There was a certain hard, quiet restfulness in scorning it all so whole-heartedly as either stupid or base.
I think that Whistler learned "loving detail here and scorning it there" only in his later works.
Why of course not," said Katie stoutly, and they laughed and seemed very near to Helen in thus scorning her fear of getting fat.
Make me feel the narrowness in scorning the trying to see just because not agreeing with the thing seen.
He taught nankind by toil, by love, To cheer the world that must be theirs; And ne'er to look for peace above, By scorning earthly joys and cares.
Scorning to make use of oilskins he stood grasping the handrail surrounding the conning-tower, and gazed fixedly at the horizon on the starboard bow.
Scorning to surrender, the sturdy skipper served out rifles and ordered his men to fire at the submarine as she rose to the surface to hail the "Iticaba" to heave-to.
Their leader, scorning death or surrender, flung himself with his braves on the Russians in front, but was borne down and caught, fighting to the last.
But one excepted spirit stood aloof, Scorning to join the fellowship of flight.
Scorning to be diverted from his path Because, forsooth, the meddling Shimei Pointed it out to him offensively, Saul moved at once to go to Bethany.
Scorning an indoor sedentary life, they left all civil offices to the bourgeoisie, and devoted themselves exclusively to war.
Davison urges the value of experience, scorning the man who thinks to fit himself by books: "Our sedentary traveller may pass for a wise man as long as he converseth either with dead men by reading, or by writing, with men absent.
Strong, eager, masterful, scorning the blazing sun, his reckless waste of energy marked him as a stranger in that place.
Edward Franklin accepted his seat in Judge Bradley's office without any reservations, and he paid his daily fee of tenure as had all the other students before him, scorning not the broom.
The Indian walked his horse directly up to the barricade, his eye apparently scorning to take in its crude details.
In her own frank way, scorning all circumlocution, she went at once to the subject nearest their hearts.
Look at me, and let me see whether you are an honest man scorning falsehood, even though it might shield a fellow-creature from harm.
I am his wife: if he has forgotten me, I will not live for scorning eyes to see.
Hermia, it is not friendly in you, it is not maidenly, to join with men in scorning your poor friend.
Unkind Hermia, to join with men inscorning your poor friend.
With our new galloping sons of glory, Who, scorning all such slack and slow time, Dash to posterity in no time!
Cut off from all hope of official promotion, scorning to sue for political pardon, he strove to wield in the courts some of the power he forfeited in politics.
Hermia, it is not friendly in you, it is not maidenly to join with men in scorning your poor friend.
Finally Sinful, scorning a shouted ruling on a hypothetical question concerning the law of averages, turned suddenly and appealed to the marshal, whose smiling reply was not a confirmation of the appellant's claim.
Feverishly he worked, scorning food, unconscious of the glare of a molten sun rising to the zenith of its scorching heat.
From laughing, hope-filled youth he had run the gauntlet of the years, through the sobered but still hopeful middle age, scorning thought of the twilight of life when he should be broken in strength and bitter in mind.
Upon the humble worm he had crushed with scorning heel--his life-preserver--his only friend now.
The Egyptians hated the children of Israel and put them to affliction, scorning and having envy at them, and oppressed bitterly their life with hard work and sore labors of tile and clay, and grieved all them in such works.
For like as Job was assailed so was Tobit assailed of his kinsmen, scorning him and saying to him: Where is now thy hope and reward for which thou gavest thy alms and madest sepulchres?
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