| From the beginning they declined to meet with his own weapons a man whom they so contemned. |
| Was this the man who contemned the whole English peasantry, colliers especially? |
| It nettled him to be put on the defensive, his subtleness openly contemned. |
| Here is told of Beowulf, and how he was contemned in his youth, and is now grown so renowned. |
| But are not those who are called upon to open the way always misunderstood, contemned and struck by prohibitions? |
| Henry worshipped him, and the more Tom was contemned the more Henry worshipped. |
