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Sentences starting with despised

Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots. [5]

Sentences ending with despised

He was faint with lonely vigils; he was visibly carrying the load of the poor and the despised. [4]
I think it was because a nobleman with so great a title should be so cordially hated and despised. [9]
Again, when the trance left him, he was an addition to our little party not to be despised. [9]
And so was the name of Robert Hardy--Robert Hardy, the stranger, the despised. [5]
We've got to sit down together and educate ourselves, who are now employers and employees, get hold of all the facts, the statistics,--and all the elements, the human nature side of it, from the theorists, the students, whom we've despised. [9]
If she were, she would not be Liberty: if she were, she would not be worshipped of men, but despised. [9]
Many in the settlement showed Dugard how much he was despised. [11]
I was the pride of the mountains and the Great Plains; now I am a scarecrow and despised. [5]
A militia-colonel standing on his sentiments is not to be despised. [6]
The great master of state-craft could more easily have borne to hear himself condemned as a ruler than to see his work of art despised. [10]

Sentences containing despised two or more times

It was evident that Kutuzov despised cleverness and learning and even the patriotic feeling shown by Denisov, but despised them not because of his own intellect, feelings, or knowledge--he did not try to display any of these--but because of something else. [2]

More example sentences with the word despised in them

Need I tell you that I am a lost and despised man if I am found guilty of this act of the maddest folly by the judges of my own house? [10]
I always thought you despised me," said Carnac. [11]
For now this woman who despised him, hated him, he desired more than all else in the world. [11]
The tailor came with his goose and a pair of shears; but he despised me, too, and departed for the South that night. [5]
These were they who resented deeply Fleda's defection, and truthfully felt that she had passed out of their circle for ever; that she despised them, and looked down on them from another sphere. [11]
Grape-skins, that is what I am--but you need not look at me so pitifully; I was grapes once, and poor and despised as I am now, no one can take from me what I have had and have been. [10]
Behind that door were two people who despised his memory, who conspired to forget his very name. [11]
The ousted owners were despised by the white interlopers, and this opinion was not hidden under a bushel. [5]
All these things were as much a compliment to her as though she were not a despised Huguenot, an exiled lady of no fortune. [11]
Because Mavick was weak--and she had always secretly despised him for yielding to her--weak as compared with her own indomitable spirit, she generalized wildly. [4]
What the general was saying was even more clever and to the point, but it was evident that Kutuzov despised knowledge and cleverness, and knew of something else that would decide the matter--something independent of cleverness and knowledge. [2]
I knew the warrior's secret now; I knew the hollow vanity of his rusty trumpery, and despised his asinine complacency. [5]
Poor Boges will very gladly play the go-between; the poor despised Boges wishes you so well--the humble Boges will be so sorry when he sees the proud palm-tree from Sais cut down. [10]
Suddenly it occurred to her with a shock that she was doing exactly what she had despised Lise for doing, and leaving the mirror she hurried her toilet, put out the light, and got into bed. [9]
Was he now to commit the deed for which he had despised and killed others? [10]
Petrarca was not to be despised as a scholar or a poet, but he was one of the same sort. [6]
For a long time he could not reconcile himself to the idea that he was one of those same retired Moscow gentlemen-in-waiting he had so despised seven years before. [2]
There are some things of mine that you will keep for your son, if you forgive me dead whom you despised living. [11]
The judge despised them with all his soul, but it is human nature not to wish to sit in a hall or a theatre that is three-quarters empty. [9]
She, too, despised the soldiers, fervently believed they had sold themselves to the oppressors of mankind. [9]
Thomas Tilman Lacey, the despised waster of his patrimony and of other people's treasure, is now, O son of the fig-flower, richer than Kaid Pasha and all his eunuchs. [11]
That he despised the conventionalities of society, and was a sloven in his toilet, was firmly believed; and the belief endeared him to the hearts of the people. [4]
She heard again that voice, she saw again that inspired face; but the impression most indelible with her was the prostrate form, the pallid countenance, the helplessness of this man whose will had before been strong enough to compel the obedience of his despised body. [4]
And the fact that he despised knowledge, yet possessed it, lent him glamour. [9]
He boasted openly that day that none of the despised 'Burschenschaft' dare stand before him. [9]
Had Lali been subservient simply, an entirely passive, unintelligent creature, she would probably have tyrannised over her in a soft, persistent fashion, and despised her generally. [11]
I was prodigiously struck by the change in him, and pitied him then near as much as I had once despised him. [9]
I despised the sordid and commonplace things they talked about. [5]
She had not singular scruples regarding men, for she despised most of them. [11]
The caprices of sick people were never to be despised, least of all of such persons as Elsie, when rendered irritable and exacting by pain and weakness. [6]
She felt that Rudyard despised her now a thousand times more than ever he had hinted at in that last stifling scene in Park Lane; and her spirit rebelled against it. [11]
He despised her, rejected her, abhorred her. [11]
And to-morrow, my pretty Egyptian kitten, your little velvet paw will be fast in a trap set by the poor despised eunuch, who was not allowed, forsooth, to give you any orders. [10]
There was a pestilent heresy about, concerning the satisfaction to be derived from a good conscience, as if, anybody ever did anything which was not to be hated, loathed, despised, and condemned. [6]
I was not one, at any rate, to be despised or neglected. [9]
At the hands of the lately despised and injurious woman Rosalie was made ready to play the part in the last act, none knowing save the few who appeared in the final tableau, and they at the last moment only. [11]
You became tired of the donor, despised it as a plague, and finally gave it to Malos, the hidden, the vile traitor. [5]
He had thought of men in the mass, and despised them because of their multitudinous duplication, and their typical weaknesses; but he had never known one man or one woman from the subtler, surer divination of the heart. [11]
He was conscious of it, despised himself for it; but he could not help it. [11]
Was it really nothing but foolish vanity that led me to the conviction that you were thinking of me also when you engraved on the ribbon the despised spider-for which, however, I always felt a certain regard--with the delicate web beneath its slender legs? [10]
But an instinct not yet formulated told the president that he was face to face with an enemy whose potential powers were not to be despised, and he bristled in spite of himself. [9]
It is impossible not to feel a little contempt for people who do not have these luxuries till July and August; but I suppose we are in turn despised by the Southerners because we do not have them till May and June. [4]
The Maroons are not to be despised. [11]
Dr. Johnson may not care for Scotch blood, and yet I think a wee bit of it is not to be despised. [9]
Farrar, who despised nonsense, was ironical and non-committal when appealed to, and certainly I betrayed none of my client's attributes. [9]
It is by no means to be despised. [6]
How could a nation, who despised song, pretend to any nobility of feeling? [10]
He would have married her in those days, if she had given the word, for her will was stronger than his own; but she had broken from him in an agony of rage and regret and despised love. [11]
Trifling additions are made from year to year, not to be despised and not to be overvalued. [3]
Where was the long-lived Chafra who had despised the gods, and, defiant in the consciousness of his own strength, was said to have closed the gates of the temples in order to make himself and his name immortal by building a tomb of superhuman dimensions? [10]
I am the lineal descendant of that infant--I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft! [5]
It gave a lead to a latent feeling among members of the ministerial party, of distrust, and of suspicion that they were the dupes of a mind of abnormal cleverness which, at bottom, despised them. [11]
Not many years later a man named Grant was to be in Springfield, with a carpet bag, despised as a vagabond. [9]
From first to last, he was, without show of it, the best friend Montcalm had in the province; and though he held aloof from bringing punishment to Bigot, he despised him and his friends, and was not slow to make that plain. [11]
The few who knew and despised him did not matter, for they were able and learned and obscure, and, in the world where he moves, most people are superficial, mediocre, and 'tuppence coloured. [11]
If a man is sure that he is good, it is all the same to him whether he be despised or honored by other people. [10]
Bright tears gathered in the eyes of the little one, and he cast a troubled look at his despised treasures, in which he had rejoiced so heartily only a short time before. [10]
She felt that in most part it was true, that it was meant; and, whatever he was, he was yet a man offering his heart and life, offering a love that she despised, and yet which was love and passion of a kind. [11]
To be held in light esteem, nay, even despised, was part of her calling, like her constant wandering. [10]
He despised him in a worldly kind of way, because he might have been rich and splendid, and he was poor and unassuming. [11]
But his needless impetuosity and her sudden appearance before the house had placed her modest, charming sister, the betrothed bride of the gallant fellow who had fought with him in the Marchfield, in danger of being misunderstood and despised. [10]
This generous man immediately put aside his own matters and proceeded to peruse one of the despised manuscripts. [5]
One element in his success, a trivial one compared with others, but not to be despised, was his punctuality. [3]
But see you, here was this one despised man with an eye-glass, a tailor--takes nine tailors to make a man!--between the ravine and the galloping tragedy. [11]
The latter visited her and persecuted her with their supplications, but without effect, for her heart was true to her poor despised Crusader, who was fighting in the Holy Land. [5]
He had eloquence, he was thoughtful in all the little things which John Grier despised. [11]
She did not hate Isaac Worthington now--she despised him. [9]
Cynthia overheard Lem Hallowell telling it to Ephraim, and she could not for the life of her help rejoicing, though she despised herself for it. [9]
The crime which had been obscure and despised had become lofty and glorified. [5]
Besides, terrible thoughts had assailed her, showing her herself in want and shame, despised, disdained, begging for a morsel of bread, and her father under his fallen horse, on his lonely, couch of pain, in his coffin. [10]
These two qualities give it a certain degree of power which is not to be despised. [6]
As they rose from their knees, I took the sceptre, and holding it up on high with much solemnity, exclaimed: 'In five days an artificer has transformed the despised vessel into which ye spat and in which men washed your feet, into this divine image. [10]
She despised herself for being so nervous and unsettled. [4]
She despised herself for being so agitated, and for the furtive feeling that overcame her as she glanced about to be sure that she was alone, and then she ran up stairs to her room and locked the document in her own writing-desk. [4]
His pride was flattered that they should receive protection from him, and the flattery became almost a canonising when De Carteret of St. Ouen's brought him to task for harbouring and comforting the despised Huguenots; for when De Carteret railed he was envious. [11]
She despised her father for not being able to crush the little man. [9]
They were ready except one brother, who wielded his sword in the service of the oppressor, and thus became to the others a dreaded and despised enemy. [10]
In this perspective Ditmar appeared so ruthless, his purpose to use her and fling her away so palpable, that she despised herself for having hesitated. [9]
Nor have I despised those little ones whom that devout worshipper of Nature in her exceptional forms, the distinguished Barnum, has introduced to the notice of mankind. [6]
Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now that he has become a wretched comedian the Emperor Francis wants to offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage. [2]
How could he, despised and contemned, dare to aspire to the daughter of such a man as Zeno? [10]
For I heartily despised all that fustian trumpery of the age. [9]
She feels her color mounting, even as her resentment rises at his self-possession, and yet she would have despised him had he shown self-consciousness in gait or manner in the sight of her assembled guests. [9]
I should be classed with the despised "pious ones" who did such things regularly. [9]
He despised the Church, and St. John's above all churches, because you were of it; because you who had given so generously to it had wrecked his life. [9]
I despised this Chinese-speaking Spaniard for his mean slander of the land that was sheltering and feeding him. [5]
I selected a certain horse because I thought I saw him shy, and I thought that a horse that had spirit enough to shy was not to be despised. [5]
He always did catch horned dace and shiners, which he despised, and sometimes he snared a monstrous sucker a foot and a half long. [4]
He despised her, but he could make allowance for her. [11]
She could not but be conscious of her beauty also, and she was vain of that, and came to take a sort of delight in the exercise of her fascinations upon the rather loutish young men who came in her way and whom she despised. [5]
Books are not buried with their owners, and the veriest book-miser that ever lived was probably doing far more for his successors than his more liberal neighbor who despised his learned or unlearned avarice. [3]
He felt half bewildered and almost as if he had already become an embalmer, nay even a paraschites, one of the most despised of human beings. [10]
He despised them because of his old age and experience of life. [2]
Perhaps he did avoid them a little, and he despised himself for doing it. [4]
How Virginia chafed at those suppers, and how she despised the guests whom her aunt was in the habit of inviting to some of them! [9]
These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass. [5]
Ditmar had not apologized or feigned an altruism for which she would indeed have despised him. [9]
The mutilated, despised, and hunted man kept himself far from the other servants, regarding the meaner folk with undiminished scorn. [10]
He liked Petersburg and despised Moscow. [2]
They despised commerce and abandoned it to the conquered nations. [10]

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