"Scorn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Sages who discuss'd Of the two Worlds so wisely—they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth: their Words to Scorn Are scattered and their ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... demonstrated it to you, in an unanswerable ballad, that Catherine's daughter was in consequence all that an empress should be and so rarely is. Harembourges and Bertha Broadfoot and white Queen Blanche would have been laughed to scorn, demolished and proven, in comparison (with a catalogue of very intimate personal detail), the squalidest sluts conceivable, ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... harangue which I uttered on the top of Snowdon; to which Henrietta listened with attention; three or four English, who stood nigh, with grinning scorn, and a Welsh gentleman with considerable interest. The latter coming forward shook ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... weapons to smite down the only foundation that upholds the old and new testament. It would be much easier work for them to stop the raging of the hurricane. God has them in derision, he will laugh them to scorn. But I must pass to the examination of this subject, as I ...
— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates
... interest of it, follow that same basket-ball player a little more closely. Was she well developed and evenly trained in her muscles? Yes, very. Did she go to gymnasium, or did she scorn it? She went, twice a week regularly, and had good fun there; but there was just this contrast between her and most of the girls in the class: Jane, as we will call her, went to gymnasium as a means to an end. She found that she got an even development there which enabled her to walk ...
— Nerves and Common Sense • Annie Payson Call
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