I am very sorry; but my Time is so much occupied; and while the Almighty will Deign to permit me to live, will be so occupied; as that I shall not have leisure to pay visits.
I am very sorry, but my time is so much occupied, and while the Almighty will deign to permit me to live will be so occupied as that I shall not have leisure to pay visits.
I write you one line to tell you that if it should be in my power I will call upon you this day after three o'clock.
He assures her that whenever she has expressed a Desire to have back a paper enclosed to Him, he has invariably complied with her desire immediately on his having perused it.
For I'd no longer deign to live my life If told, "Upon her head is laid the pave.
For this reason, native historians and writers seldom range the stories in their literary chronicles, or even deign to mention them by name.
The Lord having invited her to speak, she expressed herself in these terms: "Lord, in order to solve the problem you deign to submit to me I shall not study the habits of animals in general nor those of birds in particular.
Again Lady Linton bowed; but she did not deign to open her lips in response, although a spot of vivid red settled in either cheek.
Some, indeed, did not deign to recognize her at all.
The chiefs of his nation will be always happy to regulate their conduct by the counsels he may deign to give them.
For more than an hour I have been racking my brain in inventing fresh signs, to which you would not deign a reply.
I have merely got ready a glass of mean wine for you to wipe down the dust with, but I wonder, whether Your Highness will deign to bestow upon it the lustre of your countenance, and accept it.
I wonder, now, if Fra Diavolo would deign to capture just me, alone!
He had heard that His Majesty might come, he said, and he had presumed so far as to hope that His Majesty might deign to act as godfather for the poor Indians, and so he had waited.
Monsieur le Prince, I will leave you a half company of my Austrians, if, though a Chasseur, you will deign to command them.
If you desire my love, if you consent to this alliance, opposed to all human laws, but grand and singular also, deign to tell me so, and I shall fall at your feet.
Now and then one of these flyers will deign to carry a single sleeper, but such is the exception.
Fair Sir," saith the King, "I beseech you of all loves that you deign to give me the head of this knight that you are carrying on the point of your lance.
Sir," saith she, "I beseech you that you deign grant me the aid of the knight that shall bear this shield from hence.
The damsels had great joy thereof that so good knights should deign wear garments so poor.
Lucan," said the King, "Joy hath been somewhat far from me sithence that the Queen hath been dead, and Gawain and the other knights have held aloof from my court so that they deign come hither no longer.
I reddened up, and then more deeply for having shown I blushed, and methought that to deign to converse with the unhappy of however lowly rank, was rather a mark of goodness than a fault.
I will accept all--for me all: but deign most wonderfully to strengthen the hearts of those to whom I was so very dear!
By the court and the admiralty, however, their conduct was viewed with approbation; and Keppel, at least, would not deign to answer his anonymous accusers.
He would not even deign to receive such a communication as the treaty of the 6th of July; and when a copy was left on his sofa, he refused to answer it, or to admit any explanations.
So long as Miss Plowden will deign to bestow her company, so long will she find me among her most faithful and persevering attendants, come who may, or what will.
Does Antagoras himself notdeign to share a meal with his guest?
Perchance the Great Chief will deign to strike a tomahawk into their heads, that our nation may be saved in war by the Big Knives.
Farrar did not deign to answer: his eye was on the wind.
Behind the lattice, on these summer evenings, stands the militant figure of that old retainer, Bridget the cook, her stout arms akimbo, ready to engage in vigorous banter should Honora deign to approach.
Virginia did not deign a direct reply to this, save by the corners of her mouth.
And so, protesting, he passed Stephen, at whom he did not deign to glance.
Her memory of that moment is, strangely, not of his face (she did not deignto look at that), but of the muscle of his shoulder half revealed as he stretched forth his arm.
Here was a woman who could be dealt with by no known rules, who did not even deign to notice a week of marked coldness.
She longed for "Nicolas" to say something to her, to deign to give some explanation.
His children thought no place more meet To make his grave than at my feet; They said 'twould greatly soothe their woes If I would let him here repose; Then begged that I would deign to wave My verdant branches o'er his grave.
As long as I have been stairs, when did you ever deign to sweep me?
As long as we have been giants, when did you ever deign to clean our food for us?
They answered: "As long as we have been razor, scissors, and knife, when did you ever deign to polish us?
Will my lord with the hook nose so great and noble deign to express a preference which of us shall be his handmaid?
Will youdeign to tell us how more formally we may address you?
The Prince Louis sent me to beg of his noble spouse, the Princess Joan, that she would deign to receive him.
And at such a time you do not deigneven to remember you have a brother!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
