he answered, with a scornful laugh.

Ah, what a Smile's thereand then that scornful Look'tis great Heavens, who's here? [Sees them.

"Who ever heard of fried egg in the shell?" "I did," cried Ferd, unabashed by the laughter and the scornful glances turned his way.

Are ye so eager to kick within a hangman's noose?" Now hereupon divers growled or muttered threateningly, while others, yawning, would have turned them back to sleep; but striding among them, Beltane stayed them with voice and handand voice was scornful and hand was heavy: moreover, beside him stood Roger and Giles, with Walkyn and Eric of the wry neck.

Lorenzo was openly defiant and scornful of the teachings of the Church, and after his death a French king, Charles VIII, was able to enter Italy and march from end to end of it without opposition.

Colonel Dobbin was knighted by his sovereign, which honour placed his son William in a social position above that of the old school friends who had once been so scornful of him at Swishtail Academy; even above the object of his deepest admiration, George Osborne.

Not only do they become scornful, if they live with scorners; false, if they live with liars; mean, if they live with covetous men; but they will actually catch the very look of their faces.

Infinite in severity to the scornful, the proud, the disobedient: infinite in tenderness to the earnest, the humble, the obedient.

The girls triumphantly asserted that this was a paltry excuse, and let her go, with the scornful assurance that God would not accept as a martyr one who had so little of a martyr's courage.

" Now all this time, while everything was in turmoil about him, Sir Stephen had been standing in proud and scornful silence.

For what can be more unsuitable and unpromising, than to seem serious with those who are not so themselves, or demure with the scornful?

She faced him with a start, never so young and beautiful as nowher blue eyes wide, scornful, and blazing, her cheeks red and lips trembling, like a child ready to cry.

Those jewels!" she declared bitterly, "which we would have been fortunate never to have heard of!" She threw herself back in her chair and showed them a scornful shoulder, compressing indignant lips to a straight, unlovely line, and beating out the devil's tattoo with her slipper.

More slowly soon her heart beat, and she laugh'd, Like echo, at the scornful taunts and jeers; "Scoff on!"

That hand that held the scornful reed Makes all the fiends infernal dread.

My face is meeter for the spit; I am more suitable to shame, And to the taunts of scornful wit: It's no great matter for my name.

Ida had found her life at Laburnum Villa hard enough in all conscience before the night of the concert, but it became still harder after Mr. Joseph's condescending avowal of love to her and her inevitably scornful refusal.

" "As the Pelhams?" "Well, what have you got to say about the Pelhams in that scornful way?" asked Amy, rather indignantly.

"I'm not scornful.

The Scornful Lady, a Comedy; acted with great applause.

It is only when, later on, the bad qualities manifest themselves, that our first judgment as a rule receives its justification and makes good its scornful verdict.

It was a curious way of showing the respect which they entertained for each other's ability; but Sulla was too scornful of Asiatic aid, and Archelaus too loyal to listen to such suggestions.

There is scarce a Man in a red Coat who does not tell me, with a full Stare, he's a bold Man: I see several swear inwardly at me, without any Offence of mine, but the Oddness of my Person: I meet Contempt in every Street, express'd in different Manners, by the scornful Look, the elevated Eye-brow, and the swelling Nostrils of the Proud and Prosperous.

It dashed me a little at first; but I like that scornful way of hers, I own.

you with your haughty head, and your scornful eyes, and your hard, unbending heart?