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It was highly amusing to hear him speak of the famous Naudet, full of disdain for the millions turned over by that speculator, 'millions that would some day fall upon his nose, said Malgras.
"The inscriptions enable me to pass my time," said the old man; "what more would the whole literature of China do?" "And from these inscriptions," said I, "what a book it is in your power to make, whenever so disposed. 'Translations from the crockery literature of China. Such a book would be sure to take; even glorious John himself would not disdain to publish it." The old man smiled.
"When the wear and tear of time becomes visible in my underwear it must be relegated to Reuben." "But Reuben's affinity for patches may be no stronger than your own, Uncle Horace," said Evadne mischievously. Mr. Everidge waved his sock-capped hands with a gesture of disdain.
No wonder philosophers are dazzled by it still, and no wonder they look with some disdain at the low earth of feeling from which the goddess launched herself aloft. But woe to her if she return not home to its acquaintance; Nirgends haften dann die unsicheren Sohlen every crazy wind will take her, and, like a fire-balloon at night, she will go out among the stars.
It seemed as if this woman's disdain for the plotting villain into whose power she had fallen absorbed every other feeling. Victor Carrington waited in vain for some reply from those scornful lips; but none came. He took out his cigar-case, lighted a cigar, and sat in a meditative attitude, smoking, and looking down moodily at the black chasm below the base of the tower.
A man who is born to social equality with the best of his community, and accustomed in his earlier years to its enjoyment, does not feel the sting of attempted exclusion, but is rather made pleasantly conscious of the prestige which inspires the adverse effort and can look upon its bitterness in a spirit of lofty disdain.
I've got my right foot in the grave, and I reckon yours is not far off; and what we've both got to do now is to see that we make a good ending for our souls." "At all events, you don't refuse to take her for a week or two?" asked Emmanuel innocently. "Did I say I refused? Did I send her up stairs as the nighest road to the street-door?" retorted his sister with disdain.
Far from feeling utterly crushed and humiliated by Marian's accusations, Judith was filled with lofty disdain of Marian's far-fetched attempt to discredit her. "I suppose I ought to feel dreadfully cut up over being accused of theft," she said, "but I can't. The whole business seems positively unreal. Jane, do you believe it was the ignoble Noble who overheard us talking that night?"
His Reverence didn't disdain to drink a glass with them now and then, and talk over the news, although he didn't care for it to be mentioned later on that he had been there. Quite a sociable man, that priest, and not so strict as Sophia by a long way. Mr. Tiralla felt quite friendly towards him. He wouldn't cast his wickedness in his teeth. Ah, Sophia really did exaggerate.
"You are a couple of ghosts after Joe and his belongings, you two. Speak louder, I say, young fellow. You don't expect me to hear that penny-whistle of yours," he would say, chuckling at them, with a mixture of pride and disdain. They amused him by their dulness and silence, and personal awe of him.
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