Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. From LearnThat.org. [Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984).]
Will you, Wallace, again condescend to save a country that has treated you so ungratefully?. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
To say that Coleridge would not 'condescend' would be. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
I won't "condescend" to serve as stenographer of who said what at the forum. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mountain Daily - Front Page] Reference
No, I won't "condescend" to serve as stenographer of who said what at the forum - nor did I expect that from bloggers here. From Wordnik.com. [Green Mountain Daily - Front Page] Reference
Mr Clay did not condescend to talk to any of them. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
Mr Holt did not condescend to turn and look at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
But only a fool would condescend to Vanessa Redgrave. From Wordnik.com. [Deep In The Heart Of Texas] Reference
"You want to be able to condescend to them," he says. From Wordnik.com. [A Park Avenue Tutor Pens a Tell-All] Reference
They adore him because he doesn't condescend to them. From Wordnik.com. [Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez At 85] Reference
She hopes that should they condescend to pay the United. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
It is possible for beauty to condescend without wounding. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
With what consummate disdain does she condescend to give the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
'Taste it, Lois,' was all Aunt Joan would condescend to reply. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Aspire not to things that are high, but condescend to the lowly. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
Princess, will condescend to a poor unknown, and become my wife. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The Prince's coachman would not condescend to drive a plebeian like her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Kerry managed to appeal to women without seeming to pander or condescend. From Wordnik.com. [Trail Mix: On the Defense] Reference
He's just the sort of pathetic country boy most actors would condescend to. From Wordnik.com. [The Best-Laid Plans] Reference
So Faye went over without a guard, but did condescend to wear his revolvers. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
"Oh, you might condescend to claim a kindred with them," he answered lightly. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
It is noble, and perhaps worthy of the favour you condescend to honour me with. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The other two didn't bother to come to their feet, but did condescend to shake hands. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers The Challoner Revision] Reference
If Mlle. d 'Armilly would condescend to explain, he would regard it as a special favor. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
More than that, though, Rowling succeeds because she refuses to condescend to her readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Last-and Best—of Harry Potter] Reference
He would not condescend to deny an act which he considered himself justified in committing. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
He doesn't condescend to her when he asks, “Are we sure we're already calling it quits?”. From Wordnik.com. [Out On The Waves] Reference
Even should he condescend to read, he would find either "nothing new," or "nothing new worth knowing.". From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
'If you will condescend to call here to-morrow night about this time, they shall be ready for you,' one of us declared. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
"You couldn't expect that any but the 'poorest specimen' would condescend to be a curate at Drum," she returns flippantly. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
I am glad you cannot dance: you are on the level of too much dignity and noble behavior to condescend to such petty things. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"You condescend to look at me at last, mademoiselle; I feared to-day I was to be forever banished from your friendly glances.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Cromwell, it seemed, could not consent to accept a favor at his hands; yet he could condescend to make that manner of use of him!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The girls laughingly assured her that seniors did sometimes condescend so far, and she went off with a happy look in her great gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
'Madam! might I observe that if you won't condescend to notice that we're here your front door will run the risk of being severely injured!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
We are not often called upon to accept favors from those who are not our superiors but who condescend to us because we are poor or obscure. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
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