And with a sneer of disgust on his face he surveyed them; and the scorn in his voice must have shamed them to the floor had they been of the blood of such as feel disgrace.
Why should I not cheat yonder scaffold and scorn the tyrant to the end?
With indignation and scorn she rejected his love, forbidding him to appear before her as he had utterly forgotten his duty, and at the same time, threatening to complain of him to her husband.
His first number ("Honor and Arms scorn such a Foe") is one of the most spirited and dashing bass solos ever written.
Here Mohammad preached to unwilling ears, and met with nothing but opposition and scorn from the chief men, which soon spread to the populace.
He freely forgave the Kureysh all the years of sorrow and cruel scorn they had inflicted on him: he gave an amnesty to the whole population of Mekka.
The Greek youths mocked me, since I shunned inscorn Them and their praises of my brows and hair.
But Miss Elsie would scorn a man who slighted his duty.
Old Tassel knew he could count on his followers, but he had permitted John Watts to believe he would consent to war, and he feared the scorn of the fighting chief and his men.
The one shaman present shivered, his eyes glistening with fear, and, unable to witness the blazing scorn the blue eyes were pouring into Polcher, drew his blanket over his head.
We are impostors and deceivers; his audiences must ridicule and scorn us for nobodies.
And be the rule and law of my remaining days to shun all men, be blind to all men, scorn all men.
Suddenly, a look of unmitigated scorn swept across her face, and the music ceased.
It was a tone of almost ferocity with which she spoke, and the trembling lip, the flashing eye, and the swollen veins on her temple betrayed the self-scorn racking her heart within her.
The Spirits answered, That they were fine ingenious Writers, but yet so self-conceited, that they would scorn to be Scribes to a Woman.
I spake her fair, and pray'd her to return; But she in scorn commands me to be gone, And glad I was to fly, to save my life.
As good men as you, and have thought it no scorn to serve their 'prenticeships on the pillory.
Back with that leg, my Lord Prior: there be some that were his servants think foulscorn to be called yeomen.
Well, doctor, henceforth never reckon[465] it scorn At my sweet Clinton's hands to take the horn.
This for thy service I will grant thee freely: All devils shall, as thou dost, like horns wear, And none shall scorn Belphegor's arms to bear.
I'll teach him never scornto drink his health Whom I do love.
Its purpose is to keep out too recent blood, which would bring into contempt these offices, and men of lofty lineage would turn their backs and scorn to take them.
Ad te levavi oculos meos A Psalm of the pilgrim Church amidst this world's scorn and contempt, expressing her absolute dependence upon Christ.
Fourthly, being grown rich, they grow negligent, and scorn to touch the school but by the proxy of the usher.
Outrage unpunished, when a prince is by, Forfeits to scorn the rights of majesty: No subject his protection can expect, Who what he owes himself does first neglect.
He shall be ranked with my nobility, And kept from scorn by a large pension given him.
She was, to me, all that a woman should be, in intellect, in her scornof all that is ignoble and false, and in her loyalty to her friends.
He did not scorn the most revolting miscreant as the realist of to-day commonly scorns his own hero.
We knew from recent books that we have noticed, from the scorn of 'Ephemera Critica' and Mr George Moore, that Stevenson had the first essential qualification of a great man: that of being misunderstood by his opponents.
The Naturalists, nurtured upon advancing science, looked with scorn upon the emotional extravagances of the Romantics.
That was probably the very last thing he thought of doing--a thing, indeed, that he would have laughed to scorn if anybody had been so rash as to propose it to him.
It is the expression, not of envy, but of contempt, the utter scorn of the man of the world for the uncultivated boor.
The miserable Mahars and Mangs of the Indian Deccan, who, living or dead, are held by all the peoples around them as not less vile than the carrion they do not scorn to eat.
I would be fair with them; but they wrap themselves up in their selfish obstinacy, and scorn my offers.
I scorn to answer the fellow who is afraid to show himself; but I warn you all to be prepared for a desperate contest.
When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.
This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past in the name of the Revolution.
As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely an expression of thanks.
The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters felt it with the double force contributed by religion.
