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Empty things are easier filled than full ones. If he was like them in there, with a religion of his own, I wouldn't have a show. But as it is, I have my hopes." "Oh, it's converting him you are! Tell that to the pigs!" said her mother scornfully. "And now go on; I suppose you're taking a prayer book and a rosary along with you in that picnic basket." "No," said Peggy reluctantly.
I was scarcely prepared for the result of my words upon him; his face flushed, a sudden glow of anger sweeping into his eyes. "You are, indeed, of bold heart," he exclaimed scornfully, "to malign a woman in her absence." "There are women no words can malign," I retorted sharply, stung by his tone, "I opine this Queen of savages belongs to that class.
The tallest man becomes a dwarf beside a rocky giant of the mountain chain, the smallest is a Titan to the swarming ants in the forest. The beggar seizes as a treasure what the rich man scornfully casts aside.
My name is Tito Melema." "Truly?" said Bernardo, rather scornfully, as he took a seat; "I had expected it to be at least as long as the names of a city, a river, a province, and an empire all put together. We Florentines mostly use names as we do prawns, and strip them of all flourishes before we trust them to our throats."
At Smyrna itself the exile was received with delirium, with cries of "Messhiach! Messiah!" which he would not acknowledge, but to which Melisselda responded with seductive smiles. His aged father fell upon his neck. "The souls depart," said Sabbataï, kissing him. "But they return." He was brought before the Cadi, who demanded a miracle. "Thou askest a miracle?" said Sabbataï scornfully.
"Which are never to be realized," interrupted Borodaile, laughing scornfully. "Ah, indeed!" said Lord St. George, seriously. "Well, at all events he is a very agreeable, unaffected young man: and, by the by, Borodaile, you will meet him chez moi to-day; you know you dine with me?" "Meet Mr. Linden!
One big dark fellow who had lately taken to coming to the gatherings, turned scornfully away, and replied: "Aw shucks! I don't see nodding in it!" but loyalty to Michael prevented others who might have secretly favored this view from expressing it, and the big dark fellow found himself in the minority. And so the work went on.
"How disagreeable of you to put it that way!" The car leaped forward as if spurred by Alaire's mortification. "I wondered how you knew about the French Revolution. 'That Bastilly was some calaboose, wasn't it'?" She quoted his own words scornfully. "I dare say you've had a fine laugh at my expense?" "No!" gravely denied the man.
Under circumstances like these the observant are reminded that no section of the modern community is so scornfully aristocratic as our servants. Their horror of the meanly-apparelled and the humble is beyond the scorn of kings.
The duchess waited till the door was shut, and then turned to me as if about to speak, but I was beforehand with her; and I began: "Forgive me for speaking of the necklace, but I fear it is still missing." The duchess looked at me scornfully. "He gave it to the girl again, I suppose?" she asked.
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