" For an instant the negro was nonplused, then the palm-leaf was flourished grandiloquently, while its owner said in a voice of withering scorn, "Laws!

And he cursed his eldest daughter Gonerill so as was terrible to hear: praying that she might never have a child, or if she had, that it might live to return that scorn and contempt upon her, which she had shewn to him: that she might feel how sharper than a serpent's tooth it was to have a thankless child.

I came into a world then, in which every man despised me before I had done any act to deserve its scorn," "Nay, this is pushing opinions to extremes!"

The Lucian wits knew this very well; and, with a converse policy, when they would express scorn of greatness without the pity, they show us an Alexander in the shades cobbling shoes, or a Semiramis getting up foul linen.

"If there be one being on the whole earth that feels the scorn and execration due to such a wretch more strongly than another, it is myself.

Some of the sayings are as mournful jeremiads as any uttered by Carlyle, showing great scorn of what ninety-nine in one hundred are vain of, and pursue after, as all ending in vanity and vexation of spirit.

'Now he can truly say he was willing to do somewhat for you, and that you would none of it, but thought scorn of his goodwill.

If thus thou wert born thou well mayst scorn to ope those lips of thine, That out should fly a treacherous lie, to meet a word of mine.

But though the innocent can endure the scorn of the world, it is hard indeed to be suspected by those they love.

I asked timidly whether I should require mosquito nets, and well remember the scorn with which the Chief of Staff greeted my question.

"My head is my own yet," replied Du Prat, "for I have the originals of the letters you allude to, and they in no manner justify the scorn you would put upon them."

But it was not gold, nor any vanity to be seen among my equals with that glittering jewel, that led me to meet the scorn of the gondoliers, and the displeasure of the great.

" "Well?" The single word came clear and distinct, but it would be difficult to describe the scorn which Joyce managed to pack into it.

it doth spring from profane boldness; when men design to put affronts on religion, and to display their scorn and spite against conscience, affecting the reputation of stout blades, of gallant hectors, of resolute giants, who dare do anything, who are not afraid to defy Heaven, and brave God Almighty Himself.

The fringe of your robe just touched me, me so low Your feet defiled, I saw the scorn in your eye, And the jeweled hand, that drew back your garments fine.

I know I shall excite the scorn of all the ingenuous youth of my time when I say that there was nothing that our superior civilization would call love making in those long walks through the winter nights.

If the child is a male, some consideration is shown to her; should it be a female, however, her lot is frightful, for aside from the severe beating to which she is subjected by her husband, she suffers the scorn and contumely of the rest of the tribe.

I have seen him, as Gloriana saw him for the first time, in rags that might provoke the scorn of Lazarus.

"For my vengeance speeds fast, and I come like the blast Of the night o'er the billowy brine; I forget not thy scorn and thy laugh on that morn When I wooed me the maid that was mine.

She never appeared to him as the being on whom his destiny was suspended; but, sooner or later, her own comparatively lustreless orbs changed into those diamonds, which could fulminate scorn not less than they could beam out supplication.

Giving was with these two a sort of obsession, though always he gave in a half scorn of his fellow creatures which was not more than half concealed.

Go, heap your scorn upon the noble Greek, who well knows how to delineate heroes, when in their anguish he lets those heroes weep.

But I pray, nevertheless, that she may never know it; since, cruel as she is, she might blame herself for having shewn a scorn so extreme; and I love her so, I would not have her pained for all her cruelty.

So there was not much mingling of the groups, whose slaves took example from their masters, affecting in public a scorn that they did not feel but were careful to assert.

thou art a woman, to fickle falseness born; Thou prizest those who scorn theethose who love thee thou dost scorn.