Deigned

It was when sitting gravely round the fire later on that the Stag deigned to enlighten his followers as to his reasons for giving what seemed to them so great a price for a pale-faced child. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The owners of the building had not even deigned to run a rude carpet along its length. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I kept an eye on the door to see what respectable citizens deigned to cross our dirty threshold in support of Bill. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

At a distance of ten feet she straightened up and deigned to look at me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not even nest-bound birds or squirrels awakened by my voice deigned to answer. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

This text speaks explicitly of those whom the Lord (has) deigned to regenerate of water and the Holy Spirit, granting to them remission of their sins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Neither the great prince himself nor any of his blighted underlings deigned to answer my call. ❋ Melissa Mayhue (2011)

What if the authors of other nations, when they deigned to include Americans in their fiction, only wrote of Americans as narcissistic serial killers? ❋ Unknown (2009)

UPDATE: (July 10) Canadian officials have finally deigned to take Hagi's fingerprints. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Li Tang Fwung, the power behind the Dragon Throne, deigned to reply. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And most average consumers don't attend CES, so they wouldn't know Apple had deigned to mingle among the tech proletariat. ❋ Jena McGregor (2011)

The unicorn had deigned to wear a purple halter, and a matching lead rope was attached. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

But Christian princes were not satisfied with the mere suspension of human justice during these days, which are so emphatically days of mercy: they would, moreover, pay homage, by an external act, to the fatherly goodness of God, who has deigned to pardon a guilty world, through the merits of the death of His Son. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the time he accepted that he would have no sons and deigned to break tradition and teach his art to a daughter, I had decided his pride was false, that he painted lies, and in doing so he furthered the lie to the next generation. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

Which is the main reason why director Oliver Stone, who has made a good living out of documenting crucial moments in America's recent past with such movies as Born on the Fourthof July, JFK and World Trade Center, deigned to do his first sequel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even so, in the time before the plague, such was her exalted position, she would not have deigned to know that I existed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyone duly anointed therein was marked for almost certain cultural stardom, partly by virtue of the imprimatur of cool conferred if, say, Andy deigned to show an interest, but mostly as a result of the Stein's uncanny feelers for a revolution of art, experience and expression in the making. ❋ Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue (2011)

Since the presider had deigned not to reveal specifics to him at this point, Picard figured she must be trying to preserve something of a surprise for him when and if he found time to visit the site. ❋ Dayton Ward (2011)