close one's eyes vs despise

close one's eyes

verb
  • To ignore something. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes. 

  • To sleep. 

despise

verb
  • To disregard or ignore. 

  • To regard with contempt or scorn. 

How often have the words close one's eyes and despise occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )