556 examples of scornfully in sentences

A thousand men came swiftly to their deaths, for the two hosts arrayed themselves proudly one against the other, and strove right scornfully.

the aged one asks courteously, 'and if not, wilt thou be mine?'" "I tremble, because he does not seem to notice that he is eighty or ninety and I but fifteen, yet I fear if I reject him too scornfully and speedily the Yellow House will never be mine.

"Who wants to 'debut' together or any other way," sniffed Nancy scornfully.

He had the power of gaining wealth, like the hero of the Jew of Malta; yet he used it scornfully, and in sad irony left what remained to him of a large property to found a hospital for lunatics.

"Carmen's the biggest goose in camp," she said scornfully.

Then, as Agony lay there, her favorite heroines of history and fiction seemed to rise up and repudiate herRobert Louis Stevenson, with whom she had formed an imaginary comradeship; there he stood looking at her scornfully and coldly; Joan of Arc, her especial heroine; she turned away in disgust; so all the others; one by one they reproached her.

He stopped and flung me back the parchment scornfully; but I folded it and slipped it in my pocket, brooding all the while over a strange thought that his last words had brought to me.

John laughed scornfully.

" "Look at his eyes," said Jim. Miss Evans looked, and meeting Mr. Carter's steady gaze tossed her head scornfully and endeavored to stare him down.

An Indian woman will scornfully refuse to wash an article that might be needed by a white familyand the next moment, declare that she had not washed her face in fifteen years!

So busy, nice, curious wits, make that insupportable in all vocations, trades, actions, employments, which to duller apprehensions is not offensive, earnestly seeking that which others so scornfully neglect.

It is not usual", I added scornfully, "to pay before one is served.

Among them was a great spirit, who lay scornfully submitting himself to the fiery shower, as though it had not yet ripened him.

"He will do anything I ask him," she said.' 'Miss Trinder must be an extraordinary young person,' observed Lesbia, scornfully.

' 'Girls in our rank of life can't afford to marry noble hearts,' said Lesbia, scornfully.

She picked up the sovereign scornfully, and turned it over.

Blifil scornfully rejected his hand, and with an insulting illusion to the misfortune of Jones's birth provoked the latter to blows.

"I wouldn't ask them a favour for the worldthey're just waiting for a chance to be hateful to me," she scornfully declared; but it pained her that her boy, should be so near, yet inaccessible, and for the first time she was visited by unwonted questionings as to her share in the misfortunes that had befallen her.

Hermia laughed but the Countess Olga's narrowed eyes passed Hilda scornfully.

"By all means," said Miss Ashhurst scornfully.

One of her hands was clenched on the balustrade and her dark eyes regarded him scornfully.

As she brushed the cheek his lips touched: "Hardly," scornfully, and then, with a laugh, "I lied, that's all.

" "About what?" "Me." "Oh!" scornfully.

Nina repeated scornfully.

" She flung that out as a challenge, tossing her head scornfully, but nevertheless watching with frightened eyes her sister's face.

556 examples of  scornfully  in sentences