Citations:despite


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I have despised his person [Luke 19:14]; I have despised his righteousness; I have "counted his blood an unholy thing"; I have "done despite to the Spirit of grace".
 * Yes, and did see such things there, the remembrance of which will stick by me as long as I live; especially three things: to wit, how Christ, in despite of Satan, maintains his work of grace in the heart; how the man had sinned himself quite out of hopes of God's mercy; and also the dream of him that thought in his sleep the day of judgement was come.
 * And it is most rationally to be concluded, that such, even such as these are, that shall sin in the sight, yea, and that too in despite of such examples that are set continually before them, to caution them to the contrary, must be partakers of severest judgments.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.