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Sentences starting with despise

Despise me, if thou wilt; I know thou lovest me not; but say not that to be great we need the help of strangers! [10]

Sentences ending with despise

The veiled threats which Jethro had made she did not despise. [11]
Had he not the right to make restitution to Kathleen for having given her nothing but himself, whom she had learned to despise? [11]
How well I remember his triumph on that hot, June morning of our graduation from Densmore, a triumph he had apparently achieved without labour, and which he seemed to despise. [9]
Children don't fight regularly with those whom they despise. [10]
Cruel old man, know that I come with claims which even you cannot despise. [5]
She feels there is nothing about her that's clean, that he wouldn't despise. [9]
These things you despise. [11]
You are not content with depriving us of our rights, and our fortunes, with forcing us back to an allegiance we despise. [9]

Short sentences using despise

I despise the very word. [13]
You despise him utterly. [7]
Philip, don't despise the invisible. [4]
He began to despise himself. [10]

More example sentences with the word despise in them

I could tell you something--the history of this day, even--that would make you despise me. [8]
Oh, you fop, you fool, you have ruined my brother, you have ruined my life, and I hate and despise you for a cold-blooded, selfish coward! [11]
Whatever she desires whose fulfilment will not force me to despise myself is granted in advance. [10]
But the woman who gives only one person reason to despise her signs the death-warrant of her own dignity. [10]
To speak plainly, we despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. [5]
Joan of Arc was the only power in France that the English did not despise, the only power in France that they considered formidable. [5]
The "sweeper" belongs to the bottom caste; he is the lowest of the low--all other castes despise him and scorn his office. [5]
I only want to hear that you do not hate me like a foe and despise me like a dog. [10]
He was glad to get away and find a place where he could despise himself in private and try to grow his clipped plumes again. [5]
I do begin to despise thin world! [5]
You will despise this egotism, but I tell you there is a "stern joy" in it..... Pilots did not remain long on one boat, as a rule; just why it is not so easy to understand. [5]
One day, with the usual show of writhing under Lindau's scorn, he said, "Well, I understand that although you despise me now, Lindau--" "I ton't desbise you," the old man broke in, his nostrils swelling and his eyes flaming with excitement, "I bity you. [8]
But it is the great wonder that the woman does not despise him for it. [11]
These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more especially to ladies of your nationality and mine. [5]
And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. [5]
He would have sprung the lever; but he was not so mean as to despise Jean Jacques because he had foregone his revenge. [11]
A kinder, gentler spirit was suddenly awake in him, and he did not despise her quite so much. [11]
I go to speak with the governor of Vaucouleurs as commanded, who will despise me and treat me rudely, and perhaps refuse my prayer at this time. [5]
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention--there is no source that is humble enough for that. [5]
I am not scientific enough to despise it, and have no taste for a winter residence on Mount Washington, where the thermometer cannot be kept comfortable even by boiling. [4]
Is it quite safe to disregard it--to despise it? [7]
Why do we respect some vegetables and despise others, when all of them come to an equal honor or ignominy on the table? [4]
I don't despise reputation, and I should like to be remembered as having said something worth lasting well enough to last. [6]
I spurn your proffered repentance, and despise it! [5]
I do not pretend to say that I despise money, and I like the things that it buys, but the woman I love is more to me than all that you have. [9]
Torture was not practiced; for, says Harrison, our people despise death, yet abhor to be tormented, being of frank and open minds. [4]
Goodson looked him over, like as if he was hunting for a place on him that he could despise the most; then he says, 'So you are the Committee of Inquiry, are you? [5]
But for love of my father, and if I could be certain of saving many from death and misery, I would stay, though I should despise myself and be separated forever from my beloved! [10]
I could hate myself, despise and hate myself for the sake of those dreams since, wretch that I am! [10]
I should despise myself were I to attempt it. [7]
I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself. [7]
How I despise myself for listening to Mr. Allen's tales! [9]
Our certainty also misleads us to constrain others to think as we think, and to despise them and persecute them when they differ from us. [10]
That I had misjudged her made me despise myself. [9]
I want to meet that man whom I despise, so as to give him a chance to kill and laugh at me! [2]
If, by taking me for your only wife, you would outrage the laws of your country, if you would thereby expose yourself to contempt, or even blame, (for who could dare to despise my Bartja! [10]
People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum--but that don't make no difference. [5]
But I don't know, really, that I despise Fulkerson so much for his course this morning as for his gross and fulsome flatteries of Dryfoos last night. [8]
When she had kissed her mother, when she had stood hesitatingly in the darkness of the familiar front bedroom in the presence of unsummoned memories of a home she had believed herself to resent and despise, she had nearly faltered. [9]
The 'cub' pilot is early admonished to despise all perils connected with a pilot's calling, and to prefer any sort of death to the deep dishonor of deserting his post while there is any possibility of his being useful in it. [5]
His fertile mind instantly suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise the adjutant and the minister. [2]
There, despise me if you must, but they would be uttered! [5]
If there's anything I do particularly despise, it's a lynching mob; I've never seen one that had a man in it. [5]
As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. [5]
Instead of holding her head haughtily erect, she had often left the hospital with a sense of shame, and it was long since she had ceased to use the proud privilege of her rank to despise people of lower degree. [10]
Would he despise her for even having dared to name the suspicion which was bringing hither an austere Abbe and officers of the law? [11]
I want to hear you tell it," I added hastily, for I saw that she would despise me if I showed ignorance of Mathurin's story. [11]
That itself would have made me despise you to the end of my life, even if the man had been nothing at all to me. [11]
Why should she hate him, despise him, revolt against him, and yet feel that, as it were by invisible cords, he drew her back to that which she had forsworn, to the Past which dragged at her feet? [11]
Till then he had reproached her in his heart and tried to despise her, but he now felt so sorry for her that there was no room in his soul for reproach. [2]
For it wasn't good for anything; it could not build a shack, it could not improve melons, it could not hurry a fruit crop; it was useless, it was a foolishness and a vanity; he would despise it and say cutting words. [5]
Was it right for him to hold intercourse with a man whom he must despise at heart? [10]
And at the first contact with that greater power which he had taught her so confidently to despise, that strength had broken! [9]
But if his falsehoods are distressing, his innocence and his ignorance are enough to make one burn the book and despise the author. [5]
We shall not despise translations of short stories, but otherwise the matter will all be original, and, of course, it won't all be short stories. [8]
He did not despise the work, for it had to be done. [11]
Let no man despise the first efforts of immature genius. [6]
Conrad, do not despise me, but pity a tortured heart? [5]
Why, he would despise me if I should leave the punishment of the criminals to his tender mercies! [10]
The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede. [5]
Why do they depend so much upon the newspapers, when they all despise the newspapers? [4]
She said there could be no love without respect, and she would only despise a man who could content himself with a thing like her. [5]
I guess he's come to despise a great many things that he once respected, and that intellectual ability is among them--what we call intellectual ability. [8]
Love in her cold grave lies, But she will wake again; With trembling feet will rise, Will call this love in vain, That she doth now despise Ah, love shall wake again! [11]
You have no blame for the lucky few who naturally decline to vacate the pleasant nest they were born into, you only despise the all-powerful and stupid mass of the nation for allowing the nest to exist. [5]
But I shall be perfectly dry in my rain-coat,--no matter how much you may despise it. [9]
If you hear any one say such things, you can tell them for me that I despise them. [4]
She loved animals, and she saw no reason to despise a stalwart youth. [11]
You all hate and despise me! [2]
Even when an action is opposed to no special instinct, merely to know that our friends and equals despise us for it is enough to cause great misery. [1]
It was only a question of moments, and then,--and then she would in truth despise him! [9]
Man, "know thyself "--and then thou wilt despise thyself, to a dead moral certainty. [5]

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