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Such was the image that rose before her; and while it roused at one moment all her fiercer passions into madness, humbled, with the next, her vanity into the dust. She, who knew the ruling passion of Welford, saw at a glance the object of scorn and derision which she had become to him.
"Not actively rude but, worse still, passively rude." "He is the only man I've ever seen with whom I could imagine myself falling in love," said Mrs. Brindley. Mildred laughed in derision. "Why, he's a dead man!" cried she. "You don't understand," said Cyrilla. "You've never lived with a man." She forgot completely, as did Mildred herself, so completely had Mrs.
The barbarian army stood on the eastern side of the river, and there being a bend of the river westward in that part of it, where it was easiest forded, Lucullus, while he led his army on in haste, seemed to Tigranes to be flying; who thereupon called Taxiles, and in derision said, "Do you not see these invincible Romans flying?"
They waged no war against him as a wit, for he was not inferior; but as an architect, he was the object of their keenest derision, particularly for his celebrated work of the stupendous palace of Blenheim, erected for the Duke of Marlborough in accordance with the vote of a grateful nation. Swift was a satirist, therefore no true critic; and his disparagement of Blenheim arose from party-feeling.
It would now be he who could laugh and shoot the shafts of derision. The friend had, in a weak hour, spoken with sobs of his own death. He had delivered a melancholy oration previous to his funeral, and had doubtless in the packet of letters, presented various keepsakes to relatives. But he had not died, and thus he had delivered himself into the hands of the youth.
Fifty-five locks in a day's journey was pretty well tantamount to trudging the whole distance on foot, with the canoes upon our shoulders, an object of astonishment to the trees on the canal side, and of honest derision to all right-thinking children. To pass the frontier even in a train is a difficult matter for the Arethusa. He is somehow or other a marked man for the official eye.
In this mood it's one, in that, the other; and the silly world bleats it after them, like sheep." "Well, if you wish me to put it more plainly: if what you say were true, vice would be condoned." "Vice!!" he cried with derision, and sat up and faced her. "Vice! my dear Mada! sweet, innocent child! ... No, no.
Fortunately he was detained in Cæsarea, when Nero in Rome put to death the Christians in his own gardens with exquisite cruelty, and added mockery and derision to their sufferings. Had he been brought to Rome then, no angels could have saved his life, and no power could have protected him for two years.
Our people intend to abide by the Monroe Doctrine and to insist upon it as the one sure means of securing the peace of the Western Hemisphere. The Navy offers us the only means of making our insistence upon the Monroe Doctrine anything but a subject of derision to whatever nation chooses to disregard it.
Then she laughed in derision and called out loudly to the guards: "Ho, there! Take out this young man and drive him forth! Let him return when he has another treasure to offer me!" So the guards dragged Danilo out and drove him away. With no more gold, with no more magic cap, Danilo returned to his father's house. "Perhaps there are other treasures hidden away," he thought. "I'll search further."
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