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Ishmael listened, sorry that even a rabbit should suffer on this night of nights, and was glad when the screaming wavered and died into a merciful stillness. As he dropped asleep the sardonic laughing bark of a full-fed fox came echoing from the earn. Full summer had come, and with it Miss Grey.
His eyes too, were the eyes of a master, twinkling a little as to their light, but steady as to their direction, being fixed on Maddox. He was smiling. There was nothing malignant, or bitter, or sardonic about that smile. No devilry of delight at their confusion. No base abandonment of the whole countenance to mirth, but a curious one-sided smile, implying delicacies, reservations.
Thenceforward, Buffalo-coat was grim; his admonitions to the horses were a trifle more emphatic; once he whistled a fragment of a minor stave, but spoke not a word till the coach reached the tavern-door. "You can drive to Mr. Lee's house," said Greenleaf. "Want to go where he is?" replied Jehu, with a sardonic grin. "Wal, I'm goin' past the meetin'us, and I'll set ye down at the graveyard."
At any rate, Erasmus owns that Grocyn's sardonic comment, "It is the way with you scholars," stuck in his mind even when he returned to Paris, and made him forward to the Archbishop a perfectly new translation of the 'Iphigenia.
Greenough?" he concluded in a business-like tone. "You are not doing the story, Mr. Banneker. Tommy Burt is." "I'm not writing it? Not any of it?" "Certainly not. You're the hero" there was a hint of elongation of the first syllable which might have a sardonic connotation from those pale and placid lips "not the historian. Burt will interview you." "A Patriot reporter has already.
"Carolus," said the old lady to the sardonic affianced of her daughter, "there are three thousand men in the British army." "Yes, my aunt." "There are three thousand men in the British army," she repeated, looking round angrily as though somebody had questioned the truth of her statement.
As he repeated this proverb, the workman uttered his usual sardonic laugh. "Lambernier," said the artist, in a serious tone, "I have heard of certain very strange speeches that you have made within the last few days. Do you know that there is a punishment by law for those who invent calumnies?" "Is it a calumny, when one can prove what he says?" replied the carpenter, with assurance.
At length a convulsive movement crossed the brow of the Constable, and Guarine, when he beheld a sardonic smile begin to curl Vidal's lip, could keep silence no longer. "Vidal," he said, "thou art a "
From her teacher-housemate she had a sardonic description of a Middlewestern railroad-division town, of the same size as Gopher Prairie but devoid of lawns and trees, a town where the tracks sprawled along the cinder-scabbed Main Street, and the railroad shops, dripping soot from eaves and doorway, rolled out smoke in greasy coils.
He was looking at me gravely and intently: at me, or rather at my pink dress sardonic comment on which gleamed in his eye.
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