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1. Forever associated with scorn – He is forever known as the King with a stiff-
2. Each desperate contestant was made to stand in front of the panel of judges on a spot marked with a silver star, and almost without fail the judges poured torrents of scorn and condescension down upon their heads
3. How are you?’ And there you are, trying to sound as though you’ve not spent the last half an hour waiting for him to call! And you have the nerve to scorn Katie sitting by the phone? Ha!
4. Have scorn for
5. almost without fail the judges poured torrents of scorn and
6. Mickey looked up briefly as she sat down at the table then, scorn in his eye, turned to Sheila and muttered something inaudible from where Chrissie was sitting
7. Grinly looked at him with scorn, ‘We walk
8. Corrente’s only reply was a look of scorn
9. scorn, a byword among the nations
10. of scorn to the nations
11. treat his question with scorn
12. Marguerite treated the man to another look of scorn
13. scorn turned quickly to hatred
14. the floor, before casting her husband a look of scorn
15. But oh, how I repaid you with laughter and with scorn
16. I looked again at this man, bearing shame and bearing scorn
17. He eyes her with scorn
18. than the last time he’d seen her? He’d shown nothing but scorn and then self-interest that day she approached him on the street
19. One of the patrons, a silver-headed Nord, glared at the man’s evident scorn
20. Guilt flashed across his face, then hatred, then scorn
21. Except he was thinking of the old Roidon; what remained of the man seemed barely a pale shadow, and Torbin began to feel uneasy with himself at his scorn
22. than pour scorn on it
23. ” She crossed her arms under her breasts at that and looked at him with scorn before she said, “Just make sure I never see him again, Adem Highlander
24. But this was an act of self-defence and an attempt to save the fate of an entire world and to save a King! He knew in his heart his actions were justified, though the looks of scorn he received from Carl made his heart heavy with guilt
25. “My sisters will join me, thank you, Thad,” Hayley replied with a touch of scorn
26. The object of Uncle Hobart's scorn chose that moment to wake up
27. "Really Inspector," she said, the scorn dripping from her voice, "I expected better than this from a public servant
28. His face tightened, though whether in anger or scorn, I couldn’t tell
29. “Fin!” Willow’s voice was full of scorn
30. There, he could see only smug cofidence and cool scorn
31. He sniffed the air around the ragged, bloodied clothing, and a grimace of distaste and scorn appeared on his otherwise solidly expressionless face
32. And he’d rather die trying rather than abandon and shame his blood and soul brothers, or face the wrathful scorn of Celia; no, that alone, he could never suffer
33. The ignoble man will scorn whom he can
34. Scorn them? Forgive them?
35. exasperation or futility or impossibility, looks of scorn, resignation, and her favorite and most used, a look of inquiry
36. I felt safe from his scorn because I didn’t want any of those jobs, and I certainly didn’t intend to “Get-married-and-have-children” until my late thirties, early forties, after I was well established in my career
37. Had he planned it this way to make up to me what I’d endured at their hands? He continued raking them with his scorn
38. Faith said nothing, but her eyes flashed golden-brown scorn at Mary
39. Faith accordingly stalked past Dan with her chin out and an expression of scorn that bit into his soul
40. Even the hungry "young rips" did not feel it any great deprivation to abstain from the "lumpy porridge and blue milk" which had aroused the scorn of Mary Vance
41. 7 He scorn the multitude of the city, neither regards he the crying of the driver
42. "You were cowards," said Jerry with judicial scorn, "and you gave way to your cowardice
43. Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, what is this thing that you do? Will
44. your high place in every street; and has not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire; 32 But as a wife who commits adultery, which
45. 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn to them:
46. “It’s gotten to be a can’t miss show for me,” she said with scorn
47. 14 For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting out of the infants, him in the end, when
48. 11 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul, for there is one which humbles and exalts
49. 7 And he will shame you by his meats, until he have drawn you dry twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh you to scorn
50. herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spoke in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity on me that
1. Athena hadn’t scorned them, after all
2. The Motion Picture industry has enjoyed a long running fetish with strong, physically intimidating women routinely beating up on or otherwise skillfully out-maneuvering the obnoxious designs of pretentious, self-centered males filled with a heightened sense of their (own) self-importance; convenient foils portrayed as anachronistic, insensitive, chauvinistic types deserving an occasional thrashing every so often from women scorned or in response to inopportune or unsolicited (sexual) banterings or harmless wisecracks intended to make a definitive statement about strong women coming of age
3. He was humiliated, whipped, and scorned for each of us, and
4. “A dragon’s power! And you? Do you have the power to fight me? You have nothing! You have scorned me, scorned my help, and here you are—more helpless than a child
5. "His cross": which is scorned by the world, hated by
6. I had been scorned by this woman repeatedly, and even this close to her neck, and hungry as ever, I couldn’t feed off her, even if it was the last time I’d see Levi or her again
7. Beliefs and practices that have guaranteed democracy and the rule of law come to be scorned as outdated and useless, and fall into decay
8. • The voices of wise and successful men and women are scorned and ridiculed
9. He scorned at my loneliness and my depression
10. He wears a scorned expression as he stares at the steam from the bowl
11. 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time and that scorned by all men for cowardice 21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness by not contending to the death for our divine law
12. Bahkælt scorned the idea that these effete southrons would dare show the initiative to do us injury
13. He scorned the notion
14. Does it mean she will not remember tomorrow what she did today but will remember next week, next year or twenty-five years from now? The fact is she remembers that I scorned her
15. Instead, she was labelled a ‘vindictive scorned woman’ and suffered a nervous breakdown
16. Burgandy explained to her daughter that she was scorned and verbally abused by the town
17. “Place or no place I want them out of here as soon as possible” Bridget scorned
18. “With me and Patrick” Matthew scorned
19. “As a matter of fact, neither do I” he scorned
20. Sadly, owing to the faux-surrender popularised by pop Christianity, jailhouse conversions and twelve step programs, this vital and necessary growth stage has fallen into disrepute and is widely scorned as the desperate act of the stupid, the frightened and the weak
21. Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
22. Talk about a woman scorned! Especially an Irish woman
23. With a single exception, every old Puritan pulpit in Boston and vicinity was in the possession of men who scorned the evangelical creed
24. and scorned by the nonbelievers the whole way?
25. and scorned, and are often killed for their efforts in faith (Paul, Jesus)
26. Faye looked at her hands folded in her lap, feeling ashamed that she had been scorned by a woman she admired
27. I fell asleep somewhere in the middle of the melodramatic profession of the heroine’s love for the man who had scorned her years ago
28. were always treated well and never abused or scorned openly; they were
29. thy tainted blood shall be scorned by all
30. His attempts to get ahead and prosper are scorned by the other seagulls
31. He’d scorned her, dismissed her theories as being stupid and unfounded
32. She tells the empty woods, “Never underestimated the determination of a scorned woman
33. outskinned holy; more scorned she is that destoys all fallen angels, mice and men
34. I can remember vividly times in my own school years of being ridiculed and scorned and how painful it was
35. A woman scorned and all that
36. Here I am facing the mentioned object so desired by women and scorned by men
37. Thus acquiesced by the colluding partners to share the spoils of power, she began ruling the country through proxy, and as if to validate William Congreve’s “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”, she made Mother India pay the price for that ‘indigestible’ political slight by her children
38. He scorned even fame and wealth but he was still unable to escape from the darkest recess of his heart
39. In the day, the burning sun scorned her
40. woman is so scorned that she is manipulating me to fight with my wife
41. But others laughed and mocked and scorned
42. Being near naked in front of Marcus wasn't to my liking and I goaded Nancy into clawing and scratching with all the fury of a woman scorned, but she was no match against his strength
43. I clawed at Adrian with all the fury of a woman scorned, called him hurtful, hateful names, then hurled the ring back in his face
44. You think a man scorned is any worse than a lady?”
45. Jesse scorned him, “Absolutely not! Put them anywhere you want, but not in the bathroom! I refuse to be recorded in here, is that clear!”
46. “Humph!” Scorned the Danava chief
47. “If you could possibly spare the time I would like to give you some of my money” Mark scorned
48. That their honesty reveals every vulnerable thing, every sensitive thing they are curious about… and that all curiosity and sensitivity is ignored, laughed-at, derided, scorned, and spat on
49. I had the vague awareness that Indians tended to spiritualism and mysticism which I dismissed and scorned just as I dismissed and scorned our own Christian religious beliefs and rituals and what little I knew of the Muslim faith
50. Pre-marital and extra-marital sexual relations were normal and the courtesans like the hetaerae in Ancient Greece were admired and socially accepted and not scorned as in our days
1. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud
2. elbow in the meat, and of scorning to give and take;
3. Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel
4. Pro 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
5. At the same time, the snow-ravens spread their wings across the Kingdom of the Air and made the skies their own, scorning the lesser pleasures of the earth
6. 6 But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture more rightly should we younger men die scorning your cruel tortures which our aged instructor overcame
7. Ellen pushed it in a hill start slightly hurting her wrist and scorning Matthew, but it did start again and remained a mystery as to why it didn’t in the first instance
8. Her fiery eyes, not her own eyes, were scorning her old sister
9. Jesus spoke of some denying his name, some betraying and scorning him, and eventually his death as a result of it all
10. It would help if you got rid of all negative, scorning, mocking, belittling stuff that you're exposed to
11. 'It would send me much madder to have a person of superior intellect buttoning my boots and scorning me while she does it,' I replied
12. Mary continued without acknowledging the scorning
13. honourable as it was devoted, and here it was that at last Marcela ended by scorning and rejecting him so as to bring the tragedy of his wretched life to a close; here, in memory of misfortunes so great, he desired to be laid in the bowels of eternal oblivion
14. Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
15. Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
16. What I felt on hearing that your sister was dying--and dying too, believing me the greatest villain upon earth, scorning, hating me in her latest moments--for how could I tell what horrid projects might not have been imputed? One person I was sure would represent me as capable of any thing-- What I felt was dreadful!--My resolution was soon made, and at eight o'clock this morning I was in my carriage
17. There you experience the consequences of scorning 'book-larning,' as you would say
18. He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt
19. Often after dark, when I was pulling the bellows for Joe, and we were singing Old Clem, and when the thought how we used to sing it at Miss Havisham's would seem to show me Estella's face in the fire, with her pretty hair fluttering in the wind and her eyes scorning me,—often at such a time I would look towards those panels of black night in the wall which the wooden windows then were, and would fancy that I saw her just drawing her face away, and would believe that she had come at last
20. The better class of them, scorning freedom,
21. Others who were permitted to take the oath, hotly refused to do so, scorning to to take the oath, become citizens again and forget the past
22. There you experience the consequence of scorning “book-larning,” as you would say
23. What I felt on hearing that your sister was dying—and dying too, believing me the greatest villain upon earth, scorning, hating me in her latest moments—for how could I tell what horrid projects might not have been imputed? ONE person I was sure would represent me as capable of any thing— What I felt was dreadful!—My resolution was soon made, and at eight o’clock this morning I was in my carriage
24. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe
25. And the bard all sorrows scorning,
26. “Still,” he said, looking at her curiously, “there must be something tiresome in having to be scorning somebody all the time
1. Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly
2. time she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and his rider
3. He scorns the scorners but He gives grace to the lowly the wise shall inherit glory but shame shall be the promotion of fools
4. the words of knowledge; the ungodly witness scorns judgment, and the mouth of the wicked consumes iniquity
5. The critical theorist scorns logic and reason as weapons of persecution wielded by “white male trash” designed for the “hegemonistic suppression” of females and minorities
6. It is his intimate enemy—he grudgingly relies on it for feedback but scorns it when it acts as a mirror or sounding board
7. But spirit scorns it, and is free
8. And scorns the others’ cause
9. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
10. So Fate that ever scorns to grant
11. (Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left, For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?
12. For baseness of the spirit scorns,
13. I beg to be excused for asking him (for I know he scorns submission as much as any man) if submission will pay the public debt? To that gentleman's acute and comprehensive mind, the deleterious consequences of the present system of the belligerents to our interests, must be glowing, self-evident