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Sophronia her selfe, not respecting the dishonest murmurings of base minded people, their vile and contemptible language, scornes and mockeries, and all to content and satisfie a friend, but onely
The Decameron 2004
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Whol'd beare the scornes of flattery of the world,
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Let them that have tender eares stop them against the charmes of the world, and scornes of _Michol_, unlesse they were wiser: Let him that hath a right eare, heare what Christ saith to the Churches, _Be zealous_.
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All around stood the 'Common People,' who made the ordeal still harder by 'many jeerings, mockings, scornes, and bitter jests' against the
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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If you tell him of the hornes he wants to make him most compleat, he scornes the motion, and sets them at his heele.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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'Ben Jonson, the poet, nowe lives upon one Townesend and scornes the world.'
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Or'e flowes the land, and scornes to be restrain'd,
Davids Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment. 1608-1661 1869
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Almighties owne charges, the scornes and curbs of victorious armies, which made the Barbarians in _Curtius_ so confident of their owne safety, when they were once retired to an inaccessible mountaine, that when _Alexanders_ Legate had brought them to a parley and perswading them to yeeld, told them of his masters victories, what Seas and
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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For he who scornes and makes but iests of cursings, and his othe,
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With scoffes and scornes, and contumelious taunts,
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