They are even capable of sneering at a purely platonic friendship which is attempting to preserve the beautiful old Greek spirit.

" Skeelty hung around the town for awhile, sneering at the new electric light plant and insolently railing at any of the natives who would converse with him.

" I felt my cheeks crimson, and I looked up and down the board, but saw only sneering faces.

The latter was sneering and supercilious: Blackwood was vulgarly taunting and insulting, and seems to have provoked Keats the more of the two, though perhaps he considered the attack in the Quarterly to be more detrimental to his literary standing.

I should guess, one of the sneering brothers, the vile Smiths; but I have heard no name mentioned.

A practice of sneering at things American has died only very recently out of English journalism and literature, as any one who cares to consult the bound magazines of the 'seventies and 'eighties may soon see for himself.

And in a low, familiar, sneering voice, he stammered in her face: "Ha! ha!

Many a quarrel have I had with him, when we were rather older boys, and our tallness made us more obnoxious to observation in the blue clothes, because I would not thread the alleys and blind ways of the town with him to elude notice, when we have been out together on a holiday in the streets of this sneering and prying metropolis.

With a cigarette between his teeth, a sneering smile on his lips, he watched, through the open door, the group within.

As he finished speaking he turned and looked squarely into the cold gray eyes of Old Heck who, with Skinny, had entered the Amusement Parlor while Dorsey was talking and heard the Vermejo cattleman's sneering insinuation.

With a sneering laugh he raised his foot and brought it down on the garter, grinding the silver clasp and the satin ribbon under the sole of his shoe.

He forced himself to turn again, as through a mist was aware of his excellency's sneering countenance.

" At this Dwight sneered, was sneering still as he went to give Grandma Gates her ride in the wheel-chair and as he stooped with patient kindness to tuck her in.

He felt that he could not gain an inch on Tarwicadia to save his life, but just as he came up he observed the anxious faces of his comrades and the half-sneering countenances of the savages.

But now, what if he played his last court-card, and Fortune, out of her close-hidden hand, laid down a trump thereon with quiet sneering smile?

"I thought not," said Godfrey, sneering.

His career upon the bench, to which he was soon after elevated, was brilliant, because energetic, and successful, because he never permitted contingencies to thwart a predetermination, and because that coolness and grit which enabled him to whip a second sneering boy while he was yet a youth had become a settled trait of his character.

" "You're dreaming, ses Peter Russet, sneering at 'im.

He never thought of refusingand I would no have you think I am sneering at the man!

There was a sneering challenge on his lips; in his eyes was a look that Aldous knew meant death if Quade moved.

If you don't believe mewhy, ask the lady herself, Billy!" As he spoke, he turned his sneering eyes for the fraction of a second toward Joanne.

"You're too sharp, Bill," he says, sneering like.

And the superciliousness which delighted her in Ross, irritated her in Arthur; for, in him, it seemed a sneering reflection upon the humble and toilsome beginnings of Charles and herself.

He, an Arleigh of Beechgrove, to hear this reprobate sneering at his love!

And then he smiled a languid smile; sneering was ARTHUR'S fault, And he had one squirmy snigger which was worse than an assault.