"Condescension" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Steptoe having repeated the role of Mrs. Courage, Letty imitated him as best she could in getting the purchase for her bow and catching his air of high-bred condescension. ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... of example. He not only tells the child what to do and how to do it, but shows him how it really can be done. In condescension to our weakness, our Heavenly Teacher has given us the very words we are to take with us as we draw near to our Father. We have in them a form of prayer in which there breathe the freshness and fulness of the Eternal Life. So simple that the child can ...
— Lord, Teach Us To Pray • Andrew Murray
... nations of the world, battling with the currents and cross-currents near the storm-scarred old earth, and continually endeavouring to rise above their fellows to some calmer strata, where serene in their original form they could look down with condescension upon their harassed and broken ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... to no such condescension on his part even in circumstances more extraordinary, she merely bundled out of bed unquestioningly in the darkness and cold of the morning to see his orders executed in the proper manner; which, indeed, to her credit was so successfully accomplished that Tanty and her charges, when they made ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... revolving, and reflecting, and considering on your past goodness, and kindness, and condescension ...
— Standard Selections • Various
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