" One feels here a touch of disdain and frivolity.

But heretofore this Animal was in better repute: Kings and princes did not disdain the best so much as mere tradesman do in our time.

Quickly after she swelled into an Air of Majesty and Disdain, then kept her Eyes half shut after a languishing Manner, then covered her Blushes with her Hand, breathed a Sigh, and seemd ready to sink down.

" Gallegher's comment on this was one of disdain.

He gave a sharp exclamation of disdain.

LORD B. (with an airy flourish of courtly disdain).

repeated his lordship, in high disdain.

And the sarcastic village-father, after hearing "some scholar" read the list of her titles and her virtues, "looked disdain and said": "Away, my friends!

Most of my readers will perceive this; but I shall be sorry if by any I am supposed to make pleas for the vices of men, or treat their wants and infirmities with derision or with disdain.

Am I dead to the world, that I thus disdain Its moil and toil in the prime of life, When perhaps a score of years remain To win more gold in its selfish strife?

The very picture of disdain, From all such gorging, it was plain, They had determined to refrain.

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

Coleridge wrote a poem on the "Destruction of the Bastile," probably in 1789 or soon after (first printed in 1834); and in September, 1792, some lines "To a Young Lady, with a Poem on the French Revolution" (first printed in The Watchman in 1796), in which he tells his emotions "When slumbering Freedom roused with high disdain With giant fury burst her triple chain!" 28*the disenchanted nation*.

If her mother or sisters said anything to her about her dress, which was never put on as it should be, or about her hair, which was never done up neatly, she flouted at them with disdain, and said that clothes did not make the woman; which was very true of itself, but nevertheless, neatness in dress is always required to make a respectable woman.

Nor does the accomplished expert with the dry fly disdain with fat of deer to grease his line, nor with paraffin to dress his fly and make it float.

As I turned from the lovely girl, who had received me with marked courtesy, to the cold air and repelling hauteur of the dark-browed captain, the blood rushed throbbing to my forehead; and as I walked to my place at the table, I eagerly sought his eye, to return him a look of defiance and disdain, proud and contemptuous as his own.

then she asked, with greatest disdain, "What do you play, boy?" "Nothing but 'beggar my neighbour,' miss.

"He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy," said Estella, with disdain, before the first game was out.

When the very soul gets to be absorbed in the process of rolling gold over and over, in order to make it accumulate, the spirit grudges the withdrawal of the smallest fraction from the gainful pursuit; and here lies the secret of the disdain of appearances that is so generally to be met with in this description of persons.

" I understood this to be a carte blanche to Sennit to carry off as many of my people as he saw fit; there being nothing novel or surprising in men's tolerating in others, acts they would disdain to perform in person.

Among them, behind a taborette piled with bait of food and drink, the Jewish dancing woman from Algiers lolled in her cushions, a drift of white disdain....

In the house of bel-Kalfate the Jewess danced, still, even in voluptuous motion, a white drift of disdain.

But let these proud spiritswho, despite their noble blood and their princely quality, do not disdain to barter their loyalty for goldlet them beware lest they urge me beyond my patience.

She forgot about the marriage and its problems, and plunged at once into an exposition of her views of medicineher hostility to the allopaths, with their huge, fierce doses of dreadful poisons that had ruined most of the teeth and stomachs in the town; her disdain of the homeopaths, with their petty pills and their silly notion that the hair of the dog would cure its bite.

When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope.