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"Deign" in a Sentence (16 examples)
She would not deign to consider such an offer.
"O by the gods, who know the just and true, / by faith unstained – if any such there be –, / with mercy deign such miseries to view; / pity a soul that toils with evils all undue."
Tom walked past Mary, but she didn't deign to look at him.
Tom passed Mary by, but she didn't deign to look at him.
Who knows if my eyes will deign to read all of this once they have rested a bit?
He didn't deign to answer his mobile phone.
May God Almighty deign to hear and grant our prayers.
He didn’t even deign to give us a nod of the head; he thought us that far beneath him.
My fathers Palace, Madam, vvill be proud / To entertaine your preſence, if youle daine / To make repoſe vvithin.
THE MAJOR-DOMO. Caesar will deign to choose his wine? Sicilian, Lesbian, Chian——
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"He will deign to finish this simple fare and wash it down with nothing more Lucullan than beer."
Before I could knock, Bonnie opened the door. “Finally you deign to show up” were the first words said to me. It had been a year.
Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men, / Till he diſburſed, at Saint Colmes ynch, / Ten thouſand Dollars, to our generall vſe.
He, who usually hardly deigned a glance at his infants, now lay gazing with inexpressible softness and sadness at the little sleeping face; […]
O LORD, Jesus Christ, who, before ascending into heaven, didst promise to send the Holy Ghost to finish thy work in the souls of thy Apostles and disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me […]
Go, go, be gone, to ſaue your Ship from wrack, / Which cannot periſh hauing thee aboarde, / Being deſtin’d to a drier death on ſhore : / I muſt goe ſend ſome better Meſſenger, / I fear my Iulia would not daigne my lines, / Receiuing them from ſuch a worthleſſe poſt.
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