107 collocations for slights

Disguised as a youth, Comala followed him, and begged to be employed in his wars; but was detected by Hidallan, son of Lamor, whose love she had slighted.

But though this raised his fame, yet it added very little to his profit: For, though it made his company exceedingly coveted, and might have recommended him to the great, as well as to the ingenious, yet he was of a temper not to chuse his acquaintance by interest, and slighted such an opportunity of recommending himself to the powerful and opulent, as, if wisely improved, might have procured him dignities and preferments.

I am not slighting my work by taking time to build myself into better shape for it.

O plead not vows; I wish you had not shown You slighted all things sacred for a throne.

We must not slight our cousin's aid.

Katy slighted these various tasks occasionally.

The God of heaven is pleased to see That little children all agree; And will not slight the praise they bring, When loving children join to sing: We're all brothers, sisters, brothers, &c. For love and kindness please him more Than if we gave him all our store; And children here, who dwell in love, Are like his happy ones above.

Can he be strenuous in his country's cause, Who slights the charities, for whose dear sake That country, if at all, must be beloved?

I would not slight the claims of my dead mother

While all are different, each seems genuine, And hers the only Jesus: hard outline, And rigid form, by Dürer's hand subdued To matchless grace, and sacro-sanctitude; Dürer, who makes thy slighted Germany Vie with the praise of paint-proud Italy.

Even the slanderer's own judgment and conscience might tell him so much; for they who most slight another's fame, are usually very tender of their own, and can with no patience endure that others should touch it; which demonstrates the inconsiderateness of their judgment, and the iniquity of their practice.

Hirsutus had no other reason for the valuing or slighting a book, than that it was printed in the Roman or the Gothic letter, nor any ideas but such as his favourite volumes had supplied; when he was serious he expatiated on the narratives "of Johan de Trevisa," and when he was merry, regaled us with a quotation from the "Shippe of Foles.

Filled with confidence in their good fortune, and proud of their beautiful island, they began to slight the people of the neighboring islands, and to treat them with insolence and scorn.

As Mrs. Thrale became more and more dissatisfied with her own situation, and impatient for its relief, she slighted Johnson's counsel, and avoided his society.'

The young men then disclose the names of the parties upon whom they had fixed those appellations respectively, when it may chance she has slighted the person to whom she is most attached, and contrariwise."

However brief the time and slight the connection, his spirit cannot be exorcised so long as the tower stands.

Falatius, Sir, has long made love t' Isillia, And now he'as gain'd her Heart, he slights the Conquest, Yet all the fault he finds is that she's poor.

"The suffering which my precious sister has brought upon herself by her connection with the anti-slavery cause, which has been a sorrow of heart to me, is another proof how dangerous it is to slight the clear convictions of truth.

Ere we have learnt by use to slight the crimes And sorrows of the world.

Plautianus became violently enraged, and whereas he had formerly hated Antoninus for slighting his daughter, he was now especially indignant, feeling that his son-in-law was responsible for his present disgrace, and began to behave more harshly toward him.

Beware, too, of slighting the day of the Lord, And never its duties neglect; But meet with his people, and rev'rence his word, If you would his blessing expect.

For he thought that if he should slight even the smallest detail, it would bring him reproach that would overshadow all his other achievements.

For thee perhaps, even now, of kingly race, Some dawning beauty blooms in every grace, Some Carolina, to heaven's dictates true, Who, while the sceptred rivals vainly sue, Thy inborn worth with conscious eyes shall see, And slight the imperial diadem for thee.

In revenge for thus slighting his dignity, the prefect condemns St Laurence to be roasted on a slow fire, adding, 'and deny there, if you will, the existence of my Vulcan.'

The scholars slight his Homeric disquisitions.

107 collocations for  slights