" And as she spoke the doors were burst open, and in rushed the people, headed by the most pious Bonze in the Empire (after the late Principal Bonze), who plunged a sword into the Emperor's breast, exclaiming: "He who despises this life in comparison with another deserves to lose the life which he has."

War is considered the noblest occupation of a man, and Khaled despises the love of a noble maiden "from pride in his passion for war.

She prefers WALLACK'S, or BOOTH'S theatre,whereas your usual boy despises the legitimate drama, and prefers to have his dissipations served up with a great deal of horse and plentifully spiced with the presence of the cheerful clown.

Ah, gentle dames, it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises!

"Of course she knows him," I said; "she knows he would give his right hand for her, which is a good deal under the circumstances, and she very properly despises him for it.

"Falloux despises Dupin.

I didn't say anything to you, Cary, or to Dawsonhe despises theories.

It is my belief that he despises me because I am French, aristocrat, and catholique.

The learned, full of inward pride, The Fops of outward show deride: The Fop, with learning at defiance, Scoffs at the pedant, and the science: The Don, a formal, solemn strutter, Despises Monsieur's airs and flutter; While Monsieur mocks the formal fool, Who looks, and speaks, and walks by rule.

But occasionally there comes in a little piece of fanciful criticism on the text, or a comment on some side-view or transaction, or the suggestion of a probability or a possibility, which remind one of the thin puerilities of the commentators whom Dr. Furness despises more than of the general drift of his own discussion.

He despises the present age as an innovation and slights the future, but has a great value for that which is past and gone, like the madman that fell in love with Cleopatra.

If he understands Latin or Greek he ranks himself among the learned, despises the ignorant, talks criticisms out of Scaliger, and repeats Martial's bawdy epigrams, and sets up his rest wholly upon pedantry.

He is like Nebuchadnezzar after he had been a month at grass, but will never return to be a man again as he did, if he might, for he despises all manner of lives but his own, unless it be his horse's, to whom he is but valet de chambre.

It is an audience of this class that I have in mind throughout the following pages; and I believe that a playwright who despises such an audience will do so to the detriment, not only of his popularity and profits, but of the artistic quality of his work.

Society despises the unmarried woman who bears a child.

It will give him a chance to show how strong he is, and how a mighty warrior despises such little things as food and drink.

He despises her: he plays with her as dexterously as she thinks she plays with him; but he likes to chat with her; and they rattle away for a whole evening without the least constraint.

Not a God far away from men; who does not feel for them, nor feel with them; not a God who despises men, or has an ill-will to men, and must be won over to change his mind, and have mercy on them, by many supplications and tears, and fear and trembling, and superstitious ceremonies.

If he refuses to claim his inheritance, and despises his heavenly birthright, and lives as if he were a mere earthly creature, only to please himself, and help himself, he will not be full of those graces.

If I have a headache she not only pities me, but despises me as a weakling utterly unfitted to manage a household.

But a "popular version" despises documents.

The conjurer despises his congregation; if the priest despises any one, it must be himself.

The conjurer despises his congregation; if the priest despises any one, it must be himself.

One cherishes the Ideal, and neglects and despises the Real, while another reverses his judgment.

The man of the world despises catholics for taking their religious opinions on trust and being the slaves of tradition.