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She saw in it a
contemptuous
allusion to her own knowledge; and she invented and uttered a phrase in retaliation which should revenge the pain he had caused her.
Only in the Northern Beetle, in a facetious feuilleton about the singer Drabanti who had lost his voice, were a few
contemptuous
remarks interpolated about Koznyshev's book, indicating that it had long ago been condemned by everybody and consigned to general ridicule.
They threw themselves toward the shaft, they crushed through the narrow door to the ladder passage; while an old groom who had prudently led back the horses to the stable, looked at them with an air of
contemptuous
indifference, accustomed to spend nights in the pit and certain that he could eventually be drawn out of it.
But Pierronne, grown calm, held her own against this abuse, very
contemptuous
in the assurance that she was the best looking and the richest.
And he went off to catechize the Levaques in their turn, so carried away by his dream of the final triumph of the Church, and so
contemptuous
of facts, that he would thus go through the settlements without charities, with empty hands amid this army dying of hunger, being a poor devil himself who looked upon suffering as the spur to salvation.
Then, as the same
contemptuous
silence greeted his provocations, he turned furiously on Catherine.
She had come back to the middle of the room, and was now looking at him; she addressed him with
contemptuous
familiarity in a last cry of rage:"And you, do you talk of going back to the pit, too, after driving us out of the bloody place!
When he did come, she showed herself cold and almost
contemptuous.
I am wandering ...Well, you understand what you must do; be gentle, polite, never
contemptuous
with these vulgar personages, I implore you on my knees: they are to be the arbiters of our destiny.
There is the man who will be least
contemptuous
of me, if, as I suppose, my question about Mademoiselle de La Mole's mourning should prove a blunder.'Mathilde was looking at him with a singular expression.
K. heard the maid out thoughtfully, and then looked back at the shocked Mrs. Grubach in a way that was almost
contemptuous.
Sarah viewed the approach of her countrymen with a smile of
contemptuous
indifference; for she even undervalued the personal appearance of men whom she thought arrayed in the unholy cause of rebellion.
"Do you call the rout of those irregulars and these sluggish Hessians a deed to boast of?" said the other with a
contemptuous
smile.
A
contemptuous
smile flitted across Injun Joe's face.
He roared out scoundrels and villains by the dozen, clenched his fist and shook it expressively at the object of his indignation; but Mr. Jingle only answered with a
contemptuous
smile, and replied to his menaces by a shout of triumph, as his horses, answering the increased application of whip and spur, broke into a faster gallop, and left the pursuers behind.
If Mr. Pott had a weakness, it was, perhaps, that he was rather too submissive to the somewhat
contemptuous
control and sway of his wife.
'Upon my word, Sir!'Mr. Pott winced beneath the
contemptuous
gaze of his wife.
Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the
contemptuous
air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
'"YOU a miserable man!" said the king of the goblins, in a more
contemptuous
tone than before.
'"Confound his impudence!" said my uncle, bestowing a very
contemptuous
look on the dying heir of Filletoville.
'Foolish fellow.''Oh, it's worse than foolish; it's downright sneaking, you know,' replied Lowten, nibbing the pen with a
contemptuous
face.
Lestrade and I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a definite end.
It was rather a wish of distinction, she believed, which produced his
contemptuous
treatment of every body, and his general abuse of every thing before him.
To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of;--and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty--which no indignant, no
contemptuous
look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much--I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it.--But
To remain silent and dignified in his presence; from time to time to irritate him by affected disdain, by a
contemptuous
word; to provoke him to threats and violence which would produce a contrast with her own resignation--such was her plan.
"There is someone, then, concealed here whose throat this amiable lady is desirous of cutting," said de Winter, in an ironical,
contemptuous
tone.
Hearing her husband's step she stopped and looked at the door, vainly trying to assume a severe and
contemptuous
expression.
'Go into the study, you can talk things over there.''That would do very well, – or wherever you like,' remarked Ryabinin with
contemptuous
dignity, as if to show them that though others might find it difficult to know how to behave with different people, yet for him no difficulty of any kind could ever exist.
At that moment Captain Yashvin, a tall man with a fine figure, entered the room, and having given a
contemptuous
backward nod to the two officers he came up to Vronsky.
In Karenin's soul, however, despite the complete and
contemptuous
indifference he thought he felt for his wife, there was one feeling left with regard to her: an objection to her being in a position to unite unhindered with Vronsky, so making her crime advantageous to her.
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