Who knows if my eyes will deign to read all of this once they have rested a bit?

Thou, who alone Troy's sorrows deign'st to hear, / and us, the gleanings of the Danaan spear, / poor world-wide wanderers and in desperate case, / has ta'en to share thy city and thy cheer, / meet thanks nor we, nor what of Dardan race / yet roams the earth, can give to recompense thy grace."

She seemed to be an angel descended on earth, unallied to the coarse mortals among whom she deigned to dwell for a season.

Tom walked past Mary, but she didn't deign to look at him.

O by the gods, who know the just and true, / by faith unstained – if any such there be –, / with mercy deign such miseries to view; / pity a soul that toils with evils all undue."

Tom passed Mary by, but she didn't deign to look at him.

She would not deign to consider such an offer.