For, slightingall the sages knew, I learn philosophy from you.
But, slighting sophists and their flimsy aid, To God and Reason left the works they made.
Oh," said the Rector, in a slighting tone, as if Jael Batty had no right to intrude herself into more momentous conversation.
But slighting these Rakshasas, that mighty one of dreadful prowess plunged (farther and farther).
My attention was called to this chapter, many years ago, as affording good illustrations of the slighting of speech, by Mr. J.
The fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel, descriptive of Belshazzar's feast, affords good illustrations of the slighting of speech.
Mignon's slighting reference to the nursery children angered her.
If you take part in the revue and Veronica agrees to be in it, too, then you will have to treat her with courtesy and make no slighting remarks about her behind her back.
The ignoring, the slighting of this great power, could not be forgiven by so aspiring a nature as Pitt's.
This is no place for effects; nor for slighting or shirking.
Then, too, there is an individuality which the artist has to express through his representation of the external; and he is justified in altering or slighting facts in order to bring about that more important self-expression.
It argues a disrespect and slighting to use contractions to our betters.
They nicknamed him the "Monarch," possibly from some assumption and arrogance in his tone, and he is rarely mentioned by them except in a slighting manner.
Nothing could exceed the slighting contempt in which she and her sister held Lucy.
The transitoriness of human life should lead to full and hearty recognition of God, not to careless slighting of him.
It is an old controversy and is the occasion of Martin Luther's slighting allusion to the Epistle of James as "a veritable epistle of straw.
Paying respect to persons, dignities, and positions is a frequent form of meanness, especially in the manner here condemned, of courting the rich and slighting the poor.
Still less can any one be fond of being made the object of slighting and condemnatory remarks.
Hugh have been polite enough to keep from that slighting remark or at least laugh good-naturedly with the rest, and paid no more attention to it, instead of making so much of such a trivial affair!
She never gave people unnecessary food for gossip--any slighting of her irritated him, she was careful to spare him that.
She had not forgotten the slighting turn of his head.
Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, by means of some encouragement he had met with, took upon him the part of slighting and insulting his lordship on all occasions that proffered.
Minnes talking, and he speaking his mind in slightingof the Commissioner, for which I wish there was not so much reason.
Possibly if she did, Richard Darke's attentions to her would be received with less slighting indifference.
More maddening still, the man so slighting her, has been making boast of it, proclaiming her suppliance and shame, showing her photograph, exulting in the triumph obtained!
Norman resented the slighting words with the utmost vehemence and passion; so much so, that the man feared some immediate collision between them.
Moreover, the youth learned from him conceit of their own superior wisdom, and the habit of insulting their fathers as well as of slighting their other kinsmen.
