“I have a husband who makes war upon me because I contemn his bed and board.”

“Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person.”

“Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old wife's tale, which you will contemn.”

“These congelations, through their weakness, are unable to obtain in Mercury, and therefore, on that account, he altogether contemns them.”

“Was this the man who contemned the whole English peasantry, colliers especially?”

“But are not those who are called upon to open the way always misunderstood, contemned and struck by prohibitions?”

“Here is told of Beowulf, and how he was contemned in his youth, and is now grown so renowned.”

“Such a critic will not respect Balzac's good work the less for contemning his bad work.”

“I counsel you to free yourself of clogging temptations, by overcoming some, and contemning others, and watching over all.”

“He upbraids his levity for contemning a country life, which had been his choice, and being eager to return to Rome.”