| 1. | There was a curl of contempt in his lips. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | I have the greatest contempt for optimism. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | I felt an immeasurable contempt for him.... - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | Wouldst thou admit for his contempt of the. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 5. | EVE, thy contempt of life and pleasure seem. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 6. | "Your tone of contempt for us poor townsfolk... - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | A spirit of contempt for the fawners and plotters.. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundles. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 9. | Its meaning ran "If it's a trick, then calm contempt and departure. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | What our contempts doth often hurl from u. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
