"Likely he'd be carrying my stuff about on him!" said she, contemptuous of her own keen interest.

Besides such epithets as hayseed and clodhopper, contemptuous in their very origin, villain (farm servant), churl (farm laborer), and boor (peasant) have all gathered unto themselves opprobrium; villain now involves a scoundrelly spirit, churl a contumelious manner, boor a bumptious ill-breeding; not one of these words is any longer confined in its application to a particular social rank.

However our neighbour doth incur the calamities of sin and of punishment, we must not be insolent or contemptuous towards him.

" "I see it all," replied Wilhelm; "it is probably on this account that the multitude is so inured to vice, because it takes pleasure only in the element of ill-will and evil speech; he who indulges in this, soon becomes indifferent to God, contemptuous toward the world, and a hater of his fellows; but the true, genuine, indispensable feeling of self-respect is ruined in conceit and presumption.

The King impatient eyed them all with scorn, And hid his thoughts by wildest passions born; And then at last contemptuous to them said, "So all my seers of trouble are afraid?

If we design either to please or vex them into better manners, we must be as sportful in a manner, or as contemptuous as themselves.

" "What other thing, Jig?" Gaspar overlooked the contemptuous nickname, doubly contemptuous on the lips of a stranger.

Then Constance, contemptuous at the idea of such poverty, recalled what Madame Seguinto whom she referred as Valentinehad told her of the dilapidated condition of the old shooting-box.

And yet she wasn't the Sofia they knew, but another person altogether, a transfigured and exalted Sofia, aflame with righteous wrath and contemptuous with the pride of birth which had leaped into full being a moment since.

He seemed to dominate the scene, to be stronger and more contemptuous than the ice itself, but also to be in sympathy with it.

The Chinese sat superbly contemptuous through it all, and finally spat over his shoulder, putting enough scorn into the action to freeze the boldest.