Both changed colour, one looked white, the other red . Mr. Wickham, after a few moments, touched his hat--a salutation which Mr. Darcy just deigned to return.
I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
Has he deigned to add ought of civility to his ordinary style? for I dare not hope, he continued in a lower and more serious tone, that he is improved in essentials.
A critical assumption is sometimes made that we have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers either cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true.
Then Votini fell to twirling his very handsome white castor hat on the tip of his forefinger; but the boy—and it seemed as though he did it on purpose—did not deign even a glance at the hat.