All 13 Uses of
contempt
in
The Last of the Mohicans
- Renard smiled with cold contempt, as he answered: "When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies.†
Chpt 10
- This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.†
Chpt 15
- Heyward, who perceived that his superior took a malicious pleasure in exhibiting his contempt for the message of the French general, was fain to humor a spleen that he knew would be short-lived; he therefore, replied with as much indifference as he could assume on such a subject: "My request, as you know, sir, went so far as to presume to the honor of being your son."†
Chpt 16
- The old man made a gesture of resignation, though his rigid features still betrayed his obstinate adherence to a distrust, which he derived from a sort of hereditary contempt of his enemy, rather than from any present signs which might warrant so uncharitable a feeling.†
Chpt 16
- "Yes," said Hawkeye, dropping his rifle, and leaning on it with an air of visible contempt, "he will do their singing.†
Chpt 18
- "The time may come when you will not consider the knife of a savage such a despicable vanity," returned the scout, with a strong expression of contempt for the other's dullness.
Chpt 22 *contempt = lack of respect
- Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.†
Chpt 23
- Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue.†
Chpt 24
- He was far above the more vulgar superstitions of his tribe, and so soon as he recognized the well-known attire of the conjurer, he prepared to pass it in cool contempt.†
Chpt 25
- It was, in fact, the dilapidated and solitary structure in which David had been discovered, and whom he had tolerated in his presence, on those few occasions when they met, with the contemptuous indifference of a haughty superiority.†
Chpt 27
- Almost at the same instant, the rattling sound of the rifle was heard, as he suffered it to fall, contemptuously, to the earth.†
Chpt 29
- He intimated his contempt of the offer with a backward motion of his head, and said, in a steady and settled voice: "Le Renard Subtil is a great chief; he has but one mind.†
Chpt 30
- The boy answered it with a feeble but contemptuous shout; and immediately a second bullet was sent after him from another part of the cover.†
Chpt 31