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Thirdly, If thou do slight these, or those convictions that may be set upon thy heart by reading of this discourse, or hearing of any other good man preach the Word of God sincerely, thou wilt have the stifling of these or those convictions to account and answer for at the day of judgment; not only thy sins, that are commonly committed by thee in thy calling and common discourse, but thou shalt be called to a reckoning for slighting convictions, disregarding of convictions, which God useth as a special means to make poor sinners see their lost condition and the need of a Saviour.
If I offended you, however, forgive me, I pray you; I pray sincerely warmly. God knows I have suffered myself enough from idle words, and from the slighting opinion with which this hard world visits the poor, not to feel deep regret and shame if I wound, by like means, another, more especially" Constance's voice trembled, "more especially you!"
I saw no difference between forbearing to consult a parent, in a case where we know that his answer will condemn us, and slighting his express forbidding. I say thus much to account for, and, if possible, excuse, that concealment with which you reproach me.
"If you persist in slighting me like this," she whispered in his ear, in a whisper which was like a hiss, "I will abandon you for ever. I will give my heart to Harlequin, and you shall never see me again." But Pierrot continued to stare at the sky, and laughed once more inanely. Then Columbine got up, her eyes flashing with rage; taking Harlequin by the arm she dragged him swiftly away.
Her eyes flickered until they rested on Nettie Brocton. "I must ask Net for a dance," she said. "I suppose it is perfectly proper for a mere freshie to do so?" "Absolutely," replied Judith, "but you are not slighting me?" "Not for worlds, Judy. May I have the next?" "What's your hurry just now Bobbie? Trying to duck me?"
But none of them seemed so slighting or so jeering as this of Kiddy; and Irving flushed as he had done when he had been taken for a “new kid.” But now his sensitiveness was even more hurt; it wounded him that Westby, that pleasant, humorous person, should have been the one to apply the epithet. Westby began singing “The Wearing of the Green,” to an accompaniment on a banjo.
Why, let me ask, are so many illustrious men daily tearing themselves away from the embraces of their families, slighting the smiles of beauty, despising the allurements of fortune, and exposing themselves to the miseries of war? Why are kings desolating empires, and depopulating whole countries?
"I'm sure I don't want him!" said my mother; but Flora added some remark about the rebuke she would give him for slighting us. She would clearly never explain anything by any failure of her own power. There rolled over me while she took leave of us and floated back to her friends a wave of tenderness superstitious and silly.
Eric often talked now of work in this slighting way partly as an excuse for the low places in form to which he was gradually sinking.
During dinner one of the young men made some slighting remark about the conduct of the women in attempting to kill the Indians, characterizing their act as unwarranted and a breach of respect to the General. Instantly Gen. Davis pushed back from the table and rose to feet, fire flashing from his eyes, and if ever a young upstart received a lecture that young officer received one.
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