From the time that my mind had run on love and matrimony, I had lost all relish for serious study; and long before that time, I had felt a sentiment bordering on contempt for the pursuits of my father.

But surely a nation ought not to be suspected of fearing death, whose very women show a contempt of life which no other people have exhibited.

Then, casting one of his Shylock glances of hatred and contempt on the mute and astounded audience, majestically left the stage.

Catrina looked at her mother with a gleam of utter contempt in her eyes.

The spirit of indignant hatred and contempt with which he regarded the mass of humanity; his quiet and powerful perception of their failings, errors, and crimes; his zeal for liberty and freedom of thought, tended at once to generalize, while it embittered, his satire, and to change traits of personal severity for that deep shade of censure which Gulliver's Travels throw upon mankind universally."

She looked at the young man in a bold, provoking, significant manner, and then, like Santerre, cast a sly glance of mocking contempt at Marianne and Valentine.

But with respect to the rest of mankind, some it will fill with a contempt by no means elegant, and others with a lofty and arrogant hope, that they shall now learn certain excellent things."

The insult bred More of contempt than hatred; both are flown; That either e'er existed is my shame: 'Twas a dull sparka most unnatural fire That died the moment the air breathed upon it.

Shelley frequently dwells upon self-contempt as one of the least tolerable of human distresses.

I expected all sorts of stupidity and insolent contempt from those....

"With what hands," or "with what strength did they, especially [as they were] men of such very small stature" (for our shortness of stature, in comparison with the great size of their bodies, is generally a subject of much contempt to the men of Gaul), "trust to place against their walls a tower of such great weight.

These and other phenomena of life in our islands have aroused bitter contempt among Germans.

One danger of the present appears in over-emphasizing the Malay blood, just as in Spanish times a real loss seems to have come from the contempt toward the Chinese which led to minimizing and concealing a most creditable ancestry.

Having turned with a look of passionate contempt towards the solicitor who was prosecuting, and cried, "that little fellow's skull if ye were to hit it would go like an egg-shell," he beamed upon the judge, and said in a wheedling voice, "but a man might wallop away at your lordship's for a fortnight.

"And what might you be doing around these parts?" asked the big man, veiling his contempt under a mild geniality.

A term of contempt like "pilchard" and "poor John."

That this comparison is not always favourable to some exalted reputations of the present hour is indeed sufficiently notorious to all who have the pleasure of Mr. Villiers's acquaintance; and nowhere is his mastery of the art of conversation more conspicuous than in his knack of implying dislike and insinuating contempt without crude abuse or noisy denunciation.

But he never meddled personally with the grocer's boy after that; though we must do him the justice to say he always spoke of Mr. Dobbin with contempt behind his back.

I seemed to see a light of hatred and contempt below his smile; and I felt that he was not in the least taken in by the air which I assumed.

CONTEMPT between married partners springs from disunion of souls, 236.

But on the whole Byron's feeling towards Keats was one of savage contempt during the young poet's life, and of bantering levity after his death.

And while he threw the ears with contempt into a flower border in the garden, Gabriel thought with delight of the atavic force which had resuscitated in a Catholic church, the pagan offering: the homage to the divinity of the firstfruits of the earth fertilised by the spring.

It must not be supposed that there can be no contempt out of court.

The pamphlets against the Wilkite agitators and the American rebels are little more than a huge "rhinoceros" snort of contempt against all who are fools enough or wicked enough to promote war and disturbance in order to change one form of authority for another.