693 collocations for despises

Isabella, Daughter to Francisco; proud, vain and foolish, despising all Men under the degree of Quality, and falls in love with Guiliom, Mrs. Corror.

The loveliness of his mother, refined and white and delicate as she was, did not appeal to him; but Sarah, in her radiant youth, with her brilliant colouringfresh as a May morning, buxom as a dairymaid, scornful as a princesshad struck Sir Peter dumb with admiration, though he had hitherto despised young women.

Ferreri, who had been commissioned by Pope Clement to revise and correct the Breviary hymns, wrote in his dedication epistle: "I have given all my care to this collection of new hymns, because learned priests and friends of good Latinity who are now obliged to praise God in a barbarous style, are exposed to laugh and to despise holy things."

Had Donnegan returned these things to show how perfectly he despised his enemy?

But, as for meI am only a smith, and as a smith greatly would I despise thee.

Master of the illusions of life he threw himselfyoung and beautifulinto life; despising the world, but seizing the world.

He despised, too, the people of Israel.

Ay, Sir, those are Men that despise their lives.

He had great patience, says Ali, and "in nowise despised the poor for their poverty, nor honoured the rich for their possessions.

"She and Beulah are busy with little Evert, who crows and kicks his heels about as if he despised danger as becomes a soldier's son, and has much amused even me; though I am accused of insensibility to his perfections.

The multitude perhaps, indeed, may admire such things; but the judicious few whose opinion you despise will always laugh at what is absurd, incongruous, and inconsistent.

* * he says "If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or my maid-servant when they CONTENDED with me *

"Who, for the joy which was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

We cannot then utterly despise the religion of Egypt, in spite of the absurdities mingled with it,the multiplicity of gods and the doctrine of metempsychosis,since it included a distinct recognition of a future state of rewards and punishments "according to the deeds done in the body."

The student of history, however, must not "despise the day of small things."

The Portuguese neither liked nor trusted me; he hated and despised my race; he would have me watched, and would carefully check over my figures.

And [overlook] despise their masters.

In strong contrast with his contemporary, Byron, who professed to despise the art that made him famous, Keats lived for poetry alone, and, as Lowell pointed out, a virtue went out of him into everything he wrote.

The whole of modern thought is steeped in science; it has made its way into the works of our best poets, and even the mere man of letters, who affects to ignore and despise science, is unconsciously impregnated with her spirit, and indebted for his best products to her methods.

He made it a virtue to be ragged, hungry, and cold, like the ancient monks; an austere, stern, bitter, reproachful man, who affected to despise all pleasures,like his own disciple Diogenes, who lived in a tub, and carried on a war between the mind and body, brutal, scornful, proud.

He will spit fire and blow smoke out of his mouth with less harm and inconvenience to the Government than a seditious holder-forth, and yet all these disown and scorn him, even as men that are grown great and rich despise the meanness of their originals.

Death, if it befell me, would not be at all unseasonable, especially when you consider that my consulship was so many years ago; yet remember that in that very consulship I uttered the same sentiment, to make you feel that in any and all business I despised death.

He may and will be the better for me, if he outlives me; though he once told me to my face, that I might do as I would with my estate; for that he, for his part, loved his liberty as much as he despised money.

rankling in his heart, he came to despise all forms of monarchy, and to hate "redcoats."

Men are contemptuous of their wives visionariness, and women despise their husbands for "cold and calculating" tendencies.

693 collocations for  despises