" "And then," added Beth, "if Hucks should prove to be a miser, it is easy to guess he would hide his wealth where he could secretly gloat over it, and still continue to pose as a pauper.

The old Man clears his rheumy eye, The six months' Babe forgets to cry; No passers byall fondly gloat, So welcome is thy cheering note, Which time nor taste has ever changed; And after every clime we've ranged, Return to theeour childhood's joy, And, spite of age, still play the boy!

They were foolishly gloating over the prospect of meeting the two daughters of the Governor-General, and were telling what they knew about them with much freedom, for, even in a monarchy, the chief executive and his family are public property and subject to the censorship of any one who has a voice for talking.

"Tie them up again, Peter," said Lolla, looking viciously at Bessie, and obviously gloating over the way in which she had tricked the American girl.

Piet Vreiboom openly gloated, as if he were gazing upon a spectacle of rare delight.

She positively gloated over the crestfallen Mr. Sommerville.

He, too, had to be emancipated, as much as Argemone, from selfish dreams; to learn to work trustfully in the living Present, not to gloat sentimentally over the unreturning Past.

"They'll sit and watch you two, and they'll gloat over the spectacle" A brisk tattoo of knuckles on the oaken door stopped him.

Louis gloated brutally over her confusion.

She depicts you as a sort of cardiacal buccaneer and visibly gloats over the tale of your enormities.