Citations:esteem


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * is the celestial glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it?
 * Yet was he troubled to think that men in that danger should so little esteem the kindness of him that so freely offered to help them, both by awakening of them, counselling of them, and proffering to help them off with their irons.
 * We are so, indeed; but the men before us are so rigid, and love so much their own notions, and do also so lightly esteem the opinions of others, that let a man be never so godly, yet if he jumps not with them in all things, they thrust him quite out of their company.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He knew these men, also, perfectly. They were men of business: very wealthy, and of great importance. He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.