1 Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
2 But he didn't despise himself and it didn't turn out as he had imagined.
3 Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.
4 So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
5 And yet I did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME 6 I have shown you often enough,' said I, 'that I despise you.
7 Consequently Vronsky had the right to despise Levin, and therefore he was his enemy.
8 In spite of the fact that, preparing herself for meeting him, she had schooled herself to despise and reproach him, she did not know what to say to him, and she felt sorry for him.
9 I respect your past and despise your present.
10 It was just part of her nicey-nice way of acting which had always made Scarlett despise her.
11 And he would despise you if he did know.
12 Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
13 Though I despise these people who interfere.
14 The hour, however, afforded him some little of that protection which he appeared so much to despise.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 15 He particularly remembered an old fellow who used to sit upon a cracker box in front of the store and feign to despise such exhibitions.