| This is the disheartening tale of a noble people ignobly led. |
| Or maybe I would fall in, ignobly, with the packs of Hollywood runaways I had seen profiled sensationally on television news magazines. |
| Nabokov kills Charlotte, ignobly and in an instant, and very near the start of the book. |
| I decided that I had not only wasted my life but had acted ignobly in taking money from Laurene. |
| Certainly no man ever fell so ignobly, and by such ignoble instruments, as I did. |
| What I really aim at is an absolute realism in the sphere of the ignobly decent. |
