Scorned

Examples

• The reddleman lived like a gipsy; but gipsies he scorned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We scorned to consider sunsets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They would have scorned to speak of what they had to bear to any one who might, from his position, have understood it without their words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without, said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Recollect how you rather scorned my description of it one evening in Harley Street: a village in a tale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Every one had heard the rumours in question, and he scorned to confirm a tale that was already common property. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I stood to be scorned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Martin scorned her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This Milton manufacturer, his great tender heart scorned as it was scorned, said to me only last night, Go to her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I have been wandering ever since then--a poor castaway, scorned for being miserable, and insulted because I am alone. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• No, he scorned the base insinuation. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He also advised me to be composed; I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As to Happiness or Hope, they and I had shaken hands, but just now--I scorned Despair. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There had been a time when he would have scorned her as a companion, and turned from her with little ceremony. Jane Austen. Emma.

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