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"You are despising my ornaments," he said to Sarah Brown.

From Living Alone by Benson, Stella

Take the world over, perhaps all classes of people are despising others quite as much as they are despised themselves.

From What Can She Do? by Roe, Edward Payson

Be mean, small, and ridiculous,—be yourselves; we shall all be a great deal more at our ease when you are despicable and we are despising you again.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

You shall see now what you are despising, what you are warring against. 

From Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram

Recollect, I pray you, with whose word you are contending;—whose wisdom you are despising!

From The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Dickinson, Austin