" "Fifty pound!" repeated Adam, in a tone of lofty disdain, "no, Miss Anthea, it were not fifty pound.

Poor creatures of a day, In calm disdain thou seest them die away: O voiceless Sphinx!

Her own servants, whose minds were generally as deformed as their bodies, hated her, and bitterly resented what they deemed her haughty disdain of them.

But after one or two despondent glances, Yvette ever made the best of a bad bargain, and ordered quite a comprehensive little dinner, which she ate with the same air of utter disdain.

" "Oh," with superb disdain, "that's just for women.

the goddess cries with stern disdain, 'Begone! nor dare the hallowed stream to stain:' She fled, for ever banished from the train.

As if they understood French!" remarked the lady, gazing with supreme disdain in all directions, finally fixing her attention on Juanito's box, whence she thought she had heard an impudent hiss.

I will say, That I repent me of the day When I spake words of fierce disdain To Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine!

His first attempts, though displaying both originality and power, were received with a contemptuous disdain, as cold and repulsive as the penury and neglect which blighted the budding of his youth.

Your cool disdain for me A bitter anguish hath.

Since Sundays have no balls, the well-dressed belle Shines in the pew, but smiles to hear of Hell; And casts an eye of sweet disdain on all Who listen less to Collins than St. Paul.

" She threw herself back in her chair and cast on him a glance of insolent disdain.

She told the story of her bitter wrong In poignant words of passionate disdain.

Like Strafford, he was commanding in his person, dignified, reserved, and sullen; with an eye piercing and melancholy, a brow lowering with thought and care, and a lip compressed into determination and twisted into a smile of ironical disdain.

This Pantheism did not generate in Xenophanes any arrogant disdain for the religion of his time.

And Pharaoh's altars in their pomp disdain: To slight his gods was small; with nobler pride, He all the allurements of his court defied; Whom profit nor example could betray, But Israel's friend, and true to David's sway.

Condemning with profound disdain All other nations' heartless greed, How couldst thou buy from humbled Spain A people struggling to attain A freedom suited to their need?

" Anyone looking at his expressionless face and her lazy disdain (and there were many in the hall)

" Delia, though the native modesty of her character caused her whole face to be suffused with blushes at having the eyes of the whole company thus turned upon her, regarded the peer with a look of ineffable disdain, and turned from him in silence.

But he looked at her and through her with royal disdain, and so passed her by.

Fastidious old Naylor regarded his wife with the affection of habit and with a little disdain for the ordinariness of her virtuesnot to say of the mind which they adorned.

"You cannot imagine the majestic feminine disdain with which you may be informed that a five-cent bar of soap should be delivered at the back door instead of the front door.

The sharp disdain on me contemptuous flung?

The housemaid looked, he thought, with infinite disdain at the rusty mourning and flamboyant tie, and flounced about and led him upstairs.

Sometimes it seems as though the mysterious spirit of life was hardly worthy of the vessels it has called into being, hardly treats them fairly, uses them with an ignoble disdain.