He adored her. He would willingly enough have damned himself for her. There was no sacrifice he would not have made to bring her nearer to him. In his upright, quiet, simple kind of way, he immolated himself before her. For months his heart had ached with this hopeless passion. He recognized that it was hopeless. He knew that she would never love him, and, to do her justice, she never had given him reason to suppose that it was in her power to love him, r any man. And here he stood, obliged to appear ungrateful and prejudiced, mean and vindictive, in her eyes.英文原著 · 《Democracy An American Novel》
Petty wrongs are never repaired by the masses; they sometimes vindicate their rights by means of the strong arm, when seriously required to do so, but in general the wrong is endured, and the victim immolated without awakening attention or leaving any regrets among those who escape its immediate consequences.英文原著 · 《New York》
Hasten to raise its limbs and to immolate the victim. And look at this英文原著 · 《Peace》
all immolated victims; another would sacrifice for the success of some英文原著 · 《Plutus》
This notion of an immolated gnat delights me! And now let the英文原著 · 《The Birds》
immolate a sheep as a token of our gratitude. Let us sing the英文原著 · 《The Birds》
What -- what is it about the cult of Bobby Axelrod that makes them wanna immolate themselves?美剧 · 《Billions》