He might have told you that he despised them, but the truth was that they made a sunshine in which he liked to bask, a delight which was not without its influence.
With an older experience she might have treated him differently; but her very eager longing that he should rise above what she herself despised made her impatient that he did not rise at once.
As the Captain thought, it was evident he had little heart for it; and as he stood silent and undetermined at the door, Ellen despised him for his lack of courage in pressing the very suit she most dreaded.
I have despised life, and it is as an empty husk to me.
They walked silently towards Peri, and Wogan was wondering whether in her heart she despisedhim when she stopped.
She despised the woman for her stupidity; none the less, that was the wife she would choose, if she must needs choose another than herself.
What could be more touchingly beautiful than the air, 'He was despised and rejected of men'?
With a glow of pride Franz arrayed himself in his new dress, which, with its edgings of gold lace, he thought dazzlingly beautiful after his despised suit of grey.
Joseph's mind, as he put hisdespised work out of sight.
The greeting between Robert and the man whom he heartily despised was formal and cool.
Dorothe was a haughty cavalier and despised all Puritans and, most of all, her husband's mother; but the cavaliers were in trouble.
Virginia was the last province to submit to the commonwealth and first to declare for the returned monarch, and the royalists residing in Virginia despised what the common people insisted in calling freedom.
As for mere wealth, she really despised it, though she liked her favourites to be rich.
He dedicated his life to the consolation of a despised woman.
In my opinion, Ferdinand, it is better to bedespised for a moment than to be neglected for a life.
From the most despised doth the Lord ever choose his servants.
He was in the position of a man who has lived with a despised but deeply felt mistress, and who at last thinks he holds the ideal woman, the bride, the untouched, within his grasp, at the price of the severance of the old ties.
The injured man thumped his pillow and turned it over, so that the despised myrtle sprig lay crushed beneath it.
Hatred which arises from despised affection is always most bitter.
Happily there existed in Jerusalem a strong party who respected the law so despised and scoffed at by the court faction.
Considering the sufferers as the wards of the people, he speaks of their terrible anguish as being that of the entire national body: "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
He showed how a nation can be small yet great, wretched and hunted to death yet immortal, at one and the same moment a despised slave and a noble exemplar.
These were despised of the people, who called them "Traitors to the Covenant.
He despised the swaggering beachcombers who had flung off the decencies of civilisation along with the habiliments of civilisation and who found a marrowy sweetness in the husks of the prodigal.
Aristippus, following his example in this matter, despised gold and regarded it as of no value.
So in fierce contention they clamour, showing by such examples as follow that every great man has been content with virtue, and despised metals.
For he despised our Churches, and would not be with us in the Communion of the Blood of Christ.
Let it be granted that some philosophers, as well as Anacreon of Teos, despised gold and silver.
Is it true that because these philosophers despised money, all others declined wealth in cattle?
There is a despisedclass of pawn usurers who prey upon the poor.
She would never forgive her mother's relations who had despised her father, and at any mention of them her large blue eyes would always flash resentfully.
He had a small shop in Hanover Street and carried on a profitable business, but his wife despised it from the first, and refused to allow their only child to assist her husband when he became old enough to do so.
He positively despised the idea of voyaging across the water to see what is just as good at home.
He has paid his respects to his fellow countrymen, and is heartily despised by all camps, political, religious, artistic.
Algernon the world reputed rich and happy, and the Squire despised Elinor when her person was no longer coveted by his rival.
Regardless of his own physical wants, he despised the same wants in others.
How have I hated instruction, and my heartdespised reproof!
Cobbett despised andsoforths, for their lack of meaning; and I find none in this one, unless it be, "of tinsel and of fustian.
How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!
The Lacedemonians never traded; they knew no luxury; they lived in houses built of rough materials; they ate at public tables; fed on black broth; and despised every thing effeminate or luxurious.
I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency.
Once upon a time, about fifteen hundred years ago, seven young men lived near each other in Ephesus, who belonged to the despised sect of the Christians.
She despisedherself for being so agitated, and for the furtive feeling that overcame her as she glanced about to be sure that she was alone, and then she ran up stairs to her room and locked the document in her own writing-desk.
Perhaps he did avoid them a little, and he despised himself for doing it.
For Rufus Heath, in his heart of hearts, despised a republic and had no faith in the stability of its institutions.
His brother and sisters felt themselves very noble, and despised him.
Since I have known you I have despised myself, for I am afraid I have an inconstant nature.
I should deem myself the most miserable of men if I despised a woman for making me happy.
The pathetic and inspiring description, "He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him, he was despised and we esteemed him not.
Despised and rejected of men," he died, but in later days his name came to be reverenced as perhaps none had ever been before.
The Greek thinkers and scholars despised their masters, but their own heroic days were gone and they were helpless to cast off the yoke.
My brother, Red Wolf, instead of accepting my friendly proposals, despised them.
Ever occupied with grand schemes, hedespised all those idle amusements in which so many waste their lives.
Wallenstein despised the command, and continued to harass the besieged by incessant assaults.
