sent to Mobile and shut up in a Home away from decent people.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

For with such faith on mortal things to dote, As unto God alone is just and fit, Disgraces worst the prize who covets most: Should reason, amid things of sense, be lost.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

He looks his angel in the face Without a blush: nor heeds disgrace, Whom naught disgraceful done Disgraces.

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie

Lights and bouquets—flush and flare— Motley medley—splash affair— Deft disguises—flute and fife— Half the world without his wife— Dominos, and masks, and faces— Graces three—and three Disgraces.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891 by Various

This Accident, after the various Disgraces and Disappointments I had already suffer'd, Does it not, Madame, give you the Idea of another Orestes, pursu'd by Destiny from one Country to another?

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von