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Example sentences for "deigned"

Lexicographically close words:
deifies; deify; deifying; deign; deigne; deigning; deigns; deil; deils; dein
  1. It was Northway, addressing a cluster of mill-hands, and evidently posing as one of a superior class who deigned to give them disinterested advice.

  2. Serena's brother, a young gentleman of nineteen, articled to a solicitor in the town, was accustomed to appear at meals, but seldom deigned to devote any more of his leisure to the domestic circle.

  3. Mrs. Albert Murray has neither of these qualifications any more than I have, and for two days she hasn't deigned to address a remark to G.

  4. I came to a decided conclusion that it was most unkind and unjust not to do for my real savior what I had deigned to do for thee," was the godly reply, which made Nebrotk very uneasy and filled his heart with renewed passion.

  5. When, through His great mercifulness, the Lord deigned to show to the holy Tsaritsa His living cross, Tsar Mirian hastened to send to the Emperor Constantine the Bishop John, asking him for a piece of the wood of the holy living cross.

  6. I had hoped that the countess would have deigned to receive this poor present at my hands.

  7. In half an hour they returned informing us that my lady had deigned to accept the invitation.

  8. Let us make known to our Holy Father the Pope, what God has deigned to begin through our ministry, in order that we may pursue our course according to his will, and under his orders.

  9. I immediately embraced his knees, and I tried to testify to him my gratitude and my extreme desire to render myself worthy of the favour he deigned to spread upon me, by my attachment, my very humble services, and my most profound respect.

  10. And what's your opinion now, of the old gentleman, since he deigned to interrupt your conversation?

  11. When Mrs. Oliver Jacques looked in upon them one memorable morning in February no premonition of great things to come stirred the company; only indifferent glances were directed upon her by the few who deigned to observe her at all.

  12. My host has not deigned to say one word to me; he simply sits and blinks.

  13. Only the little stallion deigned to notice Yegorushka; he looked at him with his large foolish eyes, and even he showed no interest.

  14. He scarcely deigned to give a look, and said smiling: 'It is late to inquire after true tidings from a great distance, but is it not Thor that I see?

  15. For the next two or three days, therefore, like pilgrims round some ancient shrine, we patiently kept watch; but he scarcely deigned to vouchsafe us the slightest manifestation of his latent energies.

  16. It is true that, until this moment, fortune had never deigned to smile on him; no young girl seemed to care for his assassinating glances, or respond to his interested advances.

  17. Still the impromptu visit you have deigned to make me must be most agreeable to me, be assured.

  18. But none of all the race of Cain, Save those whom he hath deigned to grace With yellow robe and sapphire chain, May pass beyond that outer space.

  19. The young man deigned no answer; he shrugged his shoulders and turned toward the window where Gretchen was standing.

  20. How long the dispute might have lasted, before the iron arguments of despotism achieved the inevitable victory, I know not; but it was cut short by a party whom neither disputant had deigned to consult.

  21. The incarnate shutter rising and grumbling vaguely, the lady swept in and deigned him no further notice.

  22. I deigned no reply to this bundle of lies, which did accuse heavenly truth of falsehood for not being in a tale with him.

  23. Admitted in due course to the family council, he showed plainly, though not discourteously, that his pride was deeply wounded by their having deigned to treat with Margaret Brandt.

  24. Timour, in his Institutions, has not deigned to calculate his troops, his subjects, or his revenues.

  25. I left home the day before yesterday," Aristabulus now deigned to reply.

  26. He has deigned to keep me near him, to educate me as his daughter and give me some accomplishments; and I have for him the most lively gratitude.

  27. He frowned a little more, and deigned to hear my request to the end.

  28. Knowing something of those people outside the church doors, I have often thought what an edifying sight it would be if the Lord deigned to listen and take a few of them at their word.

  29. From this, he proceeded to lash the preacher of the day, who, if he deigned at all to quote the words of the Gospel, was so taken up with the manner of his discourse that the matter seemed of small import.

  30. MADAM,--I am informed that your most Serene Highness has deigned to remember that I was in the world.

  31. Madam of Wurtemberg, apprised of all the feelings that still live in me for the memory of Madam the Margravine of Baireuth her Mother, has deigned to visit my hermitage, and pass two days with us.

  32. I did promise myself the high honor of a visit to his Prussian Majesty, who has deigned to invite me, with all the kindness possible: but, alas, for such hopes!

  33. Whenever his health permitted, he loved to be present at the funerals of those who died in the town; those consolations which he deigned to give to the afflicted families bear witness to the goodness of his heart.

  34. The Pope deigned to enrich by numerous indulgences the brotherhoods to which it gave birth, and in recent years Leo XIII instituted throughout the Church the celebration of the Festival of the Holy Family.

  35. He gave the nuns a special proof of his good-will in the visit which he deigned to make them in the common hall.

  36. And the high official had deigned to smile.

  37. Time fled so rapidly and to Lucile so pleasantly, too, that she had reached the very verge of her legal maturity before she once deigned to bestow a thought upon what change, if any, her eighteenth birthday would bring about.

  38. He was looking for the heiress, but all of those faces were familiar, and almost all deigned him their sweetest smiles in passing--for was there another marriageable man in all Speckport as handsome as he?

  39. Captain Cavendish lifted his hat and rode on, and the distrait beauty just deigned a formal bend of her regal head, and no more.


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