If the word is incidental rather than vital to the meaning of the passage that contains it, and if it gives promise of but rarely crossing your vision again, you should deign it no more than a civil glance.

(1 and 2 combined) Indignity, indignation, undignified, condign, deign, dainty.

And Thomson says: "If she, whom I implore, Urania, deign With euphrasy to purge away the mists, Which, humid, dim the mirror of the mind.

This is mere vaunting on the part of our neighbours, who seem to want la gloire in everything; and we should not deign to notice it, if it had occurred in a work of small pretensions; but M. Curmer's book professes to be a complete exposition of the scientific principles of cookery, and holds a high rank in the didactic literature of France.

What though not all Of mortal offspring can attain the heights Of envied life, though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasure and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them.

who with her leads Sweet Innocence, that prattles by her side, A naked boy!Harassed with fear I stop, I gaze, when Virtue thus'Whoe'er thou art, Mortal, by whom I deign to be beheld In these my midnight walks; depart, and say, That henceforth I and my immortal train Forsake Britannia's isle; who fondly stoops To vice, her favourite paramour.'

deign to look at this!"

"If you will deign to accompany me to the bazaar, I will pay you immediately.

If I would let him here repose; Then begged that I would deign to wave My verdant branches o'er his grave.

I'll deign to let thee wash my feet; Such work becomes one in thy place, To drudge for me is no disgrace.

The streamlet, with a deep drawn sigh, In silv'ry tones, made this reply: "Illustrious oak, pray deign to hear, 'Twill not disgrace theenone are near, And I this once a word would say, As I am wending on my way; Behold that path wind through the grass, Where many by thee daily pass; See, where it ends, just on my brink, Then frankly tell what thou dost think.

It lives and brightens there; Engraved upon each bleeding heart, Which cannot, will not, deign to part With such a jewel rare.

But who will deign to take an interest in the history, however affecting, of a few obscure individuals?" "Father," I replied, "relate to me, I beseech you, what you know of them; and be assured that there is no man, however depraved by prejudices, but loves to hear of the felicity which nature and virtue bestow.

"But one of your disdainful haughty beauties, who wouldn't deign to say good-day to a chap with less than six or seven thousand a year.

Mother did not deign to write to me, but in her letter to grannie I was described as an abominably selfish creature, who would not consider her little brothers and sisters.

I picked up my pen and bitterly reproached my aunt in a letter to which she did not deign to reply; and from that day to this she has rigidly ignored menever so much as sending me the most commonplace message, or casually using my name in her letters to my mother.

Will Your Majesty not deign to remember that St. Aulaire's life and sword have been ever at Your Majesty's service?"

Have I not forced them to give up what they called their commune, for the whole duration of my life?' I held my tongue," adds Guibert; "many folks besides me warned him of his danger; but he would not deign to believe anybody.

My mother-in-law did not deign to answer him.

"Will your ladyship deign to choose her chamber?

Swarms of children were shooting their arrows at deer-skin targets; groups of braves, fantastically attired, lounged under the shade of the wide-spreading umbrella trees, smoking fragrant tobacco in long-stemmed pipes, but they did not deign to give the visitor even an inquiring glance.

The day after the foregoing conversation he wrote a note to her, wherein he said that if the Contessina de Lira would deign to be awake at midnight that evening she would have a serenade from a voice she was said to admire.

God does not deign to convince the incredulous.

May Your Holiness, therefore, deign to accept the narrative of this voyage.

He says that he has kept silence for two years, but that the autumn season impels him to sing; in spite of his love, his lady will not deign to reply to him: but his devotion is unchanged and she may sell him or give him away if she pleases.