"Contumelious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of social ostracism. Although I curled a contumelious lip, I smarted under the indignity. It was all very well to say proudly "io son' io"; but io used to be a person of some importance who was not cavalierly "how d'ye do'd" by creatures like Renniker. This and the chance encounters of the next few ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... o'er earth's chosen heroes,—they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell
... added the knight, colouring, "I forgot that he is not advised of my name and land; and, indeed, sith thou art to be spokesman, I marvel why Harold should have prayed my service at all, at the risk of subjecting a Norman knight to affronts contumelious." ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... peace, in the spring of 1783, perhaps the earliest and the knottiest problem which had to be taken up was the one relating to that vast body of Americans who then bore the contumelious name of Tories,—those Americans who, against all loss and ignominy, had steadily remained loyal to the unity of the British empire, unflinching in their rejection of the constitutional heresy of American secession. How should these execrable beings—the defeated party in a long ...
— Patrick Henry • Moses Coit Tyler
... the respective regard of your well governed partes do challenge a mellifluous species of enduement or contumelious estimation. ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen |
