she was just a soldier; and so modest about itwell, you couldn't help admiring her, and you couldn't help imitating her; not even a King Charles spaniel could remain entirely despicable in her society.

Certain codes of honor are supposed to be observed even in international warfare, and a soldier who breaks his word of honor is considered the most despicable of men.

Men do truly more render themselves despicable than others when, without just ground, or reasonable occasion, they do attack others in this way.

There remain then only twopence, sir, to be disbursed for things not immediately necessary for the preservation of life, but which no man can want without being despicable to others and burdensome to himself.

"It is melancholy,"we use the recent words of the world-honored physician of the Queen's household, Sir John Forbes,"to be forced to make admissions in favor of a system so utterly false and despicable as Homaeopathy."

A creature of languors; a mere system of inert dejected cells when alone, pure destructive principle, if you like,yet she held this boy's heart to her, without a letter, possibly with little or no thought of him, across a thousand leagues of seaand this, through those frequently ungovernable years in which so many men become thick and despicable with excess.

Look at this nation, favoured by nature before all others, endowed before all others with reason, intelligence, power of judgment, and firmness of character; look at these people degraded, nay, made despicable among all others by their stupid ecclesiastical superstition, which among their other capacities appears like a fixed idea, a monomania.

A conflagration like that of Moscow, is full of sublimity, though dreadful in its effects; but the burning of a solitary hut makes the incendiary despicable by the meanness of the act.

He is a man whom no one could despise, for he has nothing despicable about him.