somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Disdain

Disdainful of the present world - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Speak to me of danger and disdain - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Consult the disdainful horoscope - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

Fanged with thin disdain - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"

Disdained such palpable machinery - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

Born by a brave Disdain - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

A tone partly nervous and partly disdainful - Henry S. Leigh "Shabby-Genteel"

Has disdained her ancient conquests - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

In gladsome scorn's disdain - Theodore H. Rand "Victor Is He!"

Disdaining to arrest his flight - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Many a midnight of disdain - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"

Disdains the wind's rough courting - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

And disdains even the sun - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

Do not disdain its brimming gift - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

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