Example Sentences

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Deigns to reply from Heaven or from Hell.—

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Who is it then who with such courtly grace Deigns to accept our hospitalities?

From La Sainte Courtisane by Wilde, Oscar

O fair plant," said he, "with fruit surcharged, Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor Man?

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Yet, when his Muse, complying with his will, Deigns with informing heat his Breast to fill, Then hear him thunder in the Pompous strain Of Æschylus, or sooth in Ovid's vein.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel

Deigns not one look of mercy and of grace.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote