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

They gloated on her.

Theocles was enthroned in the chair of honour, his beard manifesting evident traces of the depilatories administered by Leaena, who nevertheless sat by his side, her voluptuous face gloating over the anticipated banquet of agony.

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

The amount of liquor consumed was portentous; and I gloated with an unholy joy as I saw man after man rapidly making himself what diplomatists call a quantité negligéable.

Passion, the lust for revenge, the bully streak in him that gloated at the sight of some one young and fine trembling before him: all these were factors contributing to the same end.

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.

Then, as these fine folk stood waiting and gloating among the festoons of their balcony, the devil or God (I know which, but I will not say, lest I be thought a blasphemer) put an intent into my heart.

There was something so fiendishly gloating in the councilor's attitude, in his face, in the hot glow of his eyes, that for a moment Nathaniel's involuntary liking for the little old man before him turned to abhorrence.

It is hate, the gloating of revenge; there can be no other

And now the charge was over, the huge chief-justice leaned back panting and gloating on the prisoner.

But he took the whole thing to himself, and gloated like a child over his own cleverness.

With unimaginable eagerness did both Zaleski and I seize, morning after morning, and evening after evening, on these budgets, to gloat for long hours over the ever-lengthening tale of death.