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Tho 'suff'ring still, they still thy Laws despise,
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He dreamed that he saw, what he could but despise,
The Youth's Coronal Hannah Flagg Gould
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At the rude clamor; -- yet, shouldst thou despise,
Poetic Sketches Thomas Gent
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With which when thy quick mind is clad, it will the loathéd earth despise,
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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The man who is a weakling, who is a coward, we all despise,
Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904 1904
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Ah! who would friendship's outstretched hand despise,
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At the same time, as long as a party is going my way, I believe in placing that party above particular persons, and if that party nominates a man that I despise,
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Robert Green Ingersoll 1866
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Indians, and shoots wild cats and Comanches with equal nonchalance; and astonishes with the boastful narratives of his former exploits, the simple-minded backwoodsmen -- those rude American vi-kings who wear leather breeches and buckskin shirts, and live by following the chase; but who are honest and rudely chivalrous, though unschooled in the arts of civilized life, all of which they as heartily contemn and despise,
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'Hold! gardener,' said the ploughman, 'my calling don't despise,
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833
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While in his Ear I sung his future praise. this hoarse rough Voice, which you so much despise,
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