266 examples of gloat in sentences

'Wild Bill' was a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over.

Benham took a back seat, and when anybody remembered him for the next hour it was openly to gloat over his discomfiture.

This devil's land took on a vindictive personality; it was a hideous colossus, stooping over her, inspired with but one cruel desire, to crush her soft white body, to stamp out her life, to annihilate her and gloat over her shrieking despair.

Then he would gloat over the pins as they skipped about the maps.

The boat with the message so false has gone to Holland for the German Kaiser to gloat over, and the filthy spy is in the safe lock-up.

Like you, they take that dreadful form, Bask in the sun, and fly the storm; With malice hiss, with envy gloat, And for convenience change their coat; 30 With new-got lustre rear their head, Though on a dunghill born and bred.'

He had heard tales of men who could find satisfaction in a murder, but he had never believed that a human being could actually gloat over his own savagery.

in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over &c (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish, like; love &c 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of. take in good part. treat oneself to, solace oneself with.

He had been occasionally good-natured in former days; now he seemed to gloat in carnage.

With the exception of the poet, who, as we have seen, occasionally irradiated the poet's corner of the "Argus," and Mr. Moggridge, it was a first appearance in print for three out of the five contributors; and though each talked most of the articles by the others, they were secretly longing to get away with the little paper to some corner where they could gloat over their own special contribution.

And, since no law their course restrains, Gloat o'er their writhing victim's pains.

" Read this ye who gloat over ill-gotten wealth, or abuse good fortune; think of the delights of this divine benefactresssilent and unknownbut, above all, of the exceeding great reward laid up for her in heaven.

She had known, as well as other mothers, how to gloat over the sweet charms of the one thing which in all the world had been quite her own.

Have you no touch of feeling, that your eyes Gloat on a sight so horrible as this? Help metake hold.

As water I am poured out, Yea, all my bones are out of joint, My heart hath become like wax, It is melted within my body, My palate is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; In the dust of death thou dost lay me, For dogs circle me about, The assembly of evil-doers enclose me; They pierce my hands and my feet, I can count all my bones; They stare, they gloat over me.

Will you take yourself out of my room?" He gazed at her, as a malevolent devil might gloat over a soul delivered up for torture.

The troth, plighted (right) and unplighted; A female volt with all her ergs in one gasket; A gloat near a patch of I-told-you-so.

" "And you wrote that letter, you filled me with joy, so that you should gloat over my disappointment?" "Horrid of me, was it not!" said she.

I could hardly wait until morning to gloat over my gentle racer!

of mirth; There's nothing gladsome left on earth; All thoughts and dreams seem vain, O, Save where remote The moonbeams gloat, And sleeps the lovely Jane, O. Until an even when lone he went, Gnawing his beard in dreariment Lo! from a thicket hidden, Lovely as flower In April hour, Steps forth a form unbidden.

I used to ride into the city twice a week regularly after this, and watch for him near his place of business, that I might gloat on his pale, unhappy face.

A fire flickered in the old fireplace, and around its circle gathered nine bandits to count and gloat over the blood money of their victim, as a miser might over his bags of gold.

You know that it is habit with us of Wall Street to gloat over the doctrine of the 'System,' which the people parrot among themselves, the doctrine that the people at large are not affected by our gambling, because they, the people, having no surplus to gamble with, never come into Wall Street.

But withering famine slowly wore, And slowly fell disease did gloat.

He doted on her, and it was always a special joy to him when he could gloat on her unseen.

266 examples of  gloat  in sentences