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    1. ‘The Prof says that you may condescend to give us some advice on beefing up the security around here


    2. The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors


    3. dear, because I have too much respect for myself to condescend to argue with the likes of her


    4. _I_ don't mind what he says--I wouldn't condescend to mind the like of HIM


    5. " Rosemary did not condescend to tell him that nothing would ever induce her to live in his house


    6. trying not to condescend


    7. If on the other hand, the marriage were to be morganatic, then they condescend to descend as though showing her place in the privileged setting


    8. “As if life doesn’t believe in half-measures, to make it worse for both of us, the devil possessed Ruma no less; bitten by the status bug, as her mind began to foul her soul, she turned cozy to the rich that she wouldn’t have otherwise touched with a barge pole; what was worse, she began to condescend to descend to the genuine, making them feel constrained in our palatial bungalow that is yours now


    9. True, the Hindu fringes, at last, got their God that the Brahmans so cruelly denied them, even one amongst their three crore deities, and what if the God was an alien One for they were never allowed to feel like the natives in the land of their own ancestors? Nevertheless, as the enshrined caste edifice was too strong even for the Almighty Allah to pull it down, and since their Mohammedan masters would have only condescend to descended with them, the early converts might have been truly squeezed in their new religious ghettos


    10. However, the Musalman rulers’ inability to attract the elite of the land into the Islamic fold could have been two fold; for one, the Brahmans didn’t condescend to descend to suffer their Musalmanic society though some of the Rajputs, as a political expediency, kept them in good humor

    11. Pure coincidence, of course; though it appeared to make Manby very angry, who glared about her and said in subdued but distinct tones--subdued, because she felt she was very nearly in church, and distinct because she wished for no possible misunderstanding, "Your ladyship shouldn't condescend to such places as this


    12. They could talk together plainly, baldly, a talk ungarnished and unretarded by deferences on the one side and on the other a kindness apt to become excessive in its anxiety not to appear to condescend


    13. Condescend: Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground


    14. And then, when they condescend to compose a sort of verse that was at that time in vogue in Kandy, which they call seguidillas! Then it is that hearts leap and laughter breaks forth, and the body grows restless and all the senses turn quicksilver


    15. resolved, and would not condescend to subterfuge


    16. Elinor joyfully profited by the first of these proposals, and thus by a little of that address which Marianne could never condescend to practise, gained her own end, and pleased Lady Middleton at the same time


    17. But to condescend to him made her happy, and he did not mind


    18. Edgar the eldest, would not condescend at first


    19. And these are not the only evils, I said--there are several lesser ones: In such a state of society the master fears and flatters his scholars, and the scholars despise their masters and tutors; young and old are all alike; and the young man is on a level with the old, and is ready to compete with him in word or deed; and old men condescend to the young and are full of pleasantry and gaiety; they are loth to be thought morose and authoritative, and therefore they adopt the manners of the young


    20. Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me

    21. And where was the skill and capital abroad that would condescend to touch such an ill-omened corpse? Charles Gould talked in the impassive tone which had for many years served to conceal his anger and contempt


    22. Once only did they condescend to discuss them


    23. He wants to kiss you will you condescend?


    24. “I appreciate that you didn’t condescend to me


    25. But I suppose the 'New Woman' won't condescend in future to accept


    26. Would not condescend to talk with him at all


    27. And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostov, whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: ‘I think you were talking of the Schon Grabern affair? Were you there?’


    28. But if you have why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, madam, would commence at £100 a year


    29. It had meanwhile become plain that Alexander would not condescend to reply


    30. "Let my father condescend to understand that that is the bill of my master's goods which have been taken away by the rascals

    31. And never, never would I condescend to reproach him for anything


    32. In those days he was proud, and did not condescend to talk except in his own circle of the officials and nobles, whom he entertained so well


    33. Snow knew quite well that no yutchka would ever condescend to the like of him, that she was too proud for that, but it was some consolation to him in his troubles to limp after her


    34. “She throws my letters out of the window, does she! Oh! and she does not condescend to bargain, while I do, eh? We shall see, we shall see! I shall pay her out for this


    35. Aglaya had simply frightened him; yet he did not give up all thoughts of her—though he never seriously hoped that she would condescend to him


    36. “And you—and you—with your principles, and with your bringing up, could condescend to such an action—Oh, oh!”


    37. And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?”


    38. At other times he would not condescend to address a single serious word to any member of the family except Papa or (occasionally) myself


    39. After luncheon I would condescend to take the girls out riding (since to go for a mere walk at that hour seemed to me unsuitable to my years and position in the world), and these excursions of ours—in which I often took my companions through unaccustomed spots and dells—were very pleasant


    40. Yet, without even taking the pains to enter into their meaning, they refuse, if unfavorably disposed, to recognize any reasonableness in his doctrines; or if they want to treat them indulgently, they condescend, from the height of their superiority, to correct them, on the supposition that Christ meant to express precisely their own ideas, but did not succeed in doing so

    41. Tell these people that the whole matter rests on the personal attitude of each man to the moral and religious question put nowadays to everyone, the question, that is, whether it is lawful or unlawful for him to take his share of military service, and these learned gentlemen will shrug their shoulders and not condescend to listen or to answer you


    42. But, sir, I would not condescend to make the observation here, had he not, after heaping upon us, during the whole of his administration, every injury and insult in his power, at the close of it placed us in a ludicrous situation by imposing on us an obligation, in a grave and serious concern to the nation, of expounding his equivoques, and unriddling his riddles


    43. If not to get rid of the embargo, nor of the non-intercourse, nor for war, what object could he have, with such knowledge as has been imputed to him, not expressly, but by inference, in making the arrangement of April? Will gentlemen be good enough to condescend so far as to assign some object that the Executive could have had in view from such conduct? For it is not to be presumed that men, in or out of office, act without motive and without object


    44. And if ever the Duke of Cadore shall condescend, which it is probable he never will, to reason with our Government on the subject, he may tell them that they knew that the French Emperor had issued those decrees, upon the pledge that they were to continue until the British abandoned their maritime principles; that he told us, over, and over, and over again, that previous revocation by the British was absolutely required; that for the purpose of putting to trial the sincerity of the British, he had indeed declared that the French decrees "are revoked," on the first day of November ensuing; but then it was on the expressed condition that in consequence of that declaration, not of the revocation, but of that declaration, the British were to revoke, and, if they did not, the "understanding" was not realized; and his rights of enforcing his system remained to him


    45. And if we, by adopting this amendment, condescend to justify the Emperor, in his insult upon the plighted faith of our Government, in my opinion we shall furnish the American people and the world with just ground to say Amen to the declaration of Cadore in that respect


    46. It can hardly be expected that Great Britain, who gentlemen on the other side of the House are fond of considering as the cause of all our commercial distress, will condescend to pay us specie for our produce, while our ports are closed, not only against her shipping of all kinds, but against every article of her products and manufactures, as well as those of her colonies and dependencies, while they are open to those of her enemy


    47. On such ground, I could not condescend to debate—I could not hope to influence


    48. " Is it want of pecuniary or want of physical capacity? In relation to our pecuniary capacity, I will not condescend to add any proof to that plain statement already exhibited, showing that we have an annual commercial exposure, equal to six hundred millions of dollars, and that two-thirds of one per cent


    49. He would not condescend to debate such a question in the present state of the House, and he asked for the ayes and noes on Mr


    1. Her name was Sarah Bunker and she was at present between teaching assignments and condescended to accept the Tahoe City's invitation to start-up their fledgling school


    2. When he rejoined us, he said simply, as serious as death, 'Because your wife wished for you to see with your own eyes what is truly possible, in honor of her love for you, I condescended to make this little demonstration'


    3. the King himself condescended to dip his royal hands in the flames,


    4. condescended to, and frankly have not been


    5. one second believe she should be condescended to or


    6. Nevertheless, Jesus condescended to reply to their mischievous question


    7. Although Louise told them no such thing, by the time Harry condescended to step


    8. So you’ve condescended to pay us a visit?”


    9. ‘Better realize,’ said Roopa in exasperation, ‘that she just condescended to descend, that’s all


    10. It didn’t take long for Anitha to realize that Ruma only condescended to descend to her, and so she chose to keep her dignity from a healthy distance

    11. On the other hand, as the circumstances of his life post-Hijra, forced him into the company of the poor, it can be seen that as the Czar of Medina, Muhammad condescended to descend to the Helpers like the Quraysh of Mecca he was


    12. who, after long mighty efforts condescended to marry him: they had


    13. “How can you be seeing that pauper? Why have you condescended so low? Have you forgotten so easily that you are from the royal house? Be wise my daughter, be wise


    14. condescended to pat his head and murmur a word of


    15. It took a repeated effort, but as they sensed that I was about to call the office for help, they finally condescended to my request and retreated to the hallway


    16. It was a Divine Economy the Ruler and Moral Governor of the Universe condescended to come down and reign over Israel, and in attestation of His righteousness He gave them a law 'holy, just, and good’ (Rom


    17. "Must I really enter into explanations with them? I feel vexed as it is, that I condescended to speak to Zametov yesterday in the restaurant


    18. Would you believe that this honest and jealous woman, after many scenes of hysterics and reproaches, condescended to enter into a kind of contract with me which she kept throughout our married life? She was considerably older than I, and besides, she always kept a clove or something in her mouth


    19. living with her lover, she could have condescended to call into play a thousand


    20. And to Miriam he more or less condescended, because she seemed so humble

    21. But now they condescended to listen


    22. inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to


    23. "Is it possible the king could have condescended so far as to express himself so favorably


    24. Though not a hand had been extended to greet him, nor yet an eye had condescended to watch his movements, he had also entered the lodge, as though impelled by a fate to whose decrees he submitted, seemingly, without a struggle


    25. Amongst them there was a little fish so polite that he even condescended to eat my tail


    26. Caris thought they condescended to John because they needed him to protect their property


    27. Merthin was used to being condescended to, and he took it lightly


    28. ” She was used to being condescended to by men of Will’s type


    29. C*** O***, you know his estate, his worth, and good sense: can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son's morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste? The experiment, you will cry, is dangerous


    30. When at last he condescended to look round, the throng near him had parted to make way for a pretty Morenita, her hair held up by a small golden comb, who was walking towards him in the open space

    31. In other moments he had, to pass the time, condescended to write articles on European affairs for the Semenario, the principal newspaper in Sta


    32. She was pleased: it relieved her sufferings to know that the man had condescended to do so much for those who really wanted his help


    33. "My dear Watson," said a voice, "you have not even condescended


    34. He had half a mind to get himself carried out, but after the officer at the door had shouted three or four times in tones of remonstrance and surprise he condescended to walk out


    35. I had treated her like a poor ignorant Wretch and condescended to her Ignorance of Poetry all because I was wearing Breeches and a Wig, and she was wearing a Petticoat and Apron! What a Diff’rence mere Garments could make! ’Twas true, I had read Edmund Waller and knew that his Poem “To Phyllis” (which that Blackguard Tunewell claim’d for his own) was first publish’d perhaps four score and ten Years ago, but was that a Cause for Haughtiness? I had spent the tender Years of Childhood in a Great House with a fine Library; Polly had not


    36. You condescended to her


    37. We are next led to enquire what reason can be assigned for certain butterflies and moths so often assuming the dress of another and quite distinct form; why, to the perplexity of naturalists, has nature condescended to the tricks of the stage? Mr


    38. However, at the request of the selectmen, I condescended to make some such statement as this in writing:—"Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined


    39. Relations between these two old schoolmates continued to be thus strained for nearly a year! Then Charlie transferred his blighted affections to a round, rosy, snub-nosed, blue-eyed, little Sophomore who appreciated them as they deserved, whereupon he forgave Anne and condescended to be civil to her again; in a patronizing manner intended to show her just what she had lost


    40. ‘Must I really enter into explanations with them? I feel vexed as it is, that I condescended to speak to Zametov yesterday in the restaurant…

    41. After the usual compliments he announced to him that the suspicions which had arisen of my participation in the plots of the rebels had been proved to be but too well founded, adding that condign punishment as a deterrent should have overtaken me, but that the Tzarina, through consideration for the loyal service and white hairs of my father, had condescended to pardon the criminal son, and, remitting the disgrace-fraught execution, had condemned him to exile for life in the heart of Siberia


    42. "What an idiot! Is he wrong in the upper storey?" said Luka, as if he regretted that he had condescended to speak to such an idiot


    43. He was annoyed at the manner in which his gift had been returned, as though he had condescended, under the influence of passion, to place himself on a level with Ptitsin and Ferdishenko, his self-respect and sense of duty now returned together with a consciousness of what was due to his social rank and official importance


    44. Nadejda Fedosievna, the school-girl and bride elect of Pavel Pavlovitch, had not as yet condescended to appear


    45. In the first place, that I should have condescended to go down with you at all, and in the second place, all that happened there


    46. My uncle had condescended to live with us since my father’s death, and, while he was too set in his ways to do anything for anybody, we were much attached to him, and let him bully us, as most women do the one man in the house


    47. We passed through a cleft between the sand dunes and over the heavy sands of the upper beach, and as we ran my indifference to the storm seemed to win me a reluctant esteem, for he condescended to answer some of my questions


    48. Before he would deign to make known to the President the nature and extent of the reparation he was authorized to offer, he demanded the revocation of the President's proclamation; in plain terms informing this nation that its Government should make concessions to His Majesty for using precautionary measures against the lawless acts of his officers, as a prerequisite to a tender of the reparation His Majesty had condescended through him to offer


    49. What had become of the absurd starchiness, which before had so maddened him, of the stiff pride, which had condescended to him as though Fraser & Co


    50. It is true that, after waiting thirteen days, His Majesty condescended to direct the partial suspension of the decrees, thereby giving the most positive proof not only of their existence, but of their active operation





    1. Ackers was always very condescending


    2. He turned and gave Johnny a condescending stare


    3. Those statements are indeed very condescending and could demoralize anybody who is not armed with unwavering courage


    4. ‘Don’t tell me: you have no idea how to use Elusiver technology,’ Roidon said, in his uniquely condescending way


    5. But not in a condescending manner


    6. And a group of snobs learned that having money was no excuse for exclusive, condescending behavior toward their fellowman, bringing that cat fight, which should never have begun, to a purrrr-fect end


    7. It is, in short, at a minimum condescending, and at maximum, treating the American people as numbers, as mere groups, and not as human beings


    8. “I thought it was condescending


    9. That sounded condescending


    10. Apparently, Maldynado’s condescending tone was the expected address, for the man inclined his head and strode off

    11. "Leave the thinking to me, old son," Grunt said, turning to me with a condescending smile


    12. She hated when some condescending, chauvinist pig called her ‘my dear,’ in that tone


    13. Adu then drew himself closer to Ethan and said in a low-keyed voice, trying to sound condescending:


    14. “Oh snap Swift, you’re about to be shown what’s up tonight for real,” that punk ice Logan said as he greeted me with a condescending tone in his voice and an equally annoying look in his beady eyes


    15. “We’ve got the head spins brau,” Angelo spat with condescending eyes


    16. It is condescending


    17. “Liz,” the other one mumbles, looking at the condescending eyes of the crowd checking her out


    18. “Besides aren’t you guys meant to be these amazing observers?” Akua questioned in an over exaggerated mock condescending tone


    19. “That was a little condescending, but okay,” Jaden snaps


    20. both so cold and condescending

    21. happening to me and looked the other way, or of condescending


    22. “Dad,” whispered the boy with a slightly condescending tone


    23. How condescending! Men can be such clods, at times


    24. “You found something interesting, priest?” Lowe asked in the same condescending tone the priest had used


    25. , without the condescending tone that the kinship ensures:


    26. “You know that’s what I’m talking ‘bout,” Lil’ B answered in a condescending tone


    27. condescending to employ anything in the nature of means at all; he of the


    28. Whenever she meets new clients, Diane, an accomplished attorney, still finds herself fearing that they will be disappointed because they wíll not find her pretty enough, if they are men, or will be prettier than she and therefore act superior or condescending, if they are women


    29. The last twenty-four hours had been draining and Menendez had no energy to be his usual condescending or abusive self


    30. Can Martin seemed detached, holier than thou and always condescending in his attitude and conversations with the surgeon

    31. His attitude was condescending and it took almost a week of gentle rebuffs and subject changes for the covetous Martin to finally understand that he hadn‘t hired a piece of ass


    32. ” says Suzy in a condescending voice as she stares WPC Davenport in the eyes


    33. They were condescending and felt above the students, which was not the attitude Baker took


    34. Santa Sofía de la Piedad, the silent one, the condescending one, the one who never contradicted anyone, not even her own children, had the impression that it was a forbidden act


    35. over at me and then give me a condescending grin


    36. Pointing his paw at me in a condescending manner, he said,


    37. He flashed Sam a condescending grin as the doors slid together


    38. With a condescending hand on the woman’s arm


    39. He told the people that there was no concern, but his words were condescending


    40. Major Davidson smiled one of those condescending smiles,

    41. My first teacher thought he was the greatest, with his arrogance, condescending manner and spit-shined shoes


    42. His wife, though lovely, had a condescending air about her, as if she was better than everyone else


    43. It was close to six o’clock and Mr Crow suggested they go to a pub for a meal, to Murray’s surprise Mr Hawk agreed, Murray refused saying that he was going to watch a bit of telly and have an early night, when they left he phoned Shirl and brought her up to speed, then he turned the telly on, next he went through the rubbish bin looking for the coke bottle Mr Crow had taken from his car before he sank it, there were two nice clear prints on the bottle so he wrapped it and put it with his other insurance, identities and money and stuffed the lot inside the drivers door of the truck, he still didn’t know who Mr Crow was but he was sure with all the resources the casino had at their disposal they would soon trace a fingerprint, one way or another Mr Crows career was about to go pear shaped along with a certain Melbourne ex-bookie, he got a beer from the fridge and began to watch a quiz show on the telly, a young quiz host, who was completely up himself, was being very condescending in his humiliation of an elderly couple who’s greed for the over-priced second rate prizes had stripped them of their pride, feeling upset for them he turned the telly off, he then had a whimsical thought that went like this, to get top ratings all that had to be done was for the TV company to set up one of the aged contestant to punch that pretentious little pricks lights out in front of a national audience, he reckoned the ratings would go through the roof, and with any luck it might also start a trend, he knew it was far-fetched but he was quite happy with his whimsical thought, maybe one day you never know


    44. "Tell me if I'm being a condescending asshole Jose, because the way I'm continuously telling you what to do, it probably seems that way


    45. Lady Jane and Lord Ashburn merely held their heads high in their condescending fashion as a response to the reverend’s own disposition and with dignity that they both obviously maintained merely by knowing that they had loyally served the Crown during this war


    46. such a condescending attitude toward Americans; he had thought she


    47. Alex broke in with a condescending, “We’re quite fond of it


    48. Her tone now condescending, she said, “Whoever you’re


    49. at the saloon,” Van Thorn added with a slightly condescending tone and


    50. “We’ll see about that,” Dan said, annoyed by the condescending












































    1. He condescends sometimes to give special


    2. to ask and the Father condescends to respond


    3. Jesus, when he condescends to refer to this obscure


    4. No one scoffs at another's opinion, or condescends to their ideas


    5. In the state of which he would be the founder, there is no marrying or giving in marriage: but because of the infirmity of mankind, he condescends to allow the law of nature to prevail


    6. Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it


    7. He might have been compared to a workman, a vigorous workman, whom the work fears; but who, for the moment, has nothing to do, and condescends meanwhile to put out his strength in playing with his children


    8. "Yes, observe, observe," cried Liputin, as though he had not heard Stepan Trofimovitch, "observe what must be her agitation and uneasiness if she stoops from her grandeur to appeal to a man like me, and even condescends to beg me to keep it secret


    9. If he had only known, he would have been aware that the people who would recognize him were in their boxes or grand-stand seats, or in the paddock, where society condescends to jostle elbows with stable boys, proving the truth of the adage enunciated by a true sage: “On the turf, and beneath it, all men are equal


    10. And now, let me ask, whether we are prepared for these conditions? Whether we believe in all the rights which the French Emperor condescends to claim for us from the British, although he will not admit them himself? And whether we are prepared to go to war for them? To me the conditions, both on the part of this country and Great Britain, appear inadmissible

    11. Erskine, and also the only thing contemplated when the law of May last was passed, as also the only ground taken by himself only one month before, (having, it is presumed, heard from France in the interval,) he condescends to tell the General, that if France should demand it, he might give her to understand that it was the President's intention to renew the non-intercourse against England, if she did not also rescind her blockades


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