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Sentences ending with disdain

I suggest one sou as a fair price, a suggestion which he only receives with a smile of slight pity, and, I fancy, a little disdain. [4]
And they know not of the sadness, Of the palpitating pain Drawn through arid veins of manhood, Or the lusts that life disdain. [11]
His step was light, his head laid slightly to one side, as if in pleased and inquiring reverie, and there was a lifting of one corner of the mouth, suggesting an amused disdain. [11]
He stepped aside, involuntarily, apologetically, as though he had instinctively read in her attitude an unaccountable disdain. [9]
As he listened he thought of his eldest son, partly imbecile, all but a lusus naturae, separated from his wife immediately after marriage, through whom there could never be succession--he thought of him, and for the millionth time in his life winced in impotent disdain. [11]
She drew it back quickly in disdain. [11]
The clerk stared at the uneven lettering on the scrip with disdain. [9]

More example sentences with the word disdain in them

But if she wishes to fit herself for the best married life, she may not disdain the help of the cap and gown in devoting herself to the highest culture. [4]
In conclusion I will only say that I have a character to defend as well as Gen. Adams, but I disdain to whine about it as he does. [7]
The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus. [10]
Beauty Steele was under the eyes of another self, and neither disdain, nor contempt, nor the passive stare, were available. [11]
If you were to set these excellently dressed crayfish before a fine horse he would disdain them, and could not understand how foolish men could find anything palatable that tasted so salt. [10]
His eyes, in the mirror, did not meet mine, but were fixed, as on some distant and pleasing prospect, though there was, as always, a slight disdain at his mouth. [11]
He had remarked the keen, curious eye, the musing look, the habitual disdain at the lips. [11]
Horatius is on the bridge, scarce concealing his disdain for this puny opponent, and Lartius and Herminius not taking the trouble to arm. [9]
The very qualities that had been a hindrance, if not actually harmful, to him in the world he had lived in--his strength, his disdain for the comforts of life, his absent-mindedness and simplicity--here among these people gave him almost the status of a hero. [2]
His courage, his stone-cold strength, the disdain which was coming into his voice, impressed them, apart from his argument or its bearing on the previous debate. [11]
The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]
And yet we should not therefore disdain it, for it is that very drop of bitterness which warns us to drink of the joys of life thankfully, and in moderation. [10]
First you ask permission, brother, and then disdain to wait till it is given you. [10]
Now appeared Jasper's own inner disdain of the man who had turned his coat for office. [11]
If you disdain my guidance, honoured hero, at least accept that of some genuine Alexandrian. [10]
The disdain was more marked this morning. [11]
People no longer looked with distant dislike at the prisoner, but began to see innocence in his grim silence, disdain only in his surly defiance. [11]
There was no longer abstraction, indifference, or apparent boredom, or disdain, or distant stare. [11]
She turned away in disdain and left the room; and since that time there is one episode in our life which we never refer to. [5]
He had quickly imagined it all, and not without reason, for surely a furious disdain was at the grey lips, lines of anger were corrugating the forehead, the rugose parchment face was fiery with distemper. [11]
And at length Hippolyte, with a gesture of disdain, handed Nick the cage, as though he were giving it away. [9]
I have sinned heavily against you and will atone for it all my life; but do not disdain my gratitude! [10]
Perhaps the insult had been intended, for irregularities were committed with an insolent disdain for appearances. [11]
Since these aristocrats had become mutineers, the Eletto was a brother, and they did not disdain to secure his cooperation in the attack they were planning upon Antwerp. [10]
I shouldn't care for the paltry return in money," said Fulkerson, with a burlesque of generous disdain, "if it wasn't for the glory along with it. [8]
He had played for death, with an insulting disdain, yet here he was alive. [11]
Hodder caught her eye again, and this time he was sure that she surprised in him a certain disdain of Mr. Atterbury's zeal. [9]
Was it that disdain which comes from conquest not important enough to satisfy ambition? [11]
This feeling of disdain was heightened when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes taking no notice of his arrival. [2]
But why did Dion, whom I loved so fervently, disdain me? [10]
But what it cost me you disdain to ask. [10]
Yet you, whose cold heart knows naught of love, with my kiss still on your lips, disdain what I offer, from hatred of the hand to which I owe it. [10]
In other days churches were built and endowed with the spoils of war, and did not disdain the money. [9]
If I appear at the king's ball, which is open to all on the island who are respectable, I am treated with such disdain by the viceroy of the king that all the island is agog. [11]
The weakling never appeared in the Palaestra, which even the great Mark Antony did not disdain to visit. [10]
He felt offended, and without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. [2]
Her eyes glowed, and her nostrils trembled with disdain and indignation. [11]
He stared straight across the square at a figure in heliotrope, whose face was turned to a man in scarlet uniform taller than herself two glowing figures towards whom many other eyes than his own were directed, some curiously, some disdain fully, some sadly. [11]
Byron, Lord: allusion, 16; rank, 281; disdain, 321; uncertain sky, 335; parallelism, 399. [6]

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