yelled another; while the object of this outburst of animosity, recovering himself sufficiently to glance round with a contemptuous sneer on his face, fell back, and endeavoured to hide his confusion by entering into conversation with Gull and Thurston.

That face was strikingly beautiful, it had been remarked more than once in London; but any admiration only called forth the covert sneers of Lady Heyburn.

" "Well, will you go and see him about it yourself?" asked Allingford, with a slight sneer.

"Very well, Mr. Gifford," he returned with an ugly sneer.

Gaspingly Tudor uttered the question, yet something of the habitual sneer which he always kept for Piers distorted his mouth as he spoke.

I fancy I have detected him in more than one dark passage, a dagger in his hand and a bitter sneer on his countenance.

Observe yonder jaundiced youth pacing the street moodily, his lips set in a cynic sneer.

she said, with a scornful sneer.

Tudor's thin lips displayed a faint sneer.

He indulges in frequent sneers at the "weight of authority" to which Mr. Prescott was accustomed to attach some importance in the discussion of a doubtful point.

"Old memories are spectres that do seem to chase the soul out of the world,"an old quotation which may be admitted without embracing the metaphysical paradox, that "subjective thought is the poison of life," or conceding the sharp sneer of the cynic "Know, ye who for your pleasures gape, Man's life at best is but a scrape.

Only Adelaide broke the silence; with her gaze fixed full on Withers, and a triumphant sneer crowning her happy lips, she uttered one word by way of chorus,"Joseph!"

A loud sneer for our feathered friends.

'Why do you fling my grandfather's name in my faceand with that diabolical sneer?'

" "Much as I am flattered by your application," said Somerville, with a polite sneer, "since it would seem to place me next in estimation to your husband, I cannot help suggesting that it is not usual to bestow such a sum on a stranger, or even a friend, without an equivalent rendered.

Is there a smirk, a villanous, unfeeling, disagreeable, cynical sneer, lurking under your confounded moustache?

Let us exercise charity by not quoting instances, but let us be watchful of our laughter and our fellowship, which are both gifts of God, and see that we do not confuse pagan pleasure with Christian joy, the evil sneer with the tender recognition of the absurd in ourselves and in others.

The coarse sneer could not be answered.

Let mirth abound; let social cheer Invest the dawning of the year; Let blithesome innocence appear, To crown our joy; Nor envy, wi' sarcastic sneer, Our bliss destroy.

As he neared his hotel, he thought of his morning visit to Goldsmith's tomb, and ten-fold he repented the little half-sneer with which he had bought the flowers.

"Do you know, cousin," said Clotilde, with a malicious sneer, "that this rural surprise is quite enchanting!

Ridicule of the sacred writings is more dangerous than burning them, and a sneer at the miracles of the gospel more mischievous than disfiguring the statues of the evangelists; and it must be confessed that these Anti-christian Iconoclasts themselves might probably have been content to "believe and say their prayers," had not the intolerance of philosophy made them atheists and persecutors.

Is there a smirk, a villanous, unfeeling, disagreeable, cynical sneer, lurking under your confounded moustache?

He took every occasion of contradicting me: sometimes indulged in sly sneers at my expense, and now and then even attempted to turn me into open ridicule.

But it was not in the power of Mrs. Abijah Gross, with her audible whisper and obvious sneer and laugh, to put down two such lovely creatures as Eve and her cousin.