266 examples of gloated in sentences

She had a ring on her fingera ring that for months I had gloated over and watched, as I had never watched and gloated over any other beautiful thing in my life.

She had a ring on her fingera ring that for months I had gloated over and watched, as I had never watched and gloated over any other beautiful thing in my life.

Billy also gloated over the portraits of well-known deputy sheriffs and other officers of the law printed in the same charming police paper.

gloated a juvenile gleesome voice in a loud whisper.

"Isn't Andy a crackerjack?" gloated enthusiastic little Tod Smith.

They gloated on her.

But they were exquisitely engraved, quite lovely to look at, and Doc Barrows gloated upon them with scintillating eyes.

Four were killed, and two, Zeid and Khubeib, taken bound to Mecca, whose citizens gloated over their prey.

" This form of reasoning was not illogical, but those who were working in secret for the furtherance of their own ambition, oared little to be convinced, and their myrmidons obeyed them blindly, and gloated over the wild, bombastic language of the demagogic press, which, though they did not understand it, impressed them no less with its inflated phrases.

He beheld the slain with his own eyes, for he traversed all the ground where they lay and gloated over the spectacle as if he were still in the moment of victory; and not even after that did he order them to be buried.]

that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining which the lamp-light gloated o'er She shall press, ah, never more! Then methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.

that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining which the lamp-light gloated o'er She shall press, ah, never more! Then methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.

Mr. Spurrel perfectly gloated, with eyes that seemed ready to devour every thing that passed.

Mary gloated over that garden; he went to a world of trouble with it, he bent over it and weeded it for hours on end; he watered it religiously every night, he even erected miniature forcing frames over some of the vegetable rows, ransacking the remains of the broken-down hamlet for squares of glass or for any pieces large enough for his purpose.

He gloated rapturously over the cake, eating first the half of the walnut meat, which he carefully removed.

Maclay, who went over to the House from the Senate to witness the event, gloated over the defeat in his diary: "Sedgwick, from Boston, pronounced a funeral oration over it.

It was a pretty big take down to my pride I tell you, and made all the worse by the way the three gloated over the letters and over our defeat.

" "I am sorry," gloated O'Brien, "but I shall have to ask you what it was.

I also gloated over the description of that famous London dining-room, known to the art world as the "Peacock Room," designed by Whistler.

The Cardinal guessed their disinclination, and gloated over his triumph.

If he were" The tone of him gloated over the picture of what would happen in that case.

" Again the croaking creature stood and gloated over his victim, then left him to the silence of another long day in the dungeon.

Betrayed by a jealous woman, the Countess Platen, whose overtures he spurned, this too gallant lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, wife of the first of our Georges, was foully done to death in a corridor of the Leine Schloss by La Paten's hired assassins, while she looked smilingly on at his futile struggle for life, and gloated over his dying agonies.

I gloated over the record, with something perhaps of that spirit which may have lurked in my blood, from the time of Jacob, and which, so far, had not evinced itself, except perhaps on that occasion when my ear thrilled to the music of falling gold.

He had naturally lost much of his former vigor, and was therefore somewhat dismayed when a terrible, fire-breathing dragon took up its abode in the mountains near by, where it gloated over a hoard of glittering gold.

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