This letter grieved and mortified Nicholas.

He did not mention this to his daughter, but Natasha noticed her father's nervousness and anxiety and felt mortified by it.

And he was mortified by a more erious charge than murmurs about superfluity of zeal.

Jackson held the goblet, mortified, yet he had never felt such a hunger, nay––lust, as he did for the contents.

Louis, who had hoped that Aquitaine would descend to his daughters, was mortified and alarmed by the Angevin marriage; all the more so when Henry of Anjou succeeded to the English crown in 1154.