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    1. " I counter Seth's disdain with, yet again, more of my own, "And you know just as well as I do where he went and there's nothing we can do about it


    2. They cawed and wheeled, watching the fire and the thunder rise with a mixture of fear and utter disdain


    3. Ish glanced at me with disdain as if I had shot down his mission to Mars


    4. the passing citizens a look of disdain, until he realised that


    5. He might be rigid in his disdain for women’s minds, and insensate to her personal disasters, but they shared a deep, sustaining love for poetry


    6. He snorts his disdain


    7. Such a person, too, though he cannot aspire at being a proprietor, will often disdain to be a farmer


    8. “Why does he care? He’s not even one of the king’s court officials yet,” Arioch said with disdain


    9. And the men who fought alongside him appreciated that he shared their disdain


    10. “You"re saying you have been chosen?” He interrupted with a sneer, his lip curled in disdain

    11. The disdain was replaced by anger and hurt


    12. crew regally and with disdain


    13. Flesh’ailer’s pet was showing disdain at the flickering flame of the fire of man


    14. "Goosey!" cried Ernest, in great disdain


    15. Standing taller Slikit cast Soffen a look full of disdain


    16. As the weeks went by it became amusing to watch Dena’s disdain at her gained weight


    17. "And me? Am I to be included in this generous offer?" Thesa's disdain suggested that he already knew the answer


    18. I grinned, imagining the look of snooty disdain on her face


    19. She felt a kind of caution, a kind of disdain for them, for they didn’t behave properly


    20. He looked at Adele’s body with a degree of disdain that could only be comparable to that shown towards a pile of dog poo, and said with a gloating roar:

    21. He said all this with no trace of humour, just a real disdain in his voice


    22. Were they angry? Or even worse, did they not care, gazes full of disdain


    23. People typically look back on past levels of knowledge and power with disdain and we tend to think of ourselves as vastly superior to primitive man, or people even a hundred or two hundred years ago


    24. “But don’t be surprised if she is acting all nuts,” Bob said with disdain


    25. He looked at me with disdain


    26. The CMMs neglect to highlight this as major news was a testament to their arrogance and disdain for regular Americans, who would be


    27. Peter’s mouth is puckered with disdain


    28. The strange part was that, while she despised Charlie for a coward, it never occurred to her to disdain Walter


    29. George, purring his disdain of foolish humankind, who did not know that a soft cushion was the only thing that really mattered,


    30. Inside his mind he was looking at them with disgust, disdain and these things Chloe had given eternal life to

    31. They were off in the space of thirty minutes, and he held the iron chains up with disdain


    32. He stepped out into the street and surveyed the crowd with a look of high disdain


    33. onto the conveyor, and with French/Canadian disdain, he ignored me


    34. It was rather a manifestation of personal enjoyment for being able to express publicly my disdain for a president that, not only did soil and dishonor the Oval Office of the American people, but also laughed at and derided the judicial system, which as president he should defend and elevate


    35. Covers with disdain, of your readers the desire to be pleased,


    36. His mother snatched it from his hands and read them with disdain


    37. They ceased laughing, but expressed sympathy for the victimized Bulgarian people and disdain for their oppressive rulers


    38. Surely, when the Israelites saw this upstart go out to meet Goliath, and then defeat the giant, what disdain, perhaps even contempt, they must have felt towards Saul


    39. The disdain that comes with the


    40. Disdain dripped out of every word

    41. disdain I had for myself was completely consuming


    42. is rare when I see his face show me his utter contempt and disdain


    43. ” Responding to the continued look of disdain with a posture similar to that of the one whom he addressed, Moshe continued


    44. 30’s, shot a look of disdain at the shorter man as they


    45. “Let us do it now and get it over with!” Her face revealed the disdain she could not hide at the prospect of looking one more time at the source of her agony and shame


    46. ” Responding to the continued look of disdain with a posture similar to that of the


    47. with!” Her face revealed the disdain she could not hide at the prospect of looking one more


    48. reach Pharaoh of my plans for this campaign” sniffing his disdain at the thought, he pressed


    49. In trying to find the origin of the disdain for interest, I learned in church that approximately two thousand years ago Jesus is reported to have thrown the


    50. The disdain for “exorbitant interest” was probably significant in the USSR, which would be consistent with their communist (socialist) economic structure














































    1. The French government could and durst use force, and therefore disdained to use management and persuasion


    2. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance


    3. 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair


    4. 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my


    5. jobs they often end up with are the 3D (dirty, Dangerous, and Disdained) and


    6. The bowman's chances he also disdained


    7. life, and they are rejected and disdained by all those who surround them; and


    8. sat on the top deck in the rearmost seat, disdained to see, or be seen,


    9. This foolish ignorant one did not magnify his Provider when He the Almighty, ordered him to prostrate himself to our Master Adam (cpth): "…except the devil who rejected and disdained


    10. “But when he saw it moving as if it was (possessed by) a jinn, he turned back in retreat, and did not look back”: but when he saw it moving by itself, he thought that it was one of the deeds of the jinn, so he was afraid because his clean, pure spirit disdained all but the most perfect of virtuous deeds

    11. She had entertained, and disdained, many proposals before, but usually from distant strangers who had sent an envoy to her father


    12. He disdained such yokel print and sat looking through the


    13. Emma's enthusiasm, which his bourgeois good sense disdained, seemed to him in his heart of hearts charming, since it was lavished on him


    14. "Oh," she replied bitterly, "they are poor charms since you disdained them


    15. disdained to conceal, that, when he appealed to her reason, he felt that he had


    16. grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdained to


    17. Magua still disdained to reply, continuing his efforts to disperse the crowd


    18. One little knot of Hurons, however, had disdained to seek a cover, and were retiring, like lions at bay, slowly and sullenly up the acclivity which Chingachgook and his band had just deserted, to mingle more closely in the fray


    19. By the side of Andrea was stationed the lawyer who was to conduct his defence, and who had been appointed by the court, for Andrea disdained to pay any attention to those details, to which he appeared to attach no importance


    20. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him; Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation! Shall I entertain thee against my sovereign Lord? How then shall I look him in the face at his coming? Should I now be ashamed of his ways and servants, how can I expect the blessing? [Mark 8:38] But, indeed, this Shame was a bold villain; I could scarce shake him out of my company; yea, he would be haunting of me, and continually whispering me in the ear, with some one or other of the infirmities that attend religion; but at last I told him it was but in vain to attempt further in this business; for those things that he disdained, in those did I see most glory; and so at last I got past this importunate one

    21. After then wearying and fatiguing myself with grasping shadows, whilst that most sensible part of me disdained to content itself with less than realities, the strong yearnings, the urgent struggles of nature towards the melting relief, and the extreme self-agitations I had used to come at it, had wearied and thrown me into a kind of unquiet sleep: for, if I tossed and threw about my limbs in proportion to the distraction of my dreams, as I had reason to believe I did, a bystander could not have helped seeing all for love


    22. ‘Tell me, isn’t it humiliating to think that a man has disdained your love, that he hasn’t cared for


    23. Emma's enthusiasm, which his bourgeois good sense disdained, seemed to him in his heart of hearts charming,


    24. As for the disdained and affronted wives, what culinary battlements did they rear up? What counterattacks ensued? And if small battles, or skirmishes, were fought, did victories follow?


    25. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been


    26. Many knights would’ve disdained it as a peasant’s weapon; Falk was clearly a man who cared most for results


    27. The older ones, those ten years and more, disdained the affair and marched scornfully off on hikes or played a more dignified version of hide-and-seek on their own


    28. I love you better now, when I can really be useful to you, than I did in your state of proud independence, when you disdained every part but that of the giver and protector


    29. Here was a change, and here were claims which could not but operate! She might have disdained him in all the dignity of angry virtue, in the grounds of Sotherton, or the theatre at Mansfield Park; but he approached her now with rights that demanded different treatment


    30. Then came in Kariado, a rich count from a far-off island, that had fared to Tintagel to offer the Queen his service, and had spoken of love to her, though she disdained his folly

    31. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen


    32. "Tell me, isn't it humiliating to think that a man has disdained your love, that he hasn't cared for it?… "


    33. He felt that he ought to have disdained that despicable wretch, Fyodor Pavlovitch, too much to have been upset by him in Father Zossima's cell, and so to have forgotten himself


    34. I saw her eyes taking my measure one evening at the battery commander's, but I didn't go up to her, as though I disdained her acquaintance


    35. He would not turn to Nikolay Parfenovitch, as though he disdained to speak to him


    36. I can't find another word to describe it, because he is not a man who falls into disillusionment, and he disdained to be occupied with work at that time


    37. Yes, in spite of the fact that she is no longer in her early youth, he has not disdained her


    38. The General's disdained


    39. Then he turned up the collar of his jacket—he disdained a greatcoat—and pulled his cap over his eyes, and used strong language to relieve his feelings


    40. Jacqueline disdained him; he recognized that fact, but it caused him no more genuine annoyance than the breaking upon him, when he entered the surf that was now rolling in before him, of the waves which his manhood delighted to buffet and overcome

    41. What has become of that high Federal spirit which disdained to buy Louisiana? Where is it when Canada is mentioned? The Federalism which desired to conquer Louisiana and keep it by force of arms, is changed when Canada is the question


    1. Hurt pride led to sardonic comments on her associates, while she defended them by coldly disdaining his opinions


    2. I tended to run with the traditional side, disdaining the illogical


    3. Furthermore, they ask disdaining: “What is this for? What is that for?”, and according to their destroying and blind whims they think ill of their Provider and wonder: “He Has overwhelmed!! Has He really overwhelmed us?!”


    4. It was all paid for in gold dust, and while the barman weighed it out, the customer would ostentatiously turn his back, disdaining to oversee the transaction; showing equal trust, trading-stations would often provide unlimited and unsecured loans to any prospector, and there are no known cases of anybody not getting their money back


    5. Instead he began acting like a macho medieval general in the front line; disdaining bullets and bombs, as if he was invulnerable: not even having the decency to be concerned for the safety of his pregnant wife at his side who was at his side


    6. He not only acted as if he was a figurehead monarch: he lived like one; he lived like Wilhelm had lived when he was the figurehead of the German state… He lived like the Russian Tsar had once lived, disdaining the everyday running of his govt as beneath him


    7. He found him, standing with one arm cast about the protecting post, and breathing thick and hard, after his exertions, but disdaining to permit a single sign of suffering to escape


    8. Madame Danglars had until then, perhaps, hoped for something; but when she saw the careless bow of Debray, and the glance by which it was accompanied, together with his significant silence, she raised her head, and without passion or violence or even hesitation, ran down-stairs, disdaining to address a last farewell to one who could thus part from her


    9. "I've decided openness is better between us," Porfiry Petrovitch went on, turning his head away and dropping his eyes, as though unwilling to disconcert his former victim and as though disdaining his former wiles


    10. The traditionalists did not appreciate the irony of capitalists and marines embracing a practice with a history of disdaining violence and accumulation of wealth

    11. old world, comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne disdaining the companions of Napoleon


    12. His mind, now disengaged from the cares which had pressed on him at first, was at leisure to find the Grants and their young inmates really worth visiting; and though infinitely above scheming or contriving for any the most advantageous matrimonial establishment that could be among the apparent possibilities of any one most dear to him, and disdaining even as a littleness the being quick-sighted on such points, he could not avoid perceiving, in a grand and careless way, that Mr


    13. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation that, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way


    1. Camus disdains such answers because he cannot know them with certainty


    2. For though management and persuasion are always the easiest and safest instruments of government as force and violence are the worst and the most dangerous; yet such, it seems, is the natural insolence of man, that he almost always disdains to use the good instrument, except when he cannot or dare not use the bad one


    3. ' My Father disdains pride, loathes hypocrisy, and abhors iniquity


    4. If the deceived victim draws back at this point, and disdains the act of adultery, the companion will be driven away


    5. If poorer in other ways she departed at least richer in philosophy, without a trace of jealousy of what he might do next, not minding what he did if only she did not have to do it, too, and he, until such time as he again was lured from paths of austerity and work by the hope that he had found the one predestined mate, enjoyed the condition in which he was altogether happiest, the freedom of spirit that disdains love


    6. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism


    7. While her husband disdains her, she has the satisfaction of ruining her husband


    8. "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered


    9. What, sir! Shall it be intimated; shall it for a moment be admitted, that the noblest and purest band of patriots this or any other country ever could boast, were engaged in machinating means for the dismemberment of the territories of a power to which they had pledged friendship, and the observance of all the obligations which grow out of a strict and perfect amity? The honor of our country forbids and disdains such a suggestion


    10. This is the work of nature—a generous nature, that disdains tame submission to wrongs

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