This is the work of nature--a generous nature, that disdains tame submission to wrongs.
The honor of our country forbids and disdainssuch a suggestion.
Why, even the worm at last disdains her shattered cell!
Why, ev'n the worm at last disdainsher shattered cell!
Some magic that disdains the cumbrousness of nature's progress has wrought this change.
He disdains all comfort but revenge, and that he will procure at any price.
Yet we are enthralled by this spectacle; for if cultivated man disdains the crude dramatic pictures of lust and cruelty admired of his ancestors, he, nevertheless, hankers after tragedy.
He has the logical imagination, he disdains the Zola "human documents" in preparing his story, and while he is by nature an ironist, he is too serious in his outlook on life to play the part of a mystifier.
The Tuscan matrons with each other vied, To bless their rival sons with such a bride; But she disdains their love, to share with me The sylvan shades and vow'd virginity.
The prince disdains the dastards to pursue, Nor moves to meet in arms the fighting few; Turnus alone, amid the dusky plain, He seeks, and to the combat calls in vain.
In magnanimity; for he, too, disdains small creatures, and despises their insults.
This at least I owe to no one but my own free choice, and volition that disdains constraint.
Flattery exhausts itself: a man of parts Disdainsto imitate.
Tis he whose every thought and deed By rule of virtue moves; Whose generous tonguedisdains to speak The thing his heart disproves.
Whose soul in usurydisdains His treasure to employ; Whom no reward can ever bribe The guiltless to destroy.
Probably in this case, as in so many others, we bewilder ourselves by attempting to make nature bend to generalities to which she disdains to submit.
The cabbage Pieris consumes the pungent leaves of the Cruciferae as the food of her infancy; the Silkworm disdains any foliage other than that of the mulberry-tree.
The inventory of precursory types sees nothing but organic resemblances and disdains the differences of aptitude.
It has but few conventions and disdains restraints.
Conscious of her superiority in this respect and puffed up with vanity she disdains to hold converse with her less fortunate sisters.
With closed eyes and moving fingers, not unlike the Rishis of old, he, as it were, disdains to look at the external world.
The mountain mists and “mountain dew” suit better with deer-stalking than with cricket: our game disdains the Dutch courage of ardent spirits.
The proud savage disdains to answer your question, Master Dudley," observed Endicott, with a smile.
No astonishment, therefore, need be excited at the various judgments formed by man: his interests never being the same, any more than his notions of utility, he condemns or disdains every thing that does not accord with his own peculiar ideas.
He disdains the implied charge of prudery, and indeed his language is what could not have been used by an effeminate or a coward.
Thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far From thy report as thou from honour; and Solicits here a lady that disdains Thee and the devil alike.
No, I know you have a soul that disdains such imposition; and are master of qualifications, both of mind and body, which alone entitle you to a match that will set you above the world.
With that strange pride which disdains to exhibit characteristic or individual qualities, it is frequently the most noble virtues which are thus concealed.
She disdains him for being tired with that for which all men envied him; and he never came home, but it was: "Was there no sot that would stay longer?
Gatty for ever smiles upon you; and Frontlet disdains to see you smile.
It relies upon its own resources, and disdains external show and relief.
He disdains all the vulgar artifices of authorship, all the cant of criticism, and helps to notoriety.
Tis he whose every thought and deed by rules of virtue moves; Whose generous tongue disdainsto speak the thing his heart disproves.
Whose soul in usury disdainshis treasure to employ; Whom no rewards can ever bribe the guiltless to destroy.
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