"Scorn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the crown of the head to the sole of her foot, surrounded by her kind, and cherished and admired as one of the choicest gems of the garden, whether she considered it an agreeable thing to be a flower, she would probably toss her head in scorn, as youthful beauties do, at the very question. But ask the poor roadside blossom, trampled on, switched off, and subjected to every trial that is visited on strength and roughness, without the strength and roughness to protect her, and there is very little doubt that she would express ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various
... Prince." Such inconsiderate violence gave a great advantage to Pitt, one of whose most useful characteristics as a debater was a readiness and presence of mind that nothing could discompose. He repelled such menaces and imputations with an equally lofty scorn, and, after a few necessary preliminaries, brought forward a series of resolutions, one of which declared the fact of the sovereign's illness, and consequent incapacity; a second affirmed it to be the right and duty of the two Houses of Parliament to provide the means for ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge
... land; How, boldly, in defiance of commands Sent out by skirmishing Frosts, they still drew near, Passing the outer line of her domains; Daring to come, with their invading eyes, Where never mortals else had looked and lived. He told,—and here he glanced, upon his friends, Eyes of bright scorn—how the imperious ship Passed safely Tug and Dor, though all the guards Shot barbs of ice, and filled the air with fine, Invisible needles, piercing their pained flesh, And tore their stiffening sails with sharp-teethed winds; How, still, the ship pressed on where ...
— The Arctic Queen • Unknown
... at the idea of Luke Jordan in the character of an instrument of heavenly protection. She had not regarded him in that light, it must be confessed, but had rejected him with scorn. ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... crouch under the eaves of old churches, elbows on knees, chin on hands, and fixed her eyes in silence on her silent companion. In spite of her work along the acknowledged lines of science, she had pursued her hypnotic studies furtively, half in scorn and half in fear of her scientific brethren. What would she not have given to be enabled to watch, to comprehend the changes passing within that human form so close to her that she could see its every external ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods
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