We also need to recognize that there is a dangerous boldness of great consequence in despising whatever we cannot understand.    From Wordnik.com.  [True or False? « So Many Books] Reference

This shall abundantly satisfy all the hearty well-wishers to God's interest, who will be glad to see themselves mistaken in despising the day of small things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

That cut and paste of Shakespeare earlier should have read 'despising'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win] Reference

Mere "despising" doesn't express the Greek roots of this word, which include the word for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

On a 100 point scale, "despising" would actually be a flat 0, or at best, a highly generous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hottest News Articles] Reference

If you knew in what an agonised state of humiliation I am sometimes, you would not suspect me of 'despising' you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference

Pococurante, in Candide, was admired for despising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference

 He didn't mind this, despite despising the color of the pillows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bludgeoning of a Burgeoning Young Artist] Reference

"Why should Miss Belle have any reason for despising Alexander Burke?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

It is not the lack of baptism, but the despising of baptism that condemns.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

In order to avoid despising or displeasing our parents, what should we not do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

They have also the capacity for despising those purposes and breaking our hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

Every man that passeth beyond his own bed, despising his own soul, and saying: Who seeth me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

That young lady calmly acting her part, thoroughly understanding and heartily despising them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

You find yourself both despising Strike's blindly are oral opportunism and pulling for his survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Exits In Brooklyn] Reference

It is entirely probable that he would never have thought of despising them as he did but for Mrs. Cinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference

In the course of a two-three weeks she left the parish, and I made up my mind as her'd left despising me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

But General Harkness had his headquarters in tents, despising the chance to use the small hotel of the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference

These men of clay and lordly air, claim rights superior to the State, despising the State provision for education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

I looked sharply at her: what earthly reason should Alfred Fluette have for despising Felix Page's private secretary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

Kaskas hath gained by hardening himself against the decrees of his evil destiny, and despising the advice of his friends!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Considered a prodigy, he spent his early artistic career avoiding cubism, despising surrealism and finding dada "a lot more droll.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Master Of Aloofness] Reference

They tempt us to oppose God's will by despising His Gospel, disobeying His Commandments, and murmuring against His dealings with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

They sneered, they jeered, they turned white-shirted coatless backs upon his box with derisive, despising laughter on their night-pale faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

In France, both President Jacques Chirac's conservatives and the opposition socialists are united in despising anything that smacks of Tony Blair and his "Anglo-Saxon model.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion: Latin Lessons] Reference

However, Whitfield having formed his chimerical project, determined to accomplish it, and, instead of bring discouraged by obstacles and difficulties, gloried in despising them.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference