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1. (intr, adverb; foll by on or upon) to express or show contempt or disdain (for) look down one's nose at Informal to be contemptuous or disdainful of How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Place a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning over it, look down upon it. It would have made a fine picture, worthy of Rembrandt, the gloomy winding stairs illuminated by the reddish glare of the cresset of Gryphus, with his scowling jailer's countenance at the top, the melancholy figure of Cornelius bending over the banister to look down upon the sweet face of Rosa, standing, as it were, in the bright frame of the door of her chamber, with embarrassed mien at being thus seen by a stranger. To look down upon myself, and even upon my stars: that only would I call my SUMMIT, that hath remained for me as my LAST summit |
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