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Example sentences for "deigning"

Lexicographically close words:
deify; deifying; deign; deigne; deigned; deigns; deil; deils; dein; deinceps
  1. The lady frequently passed him without deigning to cast her eyes on his red-coat.

  2. Horatio charged it to speak, but it stalked away without deigning a reply.

  3. With that, Montagu, deigning no further regard at Nevile, wheeled his, palfrey towards a distant part of the ground, to which the multitude was already pressing its turbulent and noisy way.

  4. I hurried them from the church, resolutely locked the door, and marched up the path without deigning a glance at the young man.

  5. He strode on without deigning a single glance behind, still in cold derision presenting me his broad back and silently challenging me to shoot.

  6. The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eye, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view, and looked into futurity.

  7. As Uncas thus replied, he pointed with his finger toward the solitary Huron, but without deigning to bestow any other notice on so unworthy an object.

  8. Without deigning to bestow further words, or to wait for any answer, the savage cast his rifle into the hollow of his arm, and moved silently through the encampment towards the woods where his own tribe was known to lie.

  9. Your royal highness, in deigning to continue to me so flattering a place in your recollection, makes it still more impossible for me ever to forget your many acts of condescending kindness.

  10. Shall we bid adieu to this oft travelled over thoroughfare without deigning a parting glance, as we saunter on, at that low old-fashioned house, No.

  11. Not deigning on the boy a glance to cast Swept careless by the gorgeous Queen of Gain.

  12. The Hircanian, without even deigning to speak to me, told his black eunuch that I was impertinent, but that he thought me handsome.

  13. He was calculating the issue of a little business affair which could not fail to bring him a few thousand louis; and was even deigning to smile over it to himself when Croisilles was announced.

  14. The Senate had rejected that appropriation, without even deigning to propose any amendment whatever, either in form or amount.

  15. We have seen an empire in our own day, of almost fabulous grandeur and magnificence, carrying on all its vast undertakings upon a currency of gold and silver, without deigning to recognize paper for money.

  16. He had made up his mind to do so without consultation with any human being, and without deigning to calculate the chances or the time of success.

  17. I see it, madam," answered Malcolm, without deigning to move.

  18. Without deigning other reply than a haughty shake of the head, Mrs. Graham cast a deprecating glance toward Carrie, who muttered, "How disgusting!

  19. Quite a different conception is formed by Mignet of the emperor's character, which he has cast in the true heroic mould, not deigning to recognize a single defect, however slight, which may at all impair the majesty of the proportions.

  20. La Valette calmly listened, but without deigning to reply; and when the speaker had ended, the stern chief ordered him to be taken from his presence, and instantly hanged.

  21. Without deigning a word of remark, the Indian struck her a heavy blow on the cheek with the back of his open hand, which nearly stunned her.

  22. But most of all the flinging fire leaped into the rocky mouth of the glen below me, where the horsemen passed in silence, scarcely deigning to look round.

  23. The crowd disperse from right to left as he passes on, greeting him with lowly bows: scarcely deigning to return the courtesy, he clatters up the aisle with rapid stride, and stands by the side of the kneeling bride.

  24. Deigning not, however, to remain longer with the guests, he sternly beckons to his attendants.

  25. Take care of your mistress, said I, and left the room, without even the ceremony of a bow, or deigning to look at her.

  26. And the gentleman, in a violent passion, flung out of the room, without deigning even to take up the letter which had fallen on the floor.

  27. Cherrie tossed her turban again, and curled her lip suspiciously, not deigning to notice him by so much as a glance.

  28. It was Mr. Clowrie, on his way to his office, and Miss Jo, just deigning to acknowledge him, walked on.

  29. Perhaps she thought of this as she swept past, a la princesse, just deigning to acknowledge her visitor's presence by her haughtiest bow.

  30. These observations were so many devices to induce Mrs. Branagan to offer her own speculations; but they failed utterly--that sage personage not deigning to pay the least attention either to Kerry or the subject of his remarks.

  31. Frank touched his cap with a somewhat stiff courtesy at this unceremonious address; and, without deigning a reply, employed himself in arranging the straps of his knapsack.

  32. The man, hardly able to refrain from indulging in a positive fit of stentorian cachinnation, without deigning any auricular explanation, pointed to the bank, on which Ferguson felt annoyed for not being permitted to reach.

  33. Montagu, without deigning a reply, motioned them to go, and then sat down, full of grief, on his bed.

  34. Put it down," repeated Conscience authoritatively, deigning no longer to argue or entreat.

  35. When he had shifted the saddle and mounted, he began to ride off with a great air, not so much as deigning to scowl at Ismail.

  36. But the guide strode on unconcerned with his easy Hillman gait, neither deigning to glance back nor making any verbal comment.

  37. Talents designed for choice poetic lore, Deigning to varnish scenes, that shun the day, With guilty lustre, and with amorous lay?

  38. At last in answer to a Furious Epistle I returned a Sarcastick Answer, which so incensed the Amiable Dowager that my Letter was sent back without her deigning a Line in the cover.

  39. I sent back to the Epistle, which was couched in elegant terms, a severe answer, which so nettled her Ladyship, that after reading it, she returned it in a Cover without deigning a Syllable in return.

  40. Colonel Witham, accepting the proffered clay and and the essentials for loading it, sat back in a chair, and puffed away solemnly, without deigning to answer the other's bantering.

  41. Dodging it, and without deigning to attempt to return it, Henry Burns closed with him once more, and they reeled together to and fro for a moment.

  42. As we approached, he trotted off into the grass, with his nose near the ground, not deigning to hasten his pace for our shouts, and shortly afterward we saw two others running in a different direction.

  43. Our hero, scarcely deigning to cast a glance at the heap thus placed before him, gave his hand to his late rival, and inquired kindly after his hurt.

  44. And they examined our weapons,-before deigning to look at anything else,-as if eighteen instead of five had been the general age.

  45. We wandered nearly an hour in search of an encamping station, for the surly villagers ordered us off every flatter bit of ground, without, however, deigning to show us where our jaded beasts might rest.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deigning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.