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Tappertit, after glancing at her with a smile of ineffable disdain,
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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De sene nam juvenem dia referre potes, &c. Sweet Marian do not mine age disdain,
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“I do not know how often it is gathered on Mount Sinai,” said Wayland, after looking at the drug offered him with great disdain,
Kenilworth 2004
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Hath taught them scornful tricks, and such disdain,
Venus and Adonis 2004
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Accordingly, he had scarce quitted the apartment, when this cynic, attending him to the door with a look of morose disdain,
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These salutes to profiteering we treat with complete disdain,
The Greenchain Song 1996
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"Could you have wished," replied Monsieur de Cleves, looking on her with disdain,
The Princess of Cleves La Fayette, Madame de 1951
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"Law, mother!" said the eldest of the daughters, bridling with disdain,
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Though my anger may feign it requites thy disdain,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Oh! think, ere you treat a fond youth wi 'disdain,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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